This Is Orson Welles

Biographies & Memoirs

Bogdanovich, Peter

Welles, Orson

Rosenbaum, Jonathan (editor)

Arts & Literature

Harpercollins

The correspondence between Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich reveals Welles's true feelings about films, theater, the radio and television industries, and various Hollywood directors and stars. $25,000 ad/promo.

Bogdonavich, Peter

Humor & Entertainment

Orson Welles the acclaimed filmmaker, radio celebrity, actor, producer, painter, and magician reveals a side few have seen: Orson Welles the master storyteller. Often hailed as a renaissance man of the 20th century, Welles is captured in a legendary series of conversations between himself and director Peter Bogdanovich. 82 photos.

Rosenbaum, Jonathan

Perennial

A witty, madcap, pulp-noir adventure of international intrigue, blackmail, and murder from the legendary director, actor, and writer Orson Welles. With a new introduction on its mysterious creation and tangled history by John Baxter, and available just in time for two Wellesian movie moments: the 55th anniversary of Mr. Arkadin’s first release; and Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles, starring Zac Efron, Claire Danes, and Christian McKay.

Mr. Arkadin: Aka Confidential Report: The Secret Sordid Life of an International Tycoon

Literature & Fiction

United States

Dey Street Books

Innovative film and theater director, radio producer, actor, writer, painter, narrator, and magician, Orson Welles (1915–1985) was the last true Renaissance man of the twentieth century. From such great radio works as "War of the Worlds" to his cinematic masterpieces Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Othello, Macbeth, Touch of Evil, and Chimes at Midnight, Welles was a master storyteller, as expansive as he was enigmatic. This Is Orson Welles, a collection of penetrating and witty conversations between Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, includes insights into Welles's radio, theater, film, and television work; Hollywood producers, directors, and stars; and almost everything else, from acting to magic, literature to comic strips, bullfighters to gangsters. Now including Welles's revealing memo to Universal about his artistic intentions for Touch of Evil, (of which the "director's edition" was released in Fall 1998) this book, which Welles ultimately considered his autobiography, is a masterpiece as unique and engaging as the best of his works.

Da Capo Press

The Citizen Kane Book: Illustrated with Over Forty Stills and Frame Enlargements

Arts & Photography

KAEL, Pauline

Mankiewicz, Herman J.

Performing Arts

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

This is a companion to Citizen Kane - the film that was designed to shock (Kenneth Tynan) - one of the best-known movies in the history of Hollywood. Not only was it Orson Welles's first film as actor and director but most of the cast were also new to the cinema. Yet so controversial was the subject matter that an 842,000 US dollar bribe and concentration wrath of the Hearst newspaper empire combined in an attempt to strangle its distribution. The authorship of the film is still a subject of conflict. Pauline Keal's essay, Raising Kane, dissects a maze of Hollywood lore to re-evaluate these and other stories about the making of this film. Her account is followed by the original screenplay, illustrated with over 40 stills and frame enlargements, together with notes on the difference between the script and the final film.

Citizen Kane

Dramas & Plays

Methuen Drama

Actor, director, producer and writer, Orson Welles wrote this skilful, bizarre novel of white slavery, corruption and contraband spanning the underworlds of two continents...

Mr. Arkadin

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Panther Books

The Trial (Modern Film Scripts)

Simon&Schuster

An illustrated retelling of the Bravade festival held in St. Tropez consists of sketches made by Orson Welles for his daughter in 1956

Les Bravades: A Portfolio of Pictures Made for Rebecca Welles by Her Father

Individual Artists

Workman Pub. Co.

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