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Summary: "This is the story of one week in my life. I was seventeen. It was the week I slept in Orson Welles's pajamas. It was the week I fell in love. and it was the week I changed my middle name twice"--Quotation from back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAPCharyn, Jerome
Summary: "Narrated by a starry-eyed lesbian, Big Red reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles. Set amidst the noir glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age, Big Red reenvisions the life of one of America's most enduring icons: Gilda herself, Rita Hayworth, whose fiery red hair and hypnotic dancing helped make her the quintessential movie star of the 1940s. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHASummary: Looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker. Orson Welles's life was magical: a musical prodigy at age ten, a director of Shakespeare at fourteen, a painter at sixteen, a star of stage and radio at twenty, romances...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAGSummary: What a whirl, what a world! High schooler Richard Samuels lucks into a role in a daring Broadway production of Julius Caesar. Cues, staging, rehearsals, romance, rivalries; he has a lot to learn. And the first thing to learn is never upstage Mercury Theatre's genius director, 22-year-old Orson Welles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ME1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ME
Karp, Josh
Summary: In the summer of 1970 legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe and decided it was time to make a comeback movie. Coincidentally it was the story of a legendary self-destructive director who returns to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe. Welles swore it wasn't autobiographical. The Other Side of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.4 KARSummary: Citizen Kane: The story of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper tycoon whose life is investigated by a magazine reporter trying to discover the meaning of Kane's dying word: "Rosebud".
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CITJaglom, Henry
Summary: "Based on long-lost recordings, a set of riveting and revealing conversations with America's great cultural provocateurThere have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches in the years before Welles died. The tapes, gathering dust in a garage, did indeed exist, and this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 JAGSwaby, Rachel
Summary: Aspiring scientists, young history enthusiasts, and children who enjoy learning about the world will be fascinated by these riveting snapshots--and parents who enjoyed the film Hidden Figures will find this to be the perfect extension. Covering important advancements made by women in fields such as biology, medicine, astronomy, and technology, author Rachel Swaby explains that people aren't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yearling Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SWACallow, Simon
Summary: Traces the life and career of the legendary director, discussing the making of "Citizen Kane," his contributions to such films as "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "The Lady from Shanghai," and his efforts in radio comedy, spectacular theater, and newspaper politics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WELLES, ORSON CALCallow, Simon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 1996