Orson Welles: Volume 2: Hello Americans
by Simon Callow
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Author: Simon CallowEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-08-17
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: Viking Adult
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Summary: 5 Stars
Once again Simon Callow delivers a compelling account of the life (or should I say lives) of Orson Welles beyond Kane. Continuing where the last volume (The Road to Xanadu) left off, Callow explains how Welles lost control of The Magnificent Ambersons and ultimately his own career right up until his abandonment of Hollywood and his exile to Europe in 1947.
Outside of the movies Callow goes into detail (at times possibly too much for this reader) about Welles fledgling political career, but there are no complaints about how his theatre work, Around the World in 80 Days being a particular delight, is handled, or the roles in the Stranger and Journey into Fear, let alone his marriage to that mercurial beauty, Rita Hayworth and The Lady from Shanghi.
Callow takes us into the life of Welles, no one could take us into the man, where possibilities are endless and projects are begun and then discarded like broken Christmas toys. This is Welles large as life there on the page, it's a seminal work of a flawed genius; a man who time and again, ran from his pictures to let others complete what he started, sometimes because they gave him no choice and increasingly because he gave them none.
In short this is a fabulous continuation of what is becoming the definitive (there will be a third and final volume) Welles biography I couldn't recommend it to fans or lovers of film more highly.
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