Claude Rains : an actor's voice / David J. Skal ; with Jessica Rains.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skal, David J.

Contributor:

Rains, Jessica.

Series:

Screen classics (Lexington, Ky.)

Screen classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Actors--United States--Biography.

Actors.

Rains, Claude, 1889-1967.

Rains, Claude.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Late in Claude Rains's distinguished career, a reverent film journalist wrote that Rains ""was as much a cinematic institution as the medium itself."" In Claude Rains: An Actor's Voice, noted Hollywood historian David J. Skal draws on more than thirty hours of newly-released Rains interviews to create the first full-length biography of the actor nominated multiple times for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. This portrait of a universally respected Hollywood legend also benefits from the insights of his daughter, Jessica Rains, who provides firsthand accounts of the enigmatic man b

Contents:

Front cover; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Bloody Idiots Who Couldn't Learn Their Lines; 2 Marriages and Mustard Gas; 3 An Actor Abroad; 4 Invisibility and After; 5 Mr. Rains Goes to Burbank; 6 Now, Contract Player; 7 MacGuffins, Deceptions, Domestic Recriminations; 8 New Stages and Final Curtains; Appendix: The Work of Claude Rains; Notes and Sources; Bibliography; Index; Photographs

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-280) and index.

ISBN:

9786612937316

9780813138855

081313885X

9781282937314

1282937316

9780813172187

0813172187

OCLC:

697175236