Sabotage
Gavin Millar, 13 September 1990
Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles
by Frank Brady.
Hodder, 655 pp., £18.95, January 1990,0 340 51389 6 Show More
by Frank Brady.
Hodder, 655 pp., £18.95, January 1990,
If this was happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth
by Barbara Leaming.
Weidenfeld, 312 pp., £14.95, September 1989,0 297 79630 5 Show More
by Barbara Leaming.
Weidenfeld, 312 pp., £14.95, September 1989,
Ava’s Men: The Private Life of Ava Gardner
by Jane EllenWayne.
Robson, 268 pp., £14.95, November 1989,0 86051 636 9 Show More
by Jane EllenWayne.
Robson, 268 pp., £14.95, November 1989,
Goldwyn: A Biography
by Scott Berg.
Hamish Hamilton, 579 pp., £16.95, September 1989,0 241 12832 3 Show More
by Scott Berg.
Hamish Hamilton, 579 pp., £16.95, September 1989,
The Genius of the System: Hollywood Film-Making in the Studio Era
by Thomas Schatz.
Simon and Schuster, 514 pp., £16.95, September 1989,0 671 69708 0 Show More
by Thomas Schatz.
Simon and Schuster, 514 pp., £16.95, September 1989,
“... Extravagance and self-indulgence were among the kinder accusations levelled at Orson Welles by industry chiefs. For the most part the charges were unjust. Not only was Welles possibly the most distinguished film artist to be abused and all but broken by the system, and by leading individuals within it (including politicians, newspaper magnates, journalists, gossip-columnists and even critics), he was possibly the least culpable ... ”
