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Basil Rathbone: His Life and His Films

Autor Michael B. Druxman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2011

Găsim în ediția publicată de BearManor Media un obiect editorial care impresionează prin calitatea vizuală și rigoarea documentării. Formatul generos permite celor peste 250 de fotografii rare să respire, oferind o experiență tactilă și vizuală care completează perfect textul biografic. Tipărirea pe o hârtie ce pune în valoare contrastul imaginilor de arhivă transformă răsfoirea acestui volum într-o incursiune nostalgică în epoca de aur a Hollywood-ului.

Credem că forța acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea lui Michael B. Druxman de a-l extrage pe Basil Rathbone din umbra protectoare, dar limitativă, a personajului Sherlock Holmes. Deși interpretarea sa rămâne definitivă pentru mulți fani ai detectivului din Baker Street, autorul ne poartă prin deceniile în care Rathbone a fost „ticălosul suprem” al ecranului, înfruntându-i pe Errol Flynn sau Gary Cooper. Putem afirma că rigoarea cercetării este vizibilă în analiza tranziției de la succesul shakespearian de pe Broadway — care i-a adus un premiu Tony și două nominalizări la Oscar — către rolurile din producțiile de groază ale anilor '60.

Complementar lucrării England's Secret Weapon, care se concentrează pe dimensiunea politică a filmelor cu Holmes, volumul lui Druxman oferă o perspectivă biografică mult mai intimă și exhaustivă. Față de The Curse of Sherlock Holmes, care explorează resentimentul actorului față de rolul său cel mai faimos, această ediție echilibrează succesul comercial cu realizările sale artistice în teatrul clasic și în înregistrările audio de excepție din operele lui Edgar Allan Poe. În contextul operei lui Druxman, care a dedicat piese de teatru unor figuri precum Gable sau Flynn, acest volum confirmă fascinația autorului pentru dualitatea dintre imaginea publică de „star” și complexitatea interioară a actorului de compoziție.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781593936594
ISBN-10: 1593936591
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: BearManor Media

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To the average moviegoer, the name of Basil Rathbone conjures up an image of fiction's most famous detective - Sherlock Holmes. Certainly, of all the actors who have played the Baker Street sleuth, his interpretation was definitive. Yet, for cinema aficionados, the actor was much more than the personification of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character. He began his film career in 1921 in Innocent, which was one of several silent films in which he appeared. He was also Mr. Murdstone in David Copperfield, Richard III in Tower of London, Louis XI in If I Were King, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, Captain Estaban Pasquale in The Mark of Zorro, Sir Guy of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood, and Baron Wolf von Frankenstein in Son of Frankenstein. For most of his years in motion pictures, Rathbone was the victim of type casting. During the 1930s, he was known as the screen's ultimate villain, constantly in demand by producers to carry out dastardly deeds against such heroes as Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper, and Leslie Howard. He also appeared opposite such leading ladies as Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Loretta Young, Olivia de Havilland, and Joan Crawford. Rathbone earned Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performances as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1936) and as King Louis XI in If I Were King (1938). He portrayed Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in an Old Time Radio series. His later career included roles on Broadway, as well as television work. He received a Tony Award in 1948 as Best Actor in a Play. Through the 1950s and 1960s, he appeared on television as a panelist on the game show The Name's the Same (in 1954), and he also took roles in cheap film thrillers of far lesser quality, such as The Black Sleep (1956), Queen of Blood (1966), The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966), Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967, also featuring Lon Chaney Jr and John Carradine.), and his last film, a low-budget, Mexican horror film called Autopsy of a Ghost (1968). He is also known for his spoken word recordings, including his interpretation of Clement C. Moore's "The Night Before Christmas." Rathbone's readings of the stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe are collected together with readings by Vincent Price in Caedmon Audio's The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection on CD. Rathbone also made many other recordings, of everything from a dramatised version of Oliver Twist to a recording of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf (with Leopold Stokowski conducting) to a dramatised version of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. On television he appeared in two musical versions of Dickens's A Christmas Carol: one in 1954, in which he played Marley's Ghost opposite Fredric March's Scrooge, and the original 1956 live-action version of The Stingiest Man In Town, in which he starred as a singing Ebenezer Scrooge. In the 1960s, he also toured with a one-man show titled (like his autobiography) In and Out of Character. In this show, he recited poetry and Shakespeare, as well as reminisced about his life and career. He appeared with Vincent Price and Boris Karloff, in Tower of London (1939) and The Comedy of Terrors (1964). The latter was the only film to feature the "Big Four" of American International Pictures' horror films: Out-of-print for over thirty-five years, Michael B. Druxman's Basil Rathbone: His Life and His Films is a carefully researched work that thoroughly examines the life and professional career of one of Hollywood's most respected character actors. This new edition includes an Introduction by the author, a Biography, Filmography, and more than 250 rare photographs.