Claude Rains: An Actor's Voice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813192611)

Late in Claude Rains's distinguished career, a reverent film journalist wrote that Rains "was as much a cinematic institution as the medium itself." Given his childhood speech impediments and his origins in a destitute London neighborhood, the ascent of Claude Rains (1889-1967) to the stage and screen is remarkable. Rains's difficulties in his formative years provided reserves of gravitas and sensitivity, from which he drew inspiration for acclaimed performances in The Invisible Man (1933), Mr.

Author: David J. Skal, Jessica Rains
ISBN-10: 0813192617
ISBN-13: 9780813192611
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2010
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 8.68h x 5.60w x 1.06d