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Maybe one of those soldiers could have come home and saved her from her sad, passive fate. But If This Was Happiness makes such a possibility seem unlikely. Barbara Leaming, who has also written biographies of Roman Polanski and Orson Welles (Rita Hayworth's second husband), argues that Hollywood's...
The principal villain in this piece is the actress's father, an itinerant Spanish dancer named Eduardo Cansino. He recruited his daughter, then barely in her teens, to be his partner in his nightclub act. Leaming contends that he also sexually abused her. The evidence here is spotty, based solely...
The star gets what may be his best laugh in Harlem Nights before he appears. The moment occurs when Eddie Murphy's name flashes in the credits for the fifth time. This may represent the new Hollywood record for authorial egotism. It is, in any case, three more mentions than...
CITIZEN WELLES by Frank Brady (Scribner's; $24.95). Anecdote and scholarship are nicely balanced in this new biography of Orson Welles, whose roller- coaster career in stage, screen and radio covered the spectrum from classics to commercials.
CITIZEN WELLES by Frank Brady (Scribner's; $24.95). Anecdote and scholarship are nicely balanced in this biography of the late Orson Welles, whose roller- coaster career in stage, screen and radio covered the spectrum from classics to commercials.