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Run-Through: A Memoir Hardcover – March 6, 1972

by John Houseman (Author)
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With these incomparably frank and entertaining memoirs, John Houseman's legendary reputation moves beyond the world of knowledgeable theater people to reach all those who are interested in the arts-as well as everyone who simply wants to read a fascinating Life, related by a man of matchless gifts, who writes about himself with wit, a superb gift for anecdotage, a piercing eye for the ridiculous in himself and in others, and the kind of total recall that makes these dazzling memoirs unique among theatrical books.

For years one of the best-known and influential figures in American show business, John Houseman describes with extraordinary self-knowledge and grace a life full of fantastic episodes that took him from a bizarre childhood to a seemingly hopeless and conventional business career to his brilliant début in the world of the theater, in which he became famous for bringing to the American stage such historic and innovative productions as Four Saints in Three Acts, the WPA Federal Theatre's Negro Macbeth and The Cradle Will Rock, and the Mercury's Julius Caesar and Native Son. He is equally well known for his part in such achievements as Citizen Kane (his long description of that great classic of American movie-making is the definitive reportage of an epic event), the Mercury Theatre of the Air (notorious for its broadcast of The War of the Worlds), the film of Julius Caesar, the creation of the Voice of America and Playhouse 90.

Run-through is full of stories-and funny, ribald, admiring-of such figures as Orson Welles, Archibald MacLeish, Alfred Hitchcock, Marc Blitzstein, Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Howard, Martha Graham, Pavel Tecelitchew, David O. Selznick, Richard Wright, all the people with whom John Houseman has had working and nonworking relationships in the course of his long and brilliant career. It is, in the words of Virgil Thomson, "A lovely book!"
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    507 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Simon and Schuster
  4. Publication date
    March 6, 1972
  5. ISBN-10
    0671210343
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0671210342
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon and Schuster; First Edition (March 6, 1972)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 507 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0671210343
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0671210342
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Customer Reviews:
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