Regular price: $20.97

Membership details Membership details
  • A 30-day trial plus your first audiobook, free.
  • 1 credit/month after trial – good for any book, any price.
  • Easy exchanges – swap any book you don’t love.
  • Keep your audiobooks, even if you cancel.
  • After your trial, Audible is just $14.95/month.
OR
In Cart

People who bought this also bought...

Making Movies audiobook cover art

  • Making Movies

  • By: Sidney Lumet
  • Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
  • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars 42
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars 37
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars 36

One of the greatest directors of all time, Sidney Lumet has made movies that have been nominated for more than 50 Academy Awards. Making Movies is an honest and unflinching look at the business and craft of movie making. Lumet's book reveals the ingredients for the potion that brings movie magic to life and assures one thing: you will never look at movies the same way again.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • One of the better "How To's" of Movie Making.

  • By James M. Patton on 02-12-18
Orson Welles audiobook cover art

  • Orson Welles

  • A Biography
  • By: Barbara Leaming
  • Narrated by: Grace Conlin
  • Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 76
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars 61
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars 61

Genius, artist, monstre sacré, Orson Welles had one of the most brilliant careers in show business. Here he confides his most intimate feelings and recollections of his life. With remarkable detail and intimacy, Barbara Leaming reveals the private Welles: from child prodigy and young lion in Dublin and New York, to the succès de scandale of his The War of the Worlds broadcast; from his auspicious directing debut with the legendary Citizen Kane in his 20s to the sabotage of his further directing career.

  • 3 out of 5 stars

  • Great book; average narration

  • By Karen on 03-21-11
Young Orson audiobook cover art

  • Young Orson

  • The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane
  • By: Patrick McGilligan
  • Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
  • Length: 28 hrs and 4 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 8
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 7
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 7

For the centennial of his birth, the defining wunderkind of modern entertainment gets his due in a groundbreaking new biography of his early years - from his first forays in theater and radio to the inspiration and making of Citizen Kane. No American artist or entertainer has enjoyed a more dramatic rise than Orson Welles. In this magisterial biography, Patrick McGilligan brings young Orson into focus as never before.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • An amazingly interesting and in depth look

  • By kiehn on 07-19-17
The War of the Worlds (Dramatized) audiobook cover art

  • The War of the Worlds (Dramatized)

  • By: Orson Welles
  • Narrated by: Orson Welles
  • Length: 56 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 334
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 304
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 302

On the evening of October 30th, 1938, Earth went to war with Mars. Martians invaded New Jersey! Here is the famous panic-inducing broadcast that shook the world, starring Orson Welles.

  • 4 out of 5 stars

  • Still Creepy after all these Years!

  • By Pamela on 02-21-14
Citizen Kane audiobook cover art

  • Citizen Kane

  • A Filmmaker's Journey
  • By: Harlan Lebo
  • Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
  • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 28
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars 28
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 28

With the 75th anniversary of Citizen Kane in May 2016, Harlan Lebo has written the full story of Orson Welles' masterpiece film. The book explores Welles' meteoric rise to stardom in New York and the real reason behind his arrival in Hollywood and unprecedented contract with RKO Studios for total creative control. It also delves into the dispute over who wrote the script; the mystery of the "lost" final script; and the plot by Hearst to destroy Welles' project through blackmail, media manipulation, and other tactics.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • Book was great. Narrator was an amateur!

  • By katherine on 07-07-16
Robert Altman audiobook cover art

  • Robert Altman

  • The Oral Biography
  • By: Mitchell Zuckoff
  • Narrated by: Robert Altman, Warren Beatty, Cher, and others
  • Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 83
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars 67
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars 68

Robert Altman - visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend - comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • Enthralling!

  • By Wise & Careful Shopper on 10-17-10

Publisher's Summary

In the summer of 1970, legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe and decided it was time to make a comeback movie. It was about a legendary self-destructive director who returns to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe. Welles swore it wasn't autobiographical.

The Other Side of the Wind was supposed to take place during a single day, and Welles planned to shoot it in eight weeks. It took 12 years and remains unreleased and largely unseen.

Orson Welles's Last Movie by Josh Karp is a fast-paced, behind-the-scenes account of the bizarre, hilarious, and remarkable making of what has been called "the greatest home movie that no one has ever seen". Funded by the shah of Iran's brother-in-law and based on a script that Welles rewrote every night for years, it was a final attempt to one-up his own best work. It's almost impossible to tell if art is imitating life or vice versa in the film. It's a production best encompassed by its star, John Huston, who described the making of the film as "an adventure shared by desperate men that finally came to nothing".

©2015 Josh Karp (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

What members say

Average Customer Ratings

Overall

  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    19
  • 4 Stars
    10
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Performance

  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    19
  • 4 Stars
    7
  • 3 Stars
    3
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Story

  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    18
  • 4 Stars
    10
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0