Download or read book The Biography of the British Stage written by Thomas Dibdin and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Victorian Actors and Actresses in Review written by Donald Mullin and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1983-10-27 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative and scholarly survey by Donald Mullin, Victorian Actors and Actresses in Review, compiles extensive critical assessments by contemporary reviewers of some 250 British and American players who performed between 1837 and 1901. Backstage
Download or read book Sir Aubrey written by David Rayvern Allen and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Price of Fame written by Elaine Parker and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2018-04-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charming, erudite, and the very personification of the English gentleman, Dennis Price was without doubt also one of the most promising and talented newcomers to the world of theatre and film in the late 1930s, and he arguably reached his screen best in the classic Ealing comedy 'Kind Hearts and Coronets'. Huge praise was lavished upon him and he was compared alongside theatrical contemporaries Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson as being destined for great things. Scene-stealing performances followed over the next few decades in such differing films as 'The Dancing Years', 'The Intruder', 'Private's Progress', 'The Naked Truth', 'Tunes of Glory', 'Tamahine' and 'Theatre of Blood', to name but a few. Though whilst his career was blossoming his private life was going through turmoil when, after one of his several affairs was discovered by his wife, he faced the shame of divorce, separation from his two children and when coupled with significant tax bills, it all proved too much and the actor attempted suicide. Eventually bouncing back, he reinvented himself as a character actor and appeared in scores of notable films-and was often the best thing in them!
Download or read book Spencer Tracy a Life in Pictures written by New England Vintage Film Inc. Society and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spencer Tracy simply was every character he played on the silver screen. He was known as the actors-actor, a master of his craft. As members of the Tracy Family, we arte grateful to Brenda Loew for putting together this amazing photo book of Spencer Tracy for all the world to enjoy. His memory and legacy live on in this intimate portrait of a man and a life that was fully lived. - Cyndi Tracy & the Spencer Tracy Family The minute you see Spencer Tracy on the screen you are immediately transfi xed on his humanity. Whether he plays a poor man, a wise-cracking sportswriter, the father of the bride, or the defender of a great cause, in the end, Spencer Tracy truly is the heroic Santiago from Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea, courageously battling the sharks that would tear apart his dignity and life's work. No other actor had his gift. - Upton Bell, New England radio and television talk show host whose mother, Broadway actress and comedienne Frances Bell, starred with Eddie Cantor in Whoopee! and the Ziegfeld Follies of 1928, in the early talkie Night Work, and in one of the first experimental television broadcasts in New York City with Gertrude Lawrence and Lionel Atwill. She was a great admirer of Tracy when he was on the New York stage. _______________ Spencer Tracy, A Life in Pictures: Rare, Candid and Original Photos of the Hollywood Legend, His Family, and Career presents a unique and compelling portrait of the man, his career, and family, including rare imagesof his marriage to actress Louise Treadwell and their two children: John, who was born deaf, and Susie. More than 300 rare, candid and original images in this edition illustrate how Spencer Tracy's life, family and career touched people in every corner of the world. Combining a unique mixture of original news service photographs, celebrity stills, and rare, candid, and unique snapshots, this dazzling collection of over three hundred images, Spencer Tracy, A Life in Pictures: Rare, Candid and Original Photos of the Hollywood Legend, His Family and Career captures the life and legacy of a Golden Age Hollywood legend, onscreen and off. One of the most versatile and popular movie stars of the twentieth century, Spencer Tracy's life and career spanned sixty-seven tumultuous years of twentieth-century American history, including two world wars, the Great Depression, technological advances, the emergence of the nuclear age, the cold war, and the rise of the women's and civil rights movements. Behind the scenes, two-time Academy Award-winner Spencer Tracy faced personal and professional challenges without parallel or precedent. Books and articles are still being written today in an attempt to explain the mystique surrounding the Spencer Tracy legend. His story is an inspiring legacy.
Download or read book Charles Laughton a Difficult Actor written by Simon Callow and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He worked with De Mille, Korda, Hitchcock, Renoir, Guthrie, Lean, and Wilder. He collaborated with Brecht and Losey on the first production of Galileo. His career spanned fifty films and forty stage roles. And his Hunchback, Henry VIII, and Captain Bligh remain the stock-in-trade of countless mimics. No previous account of the difficult, ugly, magnetic genius of Charles Laughton has approached the depth and quality of Simon Callow's magnificent biography, which spans the actor's early years in England at his parents' seaside hotel, through the West End, Hollywood, and Broadway, to his final climactic assumption of the role of Lear at Stratford. As a fellow actor, Callow is able to recreate each of Laughton's performances, however eccentric or mundane, with complete understanding. Callow's empathy with Laughton embraces both his professional struggles and his lifelong battle to come to terms with his homosexuality and his thirty-year marriage to Elsa Lanchester. Writing with wit and passion, Callow packs the book with the fascinating fruits of his research--conversations with surviving friends and lovers, contemporary articles and reviews, and illuminating assessments of Laughton's craft based on the study of every extant foot of film. Callow gets right inside the skin of Laughton and shows us the truth behind this legend in his own lifetime who nonetheless counted himself a failure."--Dust jacket.
Download or read book John Gielgud written by Sheridan Morley and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir John Gielgud's acting career was among the most distinguished of his generation. Now, in this insightful biography, Morley traces not only the actor's career, but also gives a refreshingly frank look into Gielgud the man, and how his professional success as an actor often came at the expense of his personal happiness. 48 photos.
Download or read book The Elephant to Hollywood written by Michael Caine and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider's view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second act When he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts being sent his way were worse and worse. When one script really disappointed, he called the producer to complain about the part. The producer said, "No, no, we don't want you for the lover, we want you for the father." Salvation came in the unlikely form of his old friend Jack Nicholson, who convinced him to give acting one more shot. What followed was not only an incredible personal transformation but also one of the most radical comebacks in film history. Learning to accept his new role both on camera and in his own life, Caine went on to win his second Oscar, be knighted by the queen, and deliver some of his best performances to date. Now he shares the spectacular story of his life, from his humble upbringing in London's poverty-stricken Elephant and Castle, his military service, touching marriage and family life, and lively adventures with friends, to legendary meetings with fellow stars, forays as a restaurateur, and hilarious off-screen encounters from his glittering five-decade career. Caine's The Elephant to Hollywood brings his gift for storytelling and his insider's view to a tale that is funny, warm, and deeply honest.
Download or read book Charles Laughton written by Charles Higham and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Noel Coward written by Philip Hoare and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated and controversial dramatists. To several generations, actor, playwright, songwriter, and filmmaker Noël Coward (1899-1973) was the very personification of wit, glamour, and elegance. Given unprecedented access to the private papers and correspondence of Coward family members, compatriots, and numerous lovers, Samuel Johnson Prize-winning biographer Philip Hoare has produced an illuminating and sophisticated biography of Coward, whose relentless drive for success and approval fueled the stunning bursts of creativity that launched the once-painfully middle class boy from the suburbs of London into a pantheon of theatrical deities that includes Gilbert and Sullivan, Oscar Wilde, and George Bernard Shaw. As much the embodiment of a lifestyle as an actual inhabitant of it, Coward’s carefully cultivated image defined the aspirations of untold numbers of actors, artists, and writers who succeeded him, and Hoare’s meticulously researched biography peels away the layers of this complex persona to reveal the man underneath it all, whom The Times of London decreed upon his death to be the most versatile of all the great figures of the English theater.
Download or read book Richard Burton written by Michael Munn and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2008-10-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This all-inclusive biography of Hollywood's original movie star is a fascinating, headlong dive into the complex world of starlets, directors, drugs, and drinking that dominated Burton's rise to the top." "Richard Burton was a man of contradictions. He wanted to escape the mining community of Wales, yet his heart never left it. He wanted to live life to the fullest, but knew that he was drinking himself into an early grave. He was an avid reader and a lover of poetry, yet he seemed to squander his talents and find happiness at the bottom of a beer glass, giving up all hopes of becoming a great actor when he sold his soul to Hollywood and his heart to Elizabeth Taylor." "Munn recounts Burton's darkest thoughts and secrets, revealing hell-raising stories that Hollywood quashed in order to save Burton's early film career-including affairs with Marilyn Monroe and Lana Turner, being caught in a brothel with Errol Flynn, and a fist fight with Frank Sinatra. Covering everything from Burton's early days on the London stage, to his star performance in Broadway's Camelot, to his wild nights in Hollywood, Munn also movingly recalls nursing Burton through an epileptic seizure, and witnessing a terrifying encounter that Burton had with a gangster that ended in violence." "Burton was known for his charisma, his explosive temper, his excessive carousing, and, above all, his stunning command of stage and screen. This in-depth look at the real Richard Burton draws on Munn's friendship with Burton over the years as well as on formal interviews and informal conversations with a great many of the stars who knew and worked with Burton. It is a must-read for any follower of film, history, and the rise of celebrity in America."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Performing Arts Books 1876 1981 written by and published by New York : R.R. Bowker Company. This book was released on 1981 with total page 1726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trevor Howard written by Vivienne Knight and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charmingly illustrated, alluring biography of the florid-and pocky-cheeked, intensely blue-eyed, chin-scarred, sandpaper-throated British actor who early on played romantic leads but quickly fell into more blustery character roles. The hell-raising, hard-drinking, outsized Howard of later years was born of a Lloyds of London underwriter of whom Howard saw little, and of a mother addicted to travel and globe-hopping and who thus exposed Howard and his sister Merla to such exotic places as Ceylon and Colorado. At a loss for a profession, Howard went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, found acting to be work that fit like a glove; and has remained a dedicated professional ever since. His first ten years were spent as a stage actor, playing Sheridan, Shaw, Shakespeare, and the moderns; his first film role was as a naval officer in The Way Ahead in 1944, for Carol Reed. He is best remembered for his brilliant first starring role as the romantically beleaguered married doctor in the evergreen classic Brief Encounter (1945). Howard's gifts have been squandered in dozens of feeble films, while some of his best work remains unsung. Childless, his marriage to Helen Cherry has lasted since they first played opposite each other onstage in 1943. He is a determinedly private eccentric (and ex-hell-raiser) who never talks shop offstage. A better than average movie bio.
Download or read book Thomas Betterton written by David Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Restoration London's leading actor and theatre manager Thomas Betterton has not been the subject of a biography since 1891. He worked with all the best-known playwrights of his age and with the first generation of English actresses; he was intimately involved in the theatre's responses to politics, and became a friend of leading literary men such as Pope and Steele. His innovations in scenery and company management, and his association with the dramatic inheritance of Shakespeare, helped to change the culture of English theatre. David Roberts's entertaining study unearths new documents and draws fresh conclusions about this major but shadowy figure. It contextualizes key performances and examines Betterton's relationship to patrons, colleagues and family, as well as to significant historical moments and artefacts. The most substantial study available of any seventeenth-century actor, Thomas Betterton gives one of England's greatest performing artists his due on the tercentenary of his death"--
Download or read book Beeton s Modern European Celebrities A Biography of Continental Men and Women of Note Etc written by Samuel Orchart Beeton and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
