Download or read book Gielgoodies written by Jonathan Croall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A glorious compendium of John's scintillating irreverences and fabulous faux pas... He was one of the greatest of all theatrical personalities, and these utterly characteristic throwaway squibs bring him vividly back to life.' Simon Callow This delicious feast of "Gielgoodies", compiled by Gielgud's biographer, reveals a less well-known side to this celebrated man of the theatre: his lightning wit, his love of scandal and gossip, his wicked delight in putting down his fellow-artists, his relish of bawdy humour. Full of startling new material, drawn from many unpublished letters and Jonathan Croall's extensive interviews, the book also celebrates the man who dropped a thousand bricks. Gielgud's excruciating gaffes were legendary, and here are both the famous and the unknown, collected in all their glory. Whether committed backstage, in the wings or in rehearsals, on film sets or in television studios, they bring this merry and much-loved man vividly to life.
Download or read book In Search of Gielgud written by Jonathan Croall and published by . This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While putting together his widely praised biography of the great classical actor, Jonathan Croall talked to more than a hundred actors, directors and designers. In Search of Gielgud: A Biographer's Tale is the diary he kept during his exhaustive research. In it he records their revealing personal memories, most of them previously unpublished, of Gielgud on stage, in rehearsal, and off duty. Among those he interviewed were stars such as Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dorothy Tutin, Dirk Bogarde, Richard Briers, Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen, Simon Russell Beale and Anna Carteret; playwrights Edward Albee, David Storey, Christopher Fry, Charles Wood and Hugh Whitemore; leading directors Peter Brook, Bill Gaskill and John Schlesinger; and designers Jocelyn Herbert, Tanya Moiseiwitsch, and Margaret Harris of Motley. The book also charts the many problems the author had to overcome to prevent the biography from being abandoned, notably a sustained attack by a rival biographer, the wayward behaviour of an elusive editor, and the unpredictable attitude to the book of Gielgud himself.
Download or read book John Gielgud Directs Richard Burton in Hamlet written by Richard L. Sterne and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1968 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Gielgud Matinee Idol to Movie Star written by Jonathan Croall and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 1007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his lifetime Gielgud was acclaimed as the finest classical actor of the twentieth century and Jonathan Croall's biography from 2000 was instantly recognised by critics as a masterful achievement, one that was 'unlikely to be surpassed' (Sunday Telegraph). Since that time however a considerable amount of new material has come to light and the passing of time has allowed a new candour. John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star sees this peerless biographer return to his subject to offer the definitive life of Gielgud. For this new biography Croall's exhaustive research has included over a hundred new interviews with key people from his life and career, several hundred letters from Gielgud that have never been published, scores of letters written to him and archived versions of his film and television work. As Gielgud worked increasingly in this medium during the last third of his life much greater attention is given to this than in the earlier work. Fresh light is thrown on his professional relationships with figures such as Laurence Olivier and Edith Evans, and on turbulent episodes of his private life. The overall result is a a much more rounded, candid and richly textured portrait of this celebrated and complex actor.
Download or read book Sir John Gielgud written by John Gielgud and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with the centenary of Gielgud's birth, this is the remarkable autobiography of one of the greatest actors of the 20th century, seen through his frank, mesmerizing, and intimate letters. of photos. Line drawings.
Download or read book In Search of Theater written by Eric Bentley and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written between 1946 and 1952, and first published in 1953. It is now widely regarded as the standard portrait of the European and American theater in the turbulent and seminal years following World War II; but it is far more than that. It ranges back as far as Ibsen and even Shakespeare, and has contributed very substantially to a number of reputations that would long outlast 1950, such as those of Bertolt Brecht, Charles Chaplin and Martha Graham. For Bentley fans, it is an essential link in a chain that runs from The Playwright as Thinker to The Life of the Drama to The Brecht Memoir and Thinking About the Playwright.
Download or read book John Gielgud written by and published by . This book was released on 193? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Gielgud written by Gyles Brandreth and published by History Press. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the life of John Gielgud through interviews and personal accounts This book is a celebration of the life and work of a unique actor, film star, director and raconteur. The author draws on his own conversations with Gielgud over 30 years (written with Gielgud's blessing), plus previously unpublished contributions from a host of friends and colleagues.
Download or read book An Actor and His Time written by John Gielgud and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed British actor looks back on his long career in the theater and recalls the many great actors and actresses with whom he has worked
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 John Gielgud Archive at the Mander Mitchenson Theatre Collection written by Sir John Gielgud and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Performing King Lear written by Jonathan Croall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Lear is arguably the most complex and demanding play in the whole of Shakespeare. Once thought impossible to stage, today it is performed with increasing frequency, both in Britain and America. It has been staged more often in the last fifty years than in the previous 350 years of its performance history, its bleak message clearly chiming in with the growing harshness, cruelty and violence of the modern world. Performing King Lear offers a very different and practical perspective from most studies of the play, being centred firmly on the reality of creation and performance. The book is based on Jonathan Croall's unique interviews with twenty of the most distinguished actors to have undertaken this daunting role during the last forty years, including Donald Sinden, Tim Pigott-Smith, Timothy West, Julian Glover, Oliver Ford Davies, Derek Jacobi, Christopher Plummer, Michael Pennington, Brian Cox and Simon Russell Beale. He has also talked to two dozen leading directors who have staged the play in London, Stratford and elsewhere. Among them are Nicholas Hytner, David Hare, Kenneth Branagh, Adrian Noble, Deborah Warner, Jonathan Miller and Dominic Dromgoole. Each reveals in precise and absorbing detail how they have dealt with the formidable challenge of interpreting and staging Shakespeare's great tragedy.
Download or read book The Lady s Not for Burning written by Christopher Fry and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Thomas Mendip, a discharged soldier, weary of the world and eager to leave it, comes to a small town, announces he has committed murder and demands to be hanged. A philosophical humorist, Thomas is annoyed when the officials oppose his r
Download or read book John Gielgud Camera Studies Etc written by Gordon Anthony and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summer s Lease written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1991-05-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The villa near a small Tuscan town is everything the Pargeter family could want for three weeks. But when the idyll turns sour, Molly Pargeter begins to wonder about their mysterious absentee landlord.
Download or read book Gielgud written by Jonathan Croall and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2001 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on interviews with over 100 friends and colleagues who worked with Gielgud, this biography covers Gielgud's childhood amongst his famous Terry relations, his early struggles as a young actor, his triumphs in Shakespeare at the Old Vic and his late flowering as an Oscar-winning film star.
Download or read book John Gielgud written by Gyles Brandreth and published by . This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
