| Description |
xii, 579 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-555) and index. |
| Contents |
Part One: Early Stages 1904-1929. A Terry Childhood -- Gielgud Minor -- Atkins, RADA and Playfair -- Oxford Apprenticeship -- Coward, Chekhov and Komisarjevsky -- Man about Town -- The Search for Stardom -- Mrs Pat and Lilian Baylis -- Part Two: Lord of the West End 1929-1937. The Old Vic -- Matinee Idol -- Young Producer -- Richard of Bordeaux -- Hamlet -- Saint-Denis and The Seagull -- Enter Larry -- A Prince on Broadway -- Part Three: Shakespeare in Peace and War 1937-1948. Actor-Manager -- Binkie, Earnest and Elsinore -- Barker and King Lear -- ENSA and Macbeth -- The Haymarket Season -- Travelling Player -- Part Four: Rise and Fall 1948-1968. Rattigan, Fry and Burton -- Stratford and Peter Brook -- From Hollywood to Hammersmith -- Dark Days -- One Man and His Show -- Othello to Albee -- A Sense of Direction -- Part Five: Indian Summer 1968-2000. Oedipus and Home -- Peter Hall and Pinter -- The Road to Brideshead -- Late Stages -- 'Major Movie Star' -- Swan Songs. |
| Summary |
"On his death John Gielgud was widely acclaimed as the greatest classical actor of the twentieth century, and the finest modern interpreter of Shakespeare. This biography is the first to cover in full an astonishing career, spanning nearly eighty years in films, radio, television and the theatre." "For his entertaining, critical and widely researched book Jonathan Croall has talked in detail to more than a hundred friends and colleagues who worked with Gielgud. They include actors such as Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dorothy Tutin, Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Peter Ustinov, Virginia McKenna, Richard Briers, Anna Carteret and Michael Pennington; the playwrights Edward Albee, Christopher Fry, David Storey and Charles Wood; directors such as Peter Brook, William Gaskill and John Schlesinger; and the designers Tanya Moiseiwitsch, Jocelyn Herbert, and Margaret Harris of Motley."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Gielgud, John, 1904-2000.
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Actors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0826413331 alkaline paper |
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