ISBN: 9780345803221 - in spite of myself: a memoir (41 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A rollicking, rich portrait of a life. And what a life By one of our greatest actors. Plummer tells how this young bilingual wastrel, incurably romantic, spoiled rotten, tore himself away from the ski slopes to break into the big bad world of theatre, not from the streets up but from an Edwardian living room down, and writes of his early acting days as an eighteen-year-old playing the lead in Shakespeare's Cymbeline. We see his glorious New York of the fifties, where life began at midnight, with the likes of Arthur Miller, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, and Paddy Chayefsky, and how Plummer's own Broadway world developed and swept him along through the last Golden Age the American Theatre would ever remember . . . how the sublime Ruth Chatterton (she might have been created by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis) introduced him to the right people in New York . . . how Miss Eva Le Gallienne gave Plummer his Broadway debut at twenty-five in The Starcross Story (It opened and closed in one night One solitary night But what a night ). He writes about his film career: The Sound of Music (affectionately dubbed S&M) . . . Inside Daisy Clover, which brought him together with the beautiful Natalie Wood . . . John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King (Plummer was Rudyard Kipling). He tells the story of accepting Sir Laurence Olivier's invitation to join the National Theatre Company, playing in Amphytron directed by Olivier himself (a great actor but lousy director), and writes about falling deeply in love with and eventually marrying a young actress and dancer, Elaine Taylor--to this day, his one true strength. Seamlessly written, with stories that make us laugh out loud and that make real the fascinating, complex, exuberant adventure that is the actor's (at least this actor's) life.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. A rollicking, rich portrait of a life. And what a life By one of our greatest actors. Plummer tells how this young bilingual wastrel, incurably romantic, spoiled rotten, tore himself away from the ski slopes to break into the big bad world of theatre, not from the streets up but from an Edwardian living room down, and writes of his early acting days as an eighteen-year-old playing the lead in Shakespeare's Cymbeline. We see his glorious New York of the fifties, where life began at midnight, with the likes of Arthur Miller, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, and Paddy Chayefsky, and how Plummer's own Broadway world developed and swept him along through the last Golden Age the American Theatre would ever remember . . . how the sublime Ruth Chatterton (she might have been created by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis) introduced him to the right people in New York . . . how Miss Eva Le Gallienne gave Plummer his Broadway debut at twenty-five in The Starcross Story (It opened and closed in one night One solitary night But what a night ). He writes about his film career: The Sound of Music (affectionately dubbed S&M) . . . Inside Daisy Clover, which brought him together with the beautiful Natalie Wood . . . John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King (Plummer was Rudyard Kipling). He tells the story of accepting Sir Laurence Olivier's invitation to join the National Theatre Company, playing in Amphytron directed by Olivier himself (a great actor but lousy director), and writes about falling deeply in love with and eventually marrying a young actress and dancer, Elaine Taylor--to this day, his one true strength. Seamlessly written, with stories that make us laugh out loud and that make real the fascinating, complex, exuberant adventure that is the actor's (at least this actor's) life.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A collection of delicious anecdotes of a life spent on stages and film sets across the worldfrom Peter Halls Royal Shakespeare Theatre to The Sound of Musicfrom one of our greatest actors.Christopher Plummers magnificent book recounts the wild adventure that was his life, stretching from a privileged childhood in Canada to the glorious, star-studded New York of the fifties to a sensational career in film appearing in some of our most beloved classics. Here are his late nights out with Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, Paddy Chayefsky, and Arthur Miller; his affairs and marriages; his collaborations with famed producers; and his memorable roles alongside fellow young and talented actors, each also destined for stardom: Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Peter OToole, Natalie Wood, and countless others. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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