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John Gielgud: A Celebration
John Gielgud: A Celebration
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Author: Gyles Brandreth Publisher: Trafalgar Square Format: Softcover # of Pages: 192 Pub. Date: 1994 Edition: 2nd ISBN-10: 1857932870 ISBN-13: 9781857932874
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About the Book:
HARD
TO FIND BOOK, only a very limited number of copies are still
available.
Still appearing on stage and in films almost up to his death at
96, Sir John Gielgud must rate as one of the century's
outstanding figures. He made his Shakespearean debut in 1920 as
Orlando in an amateur open-air production of As You Like It,
"I strode on to the lawn at the first performance, drew my sword
fiercely and declaimed "Forebear and eat no more!", but
unfortunately I tripped over a large log and fell flat on my face".
From that inauspicious start John Gielgud has gone on to enjoy
one of the longest and most distinguished careers in theatre history.
In John Gielgud: A Celebration author Gyles Brandreth
presents a portrait in words and pictures of a remarkable actor and
director whose work has quite extraordinary range, from silent movies
in the 1920s to Hollywood in the 1980s, from Chekhov and Shaw to
David Storey and Harold Pinter from Sheridan and Wilde to Noel Coward
and Alan Bennett, and always Shakespeare, from the Old Vic in 1921 to
the National Theatre in 1977. Illustrated with outstanding
photographs, filmstills, playbills, reviews and caricatures, the book
reveals the whole gamut of John Gielgud's work, as an actor
and director in the theatre, as well as a television performer and
film star.
What people say:
"Brandreth has created a
brilliant tribute larded with anecdotes told to him by Gielgud
himself and also by friends ranging from Tony Richardson to Kenneth
Branagh.." — The Independent on Sunday
About the Author:
Gyles Brandreth is a British writer, broadcaster and former
Member of the British Parliament and junior minister. He wrote an
authorized biography of actor John Gielgud. |
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