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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12006277.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Indian Summer 1968-2000 -- Oedipus and Home -- Peter Hall and Pinter -- The Road to Brideshead -- Late Stages -- 'Major Movie Star' -- Swan Songs.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 551-555) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 579 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Gielgud.".
- catalog identifier "0826413331 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Gielgud.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Continuum,".
- catalog relation "Gielgud.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "792/.028/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "Actors Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Gielgud, John, 1904-2000.".
- catalog subject "PN2598.G45 C76 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Indian Summer 1968-2000 -- Oedipus and Home -- Peter Hall and Pinter -- The Road to Brideshead -- Late Stages -- 'Major Movie Star' -- Swan Songs.".
- catalog title "Gielgud : a theatrical life / Jonathan Croall.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".