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Biographies & Memoirs

Alexander, Walker

Arts & Literature

Fontana Press

<p>From his zany "Goon Show" days to memorable British film comedies like "I'm All Right Jack; from he farciacal Pink Panther movies to the Academy Award-winning "Being There" Peter Sellers was truly a man of many faces and voices.</p>

Peter Sellers: The Authorized Biography

Humor & Entertainment

Macmillan

1st U.S. Edition. Description: x, 246 p. , [16] p. Of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Roberts, Rachel, 1927-1980 --Diaries. Actors --Great Britain --Diaries.

No Bells on Sunday: The Rachel Roberts Journals

Rachel Roberts

Harpercollins

Hollywood England is a study of an era as much as of the cinema, with the screen often reflecting the mood of the Swinging Sixties.” Alexander Walker reveals how, for the first time, British cinema achieved a truly national character, with films like Billy Liar, the Beatles’ musicals, and the James Bond pictures; directors like Ken Loach and Ken Russell; and stars like Michael Caine and Julie Christie. Yet despite a wealth of exciting new films and talent, by the end of the decade, Hollywood sustained 95 percent of British filmmaking. In tracing these developmentsfrom the sober reality of post-Suez Britain to its consumer boom and new permissivenessWalker offers sharp appraisals of this pivotal era in British cinema.

Hollywood, England: British Film Industry in the Sixties

Harrap

An Account of a Voyage to the North West Coast of America in 1785 and 1786

History

Americas

Univ. of Washington Press

Charm has always been a dangerous gift. For Rex Harrison - who drove two women to suicide for love of him - it was fatal.For decades, Rex Harrison was the king of the English stage. My Fair Lady immortalized his persona as the epitomal English gentleman; yet, beneath those easy manners, that cool wit and sophistication, lurked an ego of tyrannical proportions. Always in need of a woman to stand at his side, Harrison married six times; both Carole Landis, a young starlet, and Rachel Roberts, the troubled actress who was his fourth wife, killed themselves. And yet his devotion to his third wife, Kay Kendall, was such that he protected her from knowledge of the tragic illness that would fell her just two years into their marriage.Drawing on unpublished sources to which he has had sole access, and on conversations with Harrison himself and nearly one hundred of his friends and family, Alexander Walker traces the public and private life of this brilliant actor, from his genteel beginnings in the suburbs of Liverpool through hard times and triumph on the English stage to his arrival in - and eventual retreat from - a Hollywood he found prurient and unkind. And he reveals the dark nostalgia of the actor's last years, when the man who had made famous such British symbols as Henry Higgins and Doctor Dolittle grew embittered as he was denied, almost to the end, the honor he coveted - the title of Sir Rex.The definitive biography, Alexander Walker's Fatal Charm portrays brilliantly Rex Harrison the greatest high-comedy actor of his generation - and Rex Harrison the man, whose charm was fatal indeed.

Fatal Charm: The Life of Rex Harrison

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Prime Source of 1st handed information about Stanley Kubrik and his work. Stanley Kubrik directs uses over 350 black and white stills to produce a biography of Kubrik through his work which is, in a way a projection of his life. It includes interviews with Kubrik and people he has worked with,a commentary on his films, the origins of his ideas and assessment of the impact of his films on his reputation. It covers work such as Lolita, Dr Strangelove, 2001 : A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange as well as his most recent film, Eyes Wide Shut, a psychological thriller which is to star Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

Stanley Kubrick Director a Visual Analys

Weidenfield & Nicholson

Coronet Books

'I will play Scarlett O'Hara' she said, even while the novel of Gone with the Wind was being reviewed - and she did. While a barrister's wife with an infant daughter she saw a handsome actor and immediately announced 'I will marry him' - and she did. From 1940 until they divorced in 1960 Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier were the 'royal' couple of the stage in two continents, yet were steadily being consumed by Vivien's manic depression which led her into follies and affairs. Drawing on the memories and anecdotes of her family, friends and fellow players, as well as on his own conversations with Vivien just before her death, Alexander Walker has written the definitive biography of  Vivien Leigh.

Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh

METHUEN

The shattered silents: How the talkies came to stay

William Morrow & Co.

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