Billie Whitelaw.Who He?. An Autobiography

London England: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1995. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0340606207 Hardback Hardcover. First Edition. Billie Whitelaw....Who He? Slight foxing to edge. Slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. Her own telling of a strange and unlikely journey from deprived childhood, working as a child actress at the age of eleven, winning early fame as the first of Britain's TV kitchen sink heroines and ultimately triumphing in New York in plays Beckett had written for her, makes the most arresting story. With candour, and often indiscretion, Billie Whitelaw writes about her menotrs and colleagues. They include names like Alfred Hitchcok, Orson Welles, Albert Finney, Marcerllo Mastroianni, Joan Littlewood and dozens of others. But the story she tells is a far cry from 'and then I played' chronology. In telling the Journey of her life, Billie Whitelaw does not shrink from describing the tragedies which killed her fqather and almost robbed her of both her son and her husband. In unique detail her book also relates how the plays Beckett directed with her come to life. With humour and pathos, she describes early backstage romances in the North, a difficult first marriage, and her colourful life spanning five decades as a working actress. Writing always as a woman, rather than as an artist recalling her career, Billie Whitelaw has given us an authobiography that is as unusual as it is unforgetable. Illustrated. 272 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .