Charles Laughton; A Difficult Actor
by Simon Callow
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0802110479
- ISBN 13
- 9780802110473
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Grove Press, 1988 Grove Press, New York. 1988. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by line number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light spotty splash stains on textblock top. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($18.95); slight head and lower tips bumping to jacket. 318 pp 8vo. H worked with motion picture greats and his career spanned fifty films and forty stage roles. This book spans the actors early years in England at his parents' seaside hotel, through the West End, Hollywood, Broadway, and his final climactic assumption of the role of Lear at Stratford. The author gets right inside the skin of Laughton and shows us the truth behind this legend in his own lifetime who considered himself a failure. A clean pristine copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
Synopsis
SIMON CALLOW is an actor, director and writer. He has appeared on the stage and in many films, including the hugely popular Four Weddings and a Funeral . His books include Being an Actor, Shooting the Actor, Love is Where it Falls, the first two volumes of his three-volume life of Orson Welles, his theatrical memoir My Life in Pieces , and, most recently, the highly acclaimed Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World .
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005674
- Title
- Charles Laughton; A Difficult Actor
- Author
- Simon Callow
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0802110479
- ISBN 13
- 9780802110473
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Charles Laughton, Mutiny on the Bounty, Captain Bligh, motion picture actor, homosexuality, LGBTQ, Broadway Actor, Elsa Lanchester, King Lear Role at Stratford,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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