Gielgud : a theatrical life / Jonathan Croall.

"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 theatr...

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Main Author: Croall, Jonathan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Continuum, 2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.