In Spite Of Myself: A Memoir,Used

In Spite Of Myself: A Memoir,Used

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A Rollicking, Rich Portrait Of A Life. And What A Life! By One Of Our Greatest Actors.Plummer Tells How This Young Bilingual Wastrel, Incurably Romantic, Spoiled Rotten, Tore Himself Away From The Ski Slopes To Break Into The Big Bad World Of Theatre, Not From The Streets Up But From An Edwardian Living Room Down, And Writes Of His Early Acting Days As An Eighteenyearold Playing The Lead In Shakespeares Cymbeline.We See His Glorious New York Of The Fifties, Where Life Began At Midnight, With The Likes Of Arthur Miller, Carson Mccullers, Tennessee Williams, And Paddy Chayefsky, And How Plummers Own Broadway World Developed And Swept Him Along Through The Last Golden Age The American Theatre Would Ever Remember . . . How The Sublime Ruth Chatterton (She Might Have Been Created By F. Scott Fitzgerald And Sinclair Lewis) Introduced Him To The Right People In New York . . . How Miss Eva Le Gallienne Gave Plummer His Broadway Debut At Twentyfive In The Starcross Story (It Opened And Closed In One Night! One Solitary Night! But What A Night!).He Writes About His Film Career: The Sound Of Music (Affectionately Dubbed S&M) . . . Inside Daisy Clover, Which Brought Him Together With The Beautiful Natalie Wood . . . John Hustons The Man Who Would Be King (Plummer Was Rudyard Kipling). He Tells The Story Of Accepting Sir Laurence Oliviers Invitation To Join The National Theatre Company, Playing In Amphytron Directed By Olivier Himself (A Great Actor But Lousy Director), And Writes About Falling Deeply In Love With And Eventually Marrying A Young Actress And Dancer, Elaine Taylorto This Day, His One True Strength.Seamlessly Written, With Stories That Make Us Laugh Out Loud And That Make Real The Fascinating, Complex, Exuberant Adventure That Is The Actors (At Least This Actors) Life.

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