Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr 9781504048439

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Автор: Lahr John
Название: Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr
ISBN: 9781504048439
Издательство: Open Road Media
Классификация:

Театроведение

Актёры, исполнители, артисты

Кино, кинематография

Биографии деятелей искусств и развлечений

Отрасли информационных услуг и услуг связи

ISBN-10: 1504048431
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 442
Вес: 0.57 кг.
Дата издания: 05.12.2017
Язык: English
Размер: 216 x 140 x 26
Поставляется из: США
Описание: A sons funny, frank, and endlessly fascinating memoir of his father, Wizard of Oz star Bert Lahr (Harpers Magazine).

Bert Lahr, best known for his role as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, made audiences laugh from burlesque stages to vaudeville to Broadway--and impressed them as Estragon in the American theater debut of Waiting for Godot. But reality wasnt always funny for the legendary actor and comedian, or his family.

Drawing on personal recollections and the memories of his fathers colleagues, a veteran writer for the New Yorker and renowned theater critic brilliantly explores both the long and glorious professional career of a Hollywood icon and the experience of growing up with him. Here, in rich detail, is Bert Lahr evolving from a low-comic star to a Ziegfeld Follies sophisticate, hamming it up with the Scarecrow and Tin Man on the set of TheWizard of Oz, and garnering rich praise as he performed in Samuel Becketts masterpiece. But while Lahr could be equally raucous and polished in public, in private he was painfully insecure and self-absorbed, keeping his family at arms length as he quietly battled his inner demons. A work of literature, a work of history, a subtle psychological study, Notes on a Cowardly Lion is more than one mans quest to understand his father. It is an extraordinary examination of a life on the stage and screen (Harpers Magazine).

From a writer with an intimate knowledge of the theater and show business world, this is both a frank and objective (The New York Times Book Review) family memoir that will appeal to readers of Carrie Fishers Wishful Drinking or Alan Cummings Not My Fathers Son, and a book-length love letter. To open it is to enter a life, to participate in a sensibility and, perhaps most important, to laugh. Uproariously (Life).

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