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With this sparkling, often moving and always immensely entertaining autobiography, Rex Harrison celebrates his fiftieth year in the theatre. It was love at first cue, between him and acting, but the path that led from his earliest scared ap- pearance as a lankysixteen-year-old on the stage of the Liverpool Repertory, to his international triumphs as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, as Julius Caesar in the film Cleopatra, as Doctor Dolittle and most recently as Pirandello’s Henry IVand Don Quixote on television, was not all rose- strewn. About the obstacles and temptations which also lined the way, Rex is unfailingly candid, and for every story of which he is the hero there is one told at his own expense. But whether he is remembering himself touring the provinces in Charley’s Aunt or getting his chance at last in French Without Tears, performing in London as the bombs fall or serving as a Flight Lieutenant in the R.A.F.V.R., sampling la dolce vita in Hollywood or creating his own in his villa at Portofino, playing in long-running successes on Broadway or in the West End or waiting on location for the next extravagant film take, getting married or unmarried, his humour and sense of proportion never desert him. Like the ‘getting-up horse’ of Hollywood trick photography, whose sole metier is to rise, Rex reveals himself in his Autobiography, as on stage, as a strong and irrepressible presence, whose love affair with the theatre is still, after halfacentury in its springtime state.
262 pages
In good to very good preloved conditioner
Hardcover.