Olivier - Philip Ziegler

Olivier
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Autor: Philip Ziegler

 Wydawnictwo: Maclehose Press
ISBN: 9780857051196
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Oprawa: twarda
Stron: 464
Data wydania: 2013-09-01
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Hollywood superstar; Oscar-winning director; greatest stage actor of the twentieth century. The era abounded in great actors - Gielgud, Richardson, Guinness, Burton, O'Toole - but none could challenge Laurence Olivier's range and power. By the 1940s he had achieved international stardom. His affair with Vivien Leigh led to a marriage as glamorous and as tragic as any in Hollywood history. He was as accomplished a director as he was a leading man: his three Shakespearian adaptations are among the most memorable ever filmed. And yet, at the height of his fame, he accepted what was no more than an administrator's wage to become the founding Director of the National Theatre. In 2013 the theatre celebrates its fiftieth anniversary; without Olivier's leadership it would never have achieved the status that it enjoys today. Off-stage, Olivier was the most extravagant of characters: generous, yet almost insanely jealous of those few contemporaries whom he deemed to be his rivals; charming but with a ferocious temper. With access to more than fifty hours of candid, unpublished interviews, Philip Ziegler ensures that Olivier's true character - at its most undisguised - shines through as never before. 'Philip's book is the Larry I knew' Tarquin Olivier. 'An elegant and increasingly compelling book' Simon Callow, Guardian. 'Enthralling. I took it on holiday and could hardly bear to finish it ... Tremendous' The Times. 'A triumph ... It succeeds, as far as is humanly possible, in bringing alive on the page Olivier's magnetic theatrical presence, which those who saw him act will never forget' Sunday Times.

Książka "Olivier"
Philip Ziegler