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Stage and Screen Lives Michael Billington

Stage and Screen Lives By Michael Billington

Stage and Screen Lives by Michael Billington


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Michael Billington has selected approximately 130 biographies from the Dictionary of National Biography to create this anthology of prominent figures of 20th-century British stage and screen.

Stage and Screen Lives Summary

Stage and Screen Lives by Michael Billington

Richard Burton once said that his ambition was simply to be a millionaire. David Niven was expelled from public school for stealing. A young Charlie Chaplin worked as a glass blower to keep his family from poverty. Alfred Hitchcock appreciated good food. Eric Morecambe wrote a book on fishing, appropriately titled Eric Morecambe on Fishing. At nine years old Diana Dors declared, I am going to be a film star, with a swimming pool and a cream telephone. The public has always been interested in the lives of those who choose entertainment as a career. We seem constantly thirsty to find out what makes these people tick and we envy their lifestyles. For this collection, Michael Billington, writer, presenter and drama critic, has selected from the Dictionary of National Biography around 100 such lives from 100 years of the world of entertainment.

Table of Contents

PREFACE BY BRIAN HARRISON; INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL BILLINGTON; CONTENTS; BIOGRAPHIES

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GOR002762796
9780198606444
0198606443
Stage and Screen Lives by Michael Billington
Used - Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
20021201
380
N/A
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