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  • Love Is Where It Falls

    An Account of a Passionate Friendship

    av Simon Callow ...
    Simon Callow's candid and moving memoir of his passionate friendship with legendary literary agent Peggy Ramsay.' Exquisite... Perhaps the best theatrical memoir of our day' David Hare ... Läs mer

    150,40 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • My Life in Pieces

    An Alternative Autobiography

    av Simon Callow ...
    An alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theatre, winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography.In My Life in Pieces Simon Callow retraces his life through the multifarious performers, writers, productions and events which have left their indelible mark on him.The story begins with Peter Pan – his first ever visit to the theatre – before transporting us to ... Läs mer

    173,51 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World

    av Simon Callow ...
    An entertaining biography of Dickens by one of our finest actorsAcclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the English language.From his early years as a child entertainer in Portsmouth to his reluctant retirement from ‘these garish lights’ ... Läs mer

    113,20 kr

  • Shooting the Actor

    av Simon Callow ...
    A companion volume to Being an Actor, Callow's classic text about the experience of acting in the theatre, Shooting the Actor reveals the truth about film acting. The book describes his film work, from Amadeus to Four Weddings and a Funeral, from Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls to Shakespeare in Love.Its centrepiece is a hilarious and sometimes agonising account of the making of Manifesto, shot in ... Läs mer

    176,59 kr

  • Orson Welles, Volume 3

    One-Man Band

    av Simon Callow ...
    Serie Bok 5 - Orson Welles Biographies
    In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles’ life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the twentieth century, looking closely at the triumphs and failures of an ambitious one-man assault on one medium after another – theatre, radio, film, television, even, at one point, ballet – in each of which ... Läs mer

    187,72 kr

  • Orson Welles, Volume 2

    Hello Americans

    av Simon Callow ...
    Serie Bok 4 - Orson Welles Biographies
    The reason for the decline of Orson Welles's career is a hotly debated issue, but decline it certainly did. When Citizen Kane, his first film, opened in 1941, Welles was universally acclaimed as the most audacious filmmaker alive. But instead of marking the beginning of a triumphant career in Hollywood, the film still regularly voted the greatest ever made proved to be an exception in Welles's ... Läs mer

    226,72 kr

  • Orson Welles, Volume 1

    The Road to Xanadu

    av Simon Callow ...
    Serie Bok 3 - Orson Welles Biographies
    A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre, to the making of Citizen Kane. Vivid, vastly entertaining, this is the definitive Welles biography. ... Läs mer

    226,72 kr

  • Shooting the Actor

    av Simon Callow ...
    When Simon Callow met the Yugoslav film director Dusan Makavejev to discuss his new film Manifesto, they both greatly looked forward to working together. Only months later the two were barely speaking.A companion volume to Being An Actor, Shooting the Actor is a funny and disastrous account of a film made in the former Yugoslavia, together with new essays on film and film acting including Callow's ... Läs mer

    97,09 kr

  • Being Wagner

    The Triumph of the Will

    av Simon Callow ...
    The perfect introduction to the Master.Over a century after his death, Richard Wagner’s music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. He was a walking contradiction: aggressive, flirtatious, disciplined, capricious, heroic, visionary and poisonously anti-Semitic. His ten great mature masterpieces constitute an unmatched body of work, created against a backdrop of poverty, ... Läs mer

    184,75 kr

  • Charles Laughton

    A Difficult Actor

    av Simon Callow ...
    The creator of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Henry VIII and Captain Bligh, Charles Laughton's career spans 50 films and 40 stage roles. This entralling biography follows him from his parents' hotel in Scarborough to his climactic assumption of the role of King Lear in Statford at the end of his life. Along the way we meet a galaxy of Hollywood greats - from Korda, Hitchcock and Billy WIlder to ... Läs mer

    146,69 kr

  • The Night of the Hunter

    av Simon Callow ...
    Serie serie BFI Film Classics
    This is an examination of 'The Night of the Hunter', Charles Laughton's only outing as a film director. It looks at the symbolism of the piece, at Willa, her throat cut sitting in the Model-T Ford, and the Preacher, a silhouetted threat on the horizon. ... Läs mer

    135,24 kr

  • Ljudbok

    Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World

    av Simon Callow ...
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    11 timmar:4 min

    A short life of Dickens which celebrates the impact of the theatre on his life and workAcclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the English language.From his early years as a child entertainer in Portsmouth to his reluctant retirement from ... Läs mer

    242,88 kr