Wide Eyed in Babylon An Autobiography by RAY MILLAND
Cena: 19,88 zł
THE BODLEY HEAD LONDON SYDNEY TORONTO 1975, str. 266, stan db + ( przykurzona okładka)
Ray Milknd is one of the best known and most glamorous of all Hollywood stars. Perhaps his greatest acting achievement was the role of the compulsive alcoholic in The Lost Weekend, for which he won an Oscar. Altogether he has appeared in over 200 films.
He was born on a mountain called Cymla above the town of Neath in Wales and was given the name Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones. Much of his youth was spent on his aunt's' stud farm, and his experience with horses led him into the Household Cavalry, where his career was chequered, to say the least - once, after he had drunk one glass of champagne too many, his horse bolted with him down the Mall and into the yard of Buckingham Palace. He drifted into acting by chance, with no idea that he had any talent, and spent some time on the English stage before going to Hollywood in 1930.
He knows and writes about everybody, including DeMille, Robert Benchley, Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Bette Davis, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Dorothy Lamour, Carole Lombard, Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Billy Wilder and many, many more. He is a marvellous storyteller - by turns gracious and sardonic, witty and charming, always sensitive and intelligent. In sum, here is the best book yet on the world of moviemaking'by a man who is blunt, frank and earthy about his career, his profession, his milieu and himself.
Ray Milknd is one of the best known and most glamorous of all Hollywood stars. Perhaps his greatest acting achievement was the role of the compulsive alcoholic in The Lost Weekend, for which he won an Oscar. Altogether he has appeared in over 200 films.
He was born on a mountain called Cymla above the town of Neath in Wales and was given the name Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones. Much of his youth was spent on his aunt's' stud farm, and his experience with horses led him into the Household Cavalry, where his career was chequered, to say the least - once, after he had drunk one glass of champagne too many, his horse bolted with him down the Mall and into the yard of Buckingham Palace. He drifted into acting by chance, with no idea that he had any talent, and spent some time on the English stage before going to Hollywood in 1930.
He knows and writes about everybody, including DeMille, Robert Benchley, Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Bette Davis, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Dorothy Lamour, Carole Lombard, Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Billy Wilder and many, many more. He is a marvellous storyteller - by turns gracious and sardonic, witty and charming, always sensitive and intelligent. In sum, here is the best book yet on the world of moviemaking'by a man who is blunt, frank and earthy about his career, his profession, his milieu and himself.