In Spite of Myself A Memoir

Name: In Spite of Myself A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780679421627

ISBN-10: 0679421629

ISBN-13: 9780679421627

Edition: N/A

Authors: Christopher Plummer

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A rollicking, rich self-portrait from one of today's greatest living actors. The story of a "young wastrel, incurably romantic, spoiled rotten"his privileged Canadian upbringing, rich in Victorian gentility, included steam yachts, rare orchid farms, music lessons in Paris and Berlin"who tore himself away from the ski slopes to break into the big, bad world of theatre not from the streetsupbut from an Edwardian living roomdown." Plummer writes of his early acting days: at eighteen, playing the lead in Shakespeare'sCymbelineunder the great Fyodor Komisarjevsky; making his Broadway debut at twenty-five inThe Starcross Story,starring Eva Le Gallienne ("It opened and closed in one night, but…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/4/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 656
Size: 6.59" wide x 9.52" long x 1.56" tall
Weight: 2.596
Language: English