Terry Thomas Tells Tales
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Terry Thomas Tells Tales
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Author : Terry Thomas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Terry Thomas Tells Tales written by Terry Thomas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with categories.
Terry Thomas Tells Tales
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Author : Terry-Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Robson Books Limited
Release Date : 1990
Terry Thomas Tells Tales written by Terry-Thomas and has been published by Robson Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Bounder
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Author : Graham McCann
language : en
Publisher: Aurum
Release Date : 2011-12-01
Bounder written by Graham McCann and has been published by Aurum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
With his sly little moustache, broad gap-toothed grin, garish waistcoats and ostentatious cigarette holder, Terry-Thomas was known as an absolute bounder, both onscreen and off. Graham McCann’s hugely entertaining biography celebrates the life and career of a very English rascal. Born in 1911 into an ordinary suburban family, Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens set about transforming himself at a very early age into a dandy and a gadabout. But he did not put the finishing touches to his persona until the mid-1950s with his groundbreaking TV comedy series How Do You View?, a forerunner of The Goon Show and Monty Python. Terry-Thomas went on to carve out a long and lucrative career in America, appearing on TV alongside Judy Garland, Bing Crosby and Lucille Ball, and in Hollywood movies with Jack Lemmon, Rock Hudson and Doris Day. He became every American’s idea of a mischievous English gent. After a long battle with Parkinson’s disease, he died in 1990 in comparative obscurity, but his influence lives on. Basil Brush was a polyester tribute to Terry-Thomas, and comedians including Vic Reeves and Paul Whitehouse hail T-T as a role model. ‘Dandyism is the product of a bored society,’ D’Aurevilly observed. Terry-Thomas cocked a snook at the dull sobriety of post-war Britain with his sly humour. As he would say himself: ‘Good show!’
Focus On 100 Most Popular English Male Comedians
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Author : Wikipedia contributors
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow sro
Release Date :
Focus On 100 Most Popular English Male Comedians written by Wikipedia contributors and has been published by e-artnow sro this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Old Time Variety
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Author : Richard Anthony Baker
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2011-07-12
Old Time Variety written by Richard Anthony Baker and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-12 with Performing Arts categories.
“An illustrated history of good old-fashioned entertainment from names like Tessie O’Shea, George Formby, and the early days of Bruce Forsyth.” —Yours As one of the richest sources of diversion for the people of Britain between the end of the First World War and the 1960s, the variety theater emerged from the embers of music hall, a vulgar and rambunctious entertainment that had held the working classes in thrall since the 1840s. Music hall bosses decided they would do better business if a man going to theaters on his own could take his wife and children with him, knowing they would see or hear nothing that would scandalize them. So variety, a gentler, less red-blooded entertainment was gradually established. At the top of the profession were Gracie Fields, a peerless singer and comedienne, and Max Miller, a comic who was renowned for being risqué, but who, in fact, never cracked a dirty joke. They were supported by acts that matched the word variety: ventriloquists, drag artists, animal acts, acrobats, jugglers, magicians and many more. But the variety theater was constantly under threat, first from revue, then radio, the cinema, girlie shows, the birth of rock ’n’ roll and finally television. By the end of the 1950s, the variety business seemed to have given up, but the recent and extraordinary popularity of talent shows on television has proved the public appetite is still there. Variety could be about to start all over again. “A priceless record of the people who entertained several generations between the wars and, for a brief time, after WWII . . . thoroughly entertaining.” —Books Monthly
The Kindest People Who Do Good Deeds Volume 3
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Author : David Bruce
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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The Kindest People Who Do Good Deeds Volume 3 written by David Bruce and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Fallen Stars
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Author : Julian Upton
language : en
Publisher: Headpress
Release Date : 2004
Fallen Stars written by Julian Upton and has been published by Headpress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Fallen Stars probes the underside of fame to reveal a host of glittering careers stunted by ill-health, alcoholism, drug addiction and egomania. Twenty-one tales of stardom turned sour, these are the tragic final years of some of the world's best-loved actors and comedians, a latter-day Hollywood Babylon that includes Benny Hill, Diana Dors, Peter Sellers, Carry On legends and many others.
British Stars And Stardom
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Author : Bruce Babington
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2001
British Stars And Stardom written by Bruce Babington and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
British film stars—even the most famous ones, such as James Mason, Sean Connery, and Julie Andrews—are a neglected subject in film history. This interesting collection looks at the whole of British stardom from circa 1910 onwards, and the many types of British stars who gained worldwide fame through national and international cinema.
They Knew Marilyn Monroe
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Author : Les Harding
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2012-09-07
They Knew Marilyn Monroe written by Les Harding and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-07 with Performing Arts categories.
Taking an innovative approach to the life and legend of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), this biographical dictionary concentrates on her circle of friends, acquaintances and coworkers--1618 in all. Distilled from hundreds of celebrity biographies are references to, and quotes about, the iconic Hollywood sex symbol from such diverse personalities as architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Israeli diplomat Abba Eban, beat poet Jack Kerouac, novelist Somerset Maugham, jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, counterculture guru Timothy Leary and evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, to name but a few. All of these remarkable people have, in one way or another, crossed paths with the magnificent Monroe. The entries in this volume (with source listings for further reading and research) confirm the fact that Marilyn Monroe remains a figure of enduring fascination five decades after her death.
Hutch
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Author : Charlotte Breese
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-01-16
Hutch written by Charlotte Breese and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The vivid true story of one of the biggest stars in Britain during the 1920s and 30s, and the inspiration for Downton Abbey's Jack Ross Born in Grenada in 1900, Leslie "Hutch" Hutchinson went to America in 1916 to study medicine, but soon escaped to Harlem where he witnessed the birth of "stride" jazz piano and began playing and singing in bars himself. Moving to France in 1923, he became the protege and lover of Cole Porter before coming to London where he was soon topping the bills in variety and on radio. Immaculate in white tie and tails, Hutch had enormous sex appeal, his velvet voice and superb piano improvisation attracting legions of fans, including the then Prince of Wales and, most famously, Edwina Mountbatten. Despite his success, Hutch was a profoundly insecure man with insatiable appetites for sex, drink, gambling and social status which precipitated his fall from fame to a squalid existence by the late 1960s.