Asking for Trouble
Asking for Trouble
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Summary
A autobiography of the British theatre world's best-loved biographer and critic. It contains theatrical anecdotes.
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Asking for Trouble by Sheridan Morley
Born the weekend of Pearl Harbour in 1941, Sheridan Morley grew up in California in the closing days of the Hollywood Raj, where he knew, albeit fleetingly, Garbo and Dietrich and the colony of English actors 'out in the midday sun'. He went to school in England, and then Oxford University, followed by the start of Sheridan's life in news and arts journalism and as a drama critic and biographer. He recounts tales of so many well-known faces in the media and theatre worlds, during a life of two marriages, three children, two grandchildren, one major nervous crack-up and thirty years of BBC radio arts programmes. As Sheridan himself says, 'life is a critical condition', and his witty, fascinating autobiography marks his 60th birthday.
'Sheridan weaves together with ebullient humour and gracious self-deprecation the various strands of his life: his parentage, the West End stage, the BBC, his nervous breakdown, his biography writing and his journalism' -- The Sunday Times 'For those like myself who can never have enough anecdotes about such fruity thespians as Robert Morley, Wilfrid Hyde White, David Tomlinson, Peter Bull and company, this is a delightful treat.' -- Hugh Massingberd, Daily Telegraph 'Richly entertaining and wryly winning.' -- Independent 'Quite as entertaining as one might expect from his previous work...this is delightful and revealing reading. Most of all, it's one of those books that you casually pick up and find yourself reading assiduously until you've finished it.' -- Good Book Guide
Sheridan Morley is one of Britain's foremost award-winning theatre critics, broadcasters and biographers. He has written the first biographies of Noel Coward, David Niven and James Mason as well as lives of many other actors including his father, Robert Morley, and his grandmother, Dame Gladys Cooper.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780340820582 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340820586 |
| Title | Asking for Trouble |
| Author | Sheridan Morley |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2003-08-18 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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