The memoirs of the actor Sir Alec Guinness. The book includes pen portraits of such characters as Ralph Richardson, Sybil Thorndike and John Gielgud, as well as accounts of Guinness's film career, religious beliefs and wartime experiences.
Sir Alec Guinness, one of the most outstanding and beloved actors of his generation, shares an 18-month diary of his present life. Guinness frankly says of this diary, which covers the period from New Year's Day 1995 to June 1996: "I have been unable to disguise my phobias, irritations, prejudices . . . childishness and frivolity. Sometimes, I ...
Though the legendary actor dwells on the current events of the years covered by this journal, he also delves into his own long and storied past in these pages. His reactions to the death of Princess Diana, the election of Tony Blair, and the scandal of President Clinton's affair stand alongside his meditations on theater and his expositions on ...
Though the legendary actor dwells on the current events of the years covered by this journal, he also delves into his own long and storied past in these pages. His reactions to the death of Princess Diana, the election of Tony Blair, and the scandal of President Clinton's affair stand alongside his meditations on theater and his expositions on ...
A marvelously entertaining diary from one of the most distinguished--and beloved--actors of stage and screen. Revealing the octogenarian spryness of a civilized mind and a beguiling mixture of the meditative and the hedonistic, "My Name Escapes Me" offers a glimpse of the private side of Guinness's often very public life.
When Sir Alec Guinness died in August 2000 at the age of 86, he left behind two exercise books filled with entries in his small, beautiful handwriting, together with a typed-up Introduction that suggests he planned to have the books published or broadcast in some way. Together they make up this commonplace book. The entries include passages from ...
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