To Be Frank: A fictional memoir
- ISBN-10
- 0645492310
- ISBN-13
- 9780645492316
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 372
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022-05-13
- Publisher
- Bookpod
- Author
- M J Cornwall
Description
Known to so many, and yet unknowable, was Frank Thring. Actor, bon vivant, professional flamboyant, withering critic. No one else could tell his story, so here it is, as if by his own hand. His boyhood as the son of a doomed movie mogul and a society charity matriarch, both former showies. His times in radio, theatre, Hollywood, TV and print. As immortal Australian iconoclast. At the end of his life, beset by the maladies he knows will soon claim him, Frank tells all. Of moviemaking, branded ‘hatcheries of disasters.’ Of Dennis Hopper, Mick Jagger, Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Kirk Douglas, Janet Leigh, Julie London, Tony Curtis, Jack Hawkins, James Mason, and Australia’s best. Of sharing the stage with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Of this times with Noel Coward, John Geilgud, Orson Wells, Gore Vidal, Fellini, Edward Woodward, Chips Rafferty, Frankie Howerd. Of his three decades on Australian television, as critic, sidekick, guest and star. Of longer still at the Melbourne Theatre Company. And of the Frank deep beneath the loud, large one he confected. This tale the most intriguing of all.
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Other editions
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- 2021-12-04
- 196 pages
- Paperback
- Discover Your Bounce Publishing
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- 2015-09-09
- 222 pages
- Paperback
- Blackwood Books
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