Rex: An Autobiography
- ISBN-10
- 0688028810
- ISBN-13
- 9780688028817
- Series
- Rex
- Category
- Actors
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1975
- Publisher
- William Morrow &Company
- Author
- Rex Harrison
Description
The life story of the "spotty provincial boy from Liverpool" who overcame a lack of classical training and went on to forge a 50-year theatrical career. Harrison's dramatic perseverance -- through his early walk-on days with the Liverpool repertory players and years on tour throughout England -- paved the way for West End spotlights. A star of the stage since the late '30's, his move to the screen increased his popularity. Although his life can be reduced to a mélange of long-playing shows and shorter-lived marriages, Harrison's distinguished career has survived. Harrison himself confesses that writing his autobiography was not as self-revelatory as he'd hoped -- "an actor's life is lived too often and for too long on the surface" he asserts. This, then, is a relatively perfunctory, blithely spiritless self-portrait.
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- 2008-10-28
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