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The reminiscences of the English actor who plays everything from Shakespeare and Shaw to a Japanese on Broadway or scoundrel in the movies. He has known countless playwrights from Pinero to Tennessee Williams. Parts of this book concerns his work with George Bernard Shaw.

Not since perhaps Eleanor and Franklin has there been so provocative a public pair: fiercely independent and yet codependent, they spent twenty-five years discovering a way they could live together after they figured out that they couldn't live apart. In 1932 they separated; in 1933 they divorced. They reunited in Paris in 1935 and then went to New York; in 1937 they remarried and together applied for American citizenship. Except for brief periods...

David Garrick was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century. After a successful first engagement with the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Garrick spent five years with the Drury Lane company. With the purchase of a share of the theatre Garrick began his 29 years of management of the Drury Lane, during which time it rose to prominence as one of the leading...