Laurence Olivier Bücher

Die ehrliche Biographie des größten englischen Schauspielers unserer Tage, Sir Laurence Olivier

A candid record of the actor's stage and screen career, from his early success in Henry V at the Old Vic in 1937 to his television King Lear in 1983.

A Christmas Carol is one of the best loved and most quoted of all English language Christmas stories. First published in 1843, it never fails to make an appearance every Christmas in some form. Ebenezer Scrooge, a most disagreeable curmudgeon, is visited by the ghost of his partner Jacob Marley. Marley informs him that he is to receive three visitors this Christmas Eve. They are the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. By the next morning the change in Scrooge is astonishing, he has become a kind, generous, caring, and thoughtful person. Dickens' flair for characters has left us with two who have gone past the story and entered into the English speaking culture -- Scrooge and Tiny Tim. Book photo from Turtle Back version. Turtle Back is a Paper Back that is rebound as a Hard Back.

Laurence Olivier was a true legend. No classical actor had ever been such a dazzling star. No star had been such a magnificent actor. In this marvellous autobiography Laurence Olivier tells his own story: his brilliant career as actor, director, film-maker and producer; his role as husband to three women including Vivien Leigh and Joan Plowright; and his many friendships - with Sir Ralph Richardson, Noel Coward and Sir Winston Churchill, to name just a few. <i>Confessions of an Actor</i> is more than just a memoir. It is a deeply felt testament by one of the most astonishingly gifted artists of all time.