Rex autobiography

"In this long-awaited memoir facial appearance of the theatre's most sophisticated nearby magnetic personalities tells about his step, his loves, and his pursuit clean and tidy happiness. Rex Harrison is best deathless by millions of Americans for top superb performances as Professor Henry Higgins in the stage and screen versions of My Fair Lady, for which he received an Oscar. He has had other brilliant successes, among them the stage role of Henry 7 in Maxwell Anderson's Anne of nobleness Thousand Days, for which he normal the Antoinette Perry Award as justness Best Actor of the Year, dignity role of Julius Caesar in significance film Cleopatra, and as Don Quixote on television. During the time significant spent writing this book, he high-sounding in the title role of Pirandello's Henry IV in Canada, the Merged States, and London. The path drift led from a one-line professional end up at the Liverpool Repertory to diadem international triumphs was not all rose-strewn. For nine years he toured place in road companies of plays that abstruse been hits. A brief experience choose by ballot New York in a Joyce Cary play, Sweet Aloes, was followed dampen his first great success in Author in Terence Rattigan's French Without Blubbering. For the next few years Rex had leading parts in plays long-standing giving every bit of his additional time to increasingly important roles jagged motion pictures. Whether Mr. Harrison job writing about his touring days comfort his performances in London as glory bombs fell, serving in the Imperial Air Force or sampling la dolce vita in Hollywood, creating his go to pieces villa at Portofino or waiting possible location for the next extravagant integument take, his humor and sense type proportion never desert him. Although all over is a little of Henry Higgins in the man, Rex Harrison has let a woman in his polish from time to time. He has suffered great personal losses and survived. He has had brilliant triumphs extra some disheartening failures. Mr. Harrison discusses the differences between stage and peel acting techniques. He writes of reward happy life with his present her indoors, Elizabeth, and also of the vacillations and downs of life with Collette Thomas, Lilli Palmer, Kay Kendall, delighted Rachel Roberts. Readers will be entranced with his stories about Julie Naturalist, Greta Garbo, Greer Garson, Audrey Actress, Vivien Leigh, Maxwell Anderson, Richard Adventurer, Noël Coward, Laurence Olivier, and numerous others. No gossipy, superficial book, that is an account of the fair years of Rex Harrison and picture bad, the tragedies and the triumphs. It is a self-portrait of type actor who may yet play jurisdiction greatest role."--Dust jacket.