Marie Prescott : "a star of some brilliancy" / Kevin Lane Dearinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dearinger, Kevin Lane, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prescott, Marie.

Actors--United States--Biography.

Actors.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2009]

Contents:

"Gifted daughter": Marie Prescott's family history and early years

"The whole burden on her pretty shoulders": Prescott's work to establish herself in the theatrical community

"Great things greatly": Prescott's first starring ventures and her seasons with Salvini

"For her grief and her good looks": an infamous libel trial and its repercussions

"There you show your genius, Mr. Wilde": Prescott prepares Oscar Wilde's Vera

"The power to stir": the opening and abrupt closing of Vera

"How full of briars is this working-day world": managing a public career after scandal and humiliation

"Of course I put forth my best efforts": touring with R.D. Maclean

"Slight heed to the incongruities": continuing conflict with the New York press

"Brilliant and beautiful for an hour": retirement and early death

"Veteran": R.D. Maclean and Odette Tyler

"How few are not forgotten": a "mother fixation".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780838642122

0838642128

OCLC:

297222752