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Idols of the odeons : post-war British film stardom / Andrew Roberts.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.2 .R63 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts, Andrew, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture actors and actresses--Great Britain--Biography.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- Motion picture industry.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Motion picture industry--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2020.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Senior leads: Meet the chaps
- Jack Hawkins: `Stand by, number one'
- John Mills: `Do push off, there's a good chap'
- Kenneth More: Hawling like a brooligan
- Younger leading men
- Stanley Baker: The British Brando?
- Laurence Harvey: The talented Mr Skikne
- Leading ladies
- Sylvia Syms: Never your typical `nice blonde'
- The one and only Diana Dors: Britain's `bad blonde'
- The comics
- Norman Wisdom: `Mr Grimsdale!'
- Terry-Thomas and Leslie Phillips: A tale of two cads
- Ladies and gentlemen of character
- Sidney James: Jo'burg's favourite cockney
- James Robertson Justice: `What's the bleeding time?'
- Margaret Rutherford: Not to be crossed
- Hattie Jacques: Matron and mistress of misrule
- The art of screen acting
- Peter Finch: The `actor's actor?'
- Peter Sellers: `There used to be a me but I had him surgically removed'.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes filmography.
- Other Format:
- Ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781526147035
- 1526147033
- OCLC:
- 1120099278
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