Author: MILTON, BILLY
Title: Milton's Paradise Mislaid
Description: London, Jupiter. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0904041670). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Silver title on green boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there are some light marks to the bottom margin of 3 pages and some age darkening to page edges else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has a little light creasing to front top edge and is not price clipped. Billy Milton (1905-1989) had a career in show business lasting over 50 years - 50 years on the inside of the bitchiest, wittiest, most scandalous milieu in the world - and this autobiography unashamedly exploits this to the full. Acting, singing, dancing and writing on stage, films and radio, he records it all with a perceptive and sardonic eye - from his schooldays with the bullying homosexual, Tom Driberg, his career in London, then on to Paris where he partnered the great Mistinguett, appearing frequently in films made in London and Paris, then on to Hollywood. Spiced with amusing and revealing incidents and illuminated by the intimate friendship which he enjoyed with so many, this frank, humorous and provocative book provides a fascinating picture of theatrical life over a period of 50 years. Profusely illustrated. 12. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Mistinguett, Noel Coward, Hollywood, Windmill Theatre 0904041670


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