Author: Schanke, Robert A., 1940-
Title: Shattered applause the lives of Eva Le Gallienne
Description: Southern Illinois University Press, ©1992. This first full-length biography of stage actress Eva Le Gallienne traces her life from her birth into the troubled but fascinating household of Richard Le Gallienne, British writer and intimate member of the Oscar Wilde circle, to her recent death. This comprehensive biography draws upon Robert A. Schanke's interviews and correspondence not only with Le Gallienne but also with more than one hundred of her colleagues and friends, including Glenda Jackson, Burgess Meredith, Eli Wallach, Peter Falk, Ellen Burstyn, Anne Jackson, Farley Granger, Jane Alexander, Uta Hagen, and Rosemary Harris. Forty-two illustrations offer highlights of her many notable performances in such plays as Hedda Gabler, Liliom, The Cherry Orchard, Peter Pan, Camille, Mary Stuart, The Royal Family, and The Dream Watcher. Behind her public role as a famous actress and as the founding and maintaining force behind the first civic repertory theatre in the United States,; gebonden - bound - hard cover; met stofomslag -. .

Keywords: Le Gallienne, Eva, 1899-1991., Actors--United States--Biography., Lesbians--United States--Biography. 0585105863


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