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In Spite of Myself audiobook
- By: Christopher Plummer
- Narrator: Christopher Plummer
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Length: 16 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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In Spite of Myself Audiobook Summary
A rollicking, rich portrait of a life. And what a life! By one of our greatest actors.
Plummer tells how “this young bilingual wastrel, incurably romantic, spoiled rotten, tore himself away from the ski slopes to break into the big bad world of theatre, not from the streets up but from an Edwardian living room down,” and writes of his early acting days as an eighteen-year-old playing the lead in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline.
We see his glorious New York of the fifties, where life began at midnight, with the likes of Arthur Miller, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, and Paddy Chayefsky, and how Plummer’s own Broadway world developed and swept him along through the last Golden Age the American Theatre would ever remember . . . how the sublime Ruth Chatterton (“she might have been created by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis”) introduced him to the right people in New York . . . how Miss Eva Le Gallienne gave Plummer his Broadway debut at twenty-five in The Starcross Story (“It opened and closed in one night! One solitary night! But what a night!”).
He writes about his film career: The Sound of Music (affectionately dubbed “S&M”) . . . Inside Daisy Clover, which brought him together with the beautiful Natalie Wood . . . John Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King (Plummer was Rudyard Kipling). He tells the story of accepting Sir Laurence Olivier’s invitation to join the National Theatre Company, playing in Amphytron directed by Olivier himself (“a great actor but lousy director”), and writes about falling deeply in love with and eventually marrying a young actress and dancer, Elaine Taylor—to this day, his “one true strength.”
Seamlessly written, with stories that make us laugh out loud and that make real the fascinating, complex, exuberant adventure that is the actor’s (at least this actor’s) life.
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In Spite of Myself Full Details
| Narrator | Christopher Plummer |
| Length | 16 hours 36 minutes |
| Author | Christopher Plummer |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 27, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780385359696 |
Subjects
The publisher of the In Spite of Myself is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: Academy Award winners, autobiography, memoir, cinema, movies, theatre, theater, Hollywood, film industry, film, actor, Canadian actors, The Sound of Music, adult stocking stuffers, biography, biographies, comedy, autobiographies, hollywood, music, acting, drama, movie, biographies and memoirs, biographies of famous people, creativity, movie books, autobiography books, memoirs, acting books, character, gifts for movie lovers, music biographies, gifts for actors, movie book, actor gifts, memoir books, acting for young actors, Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Performing Arts, Film & Video, General, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Additional info
The publisher of the In Spite of Myself is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780385359696.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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