Profiles by Kenneth Tynan
Profiles by Kenneth Tynan, edited by Kathleen Tynan
English | January 11, 2007 | ISBN: 1854599437 | EPUB | 454 pages | 1.2 MB
English | January 11, 2007 | ISBN: 1854599437 | EPUB | 454 pages | 1.2 MB
The only collection of Tynan's star-studded profiles, selected and edited by his widow and biographer, Kathleen Tynan, with a foreword by Simon Callow.
Kenneth Tynan was the 20th century's most influential writer on theatre and performance. Over the course of his life he wrote a series of brilliant and incisive pen-portraits of many of the most significant performers and writers of his day.
Amongst the fifty assembled here are profiles of actors such as Garbo, Bogart, Cagney, Olivier and Gielgud; the directors George Cukor, Peter Brook and Joan Littlewood; writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams; and comedians as diverse as Mel Brooks, Eric Morecambe, W.C. Fields and Lenny Bruce.