[DOWNLOAD]❤BOOK✔ In Spite of Myself: A Memoir

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In Spite of Myself: A Memoir
Sinopsis :
A rollicking, rich portrait of a life. And what a life! By one of our
greatest actors.Plummer tells how &#8220ths 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,&#8221and writes of his early acting days as an
eighteen-year-old playing the lead in
Shakespeare&#8217Cymbeline.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&#8217own Broadway
world developed and swept him along through the last Golden
Age the American Theatre would ever remember . . . how the

sublime Ruth Chatterton (&#8220hemight have been created
by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis&#8221 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 (&#8220Itopened and closed in one night!
One solitary night! But what a night!&#8221. He writes about
his film career: The Sound of Music (affectionately dubbed
&#8220ampM&#8221 . . . Inside Daisy Clover, which brought
him together with the beautiful Natalie Wood . . . John
Huston&#8217The Man Who Would Be King (Plummer was
Rudyard Kipling). He tells the story of accepting Sir Laurence
Olivier&#8217invitation to join the National Theatre Company,
playing in Amphytron directed by Olivier himself
(&#8220agreat actor but lousy director&#8221, and writes
about falling deeply in love with and eventually marrying a
young actress and dancer, Elaine Taylor&#8212tothis day, his
&#8220ontrue strength.&#8221ealessly written, with stories
that make us laugh out loud and that make real the fascinating,
complex, exuberant adventure that is the actor&#8217(at least
this actor&#8217 life.