The Other Side of the Moon: The Life of David Niven - Hardcover

Morley, Sheridan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 029778708X ISBN 13: 9780297787082

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985

Synopsis

300 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. Written With Greater Freedom Than An Authorized Biography, Sheridan Has Nevertheless Received The Full Co-operation Of Niven's Family In Compiling This Highly Enjoyable And Perceptive Account Of The Triumphs And Tragedies In The Life Of The Star Who For Millions Of Cinemagoers Symblized The British Gentleman In Hollywood And For Whom His Enormous Public Had Such Affection.

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About the Author:

Sheridan Morley (1941-2007) was the third generation of a celebrated theatrical family. His father was Robert Morley, the character actor, and his grandmother was Gladys Cooper, in her youth one of the great beauties of her day and a much sought-after actor in Britain and Hollywood. Sheridan was also a cousin of the actress and presenter Joanna Lumley and brother-in-law of the actor Robert Hardy.

Morley joined The Times as deputy features editor in 1973, and then Punch in 1975 as drama critic and arts editor, remaining with the magazine until 1989. In the late 1980s, he became a regular arts diarist for The Times and was its TV critic from 1989 to 1990. He worked as drama critic for the Spectator from 1990 to 2001, and after a short period at the New Statesman, he joined the Daily Express in 2004.

He married his first wife, Margaret Gudejko, in 1965, and they had three children together. He married his second wife, Ruth Leon, in 1995.

He authored a number of books including A Talent to Amuse: A Life of Noel Coward (1969); Gladys Cooper (1979); The Hollywood Raj (1983), The Other Side of the Moon: The Life of David Niven (1985), Odd Man Out: James Mason (1989) and Robert: My Father (1993). These are now all republished by Dean Street Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 029778708X
• ISBN 13: 9780297787082
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 316