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An affectionate and witty memoir of one of Britain's great theatrical and cinematic talents, Rex Harrison. Patrick Garland worked with Harrison on the revival of "My Fair Lady" and came to know him well and - despite Rex's reputation as something of an unholy terror - became extremely fond of him. Rex Harrison was famed for his urbane style, his mordant wit, his numerous wives and his truly appalling temper, quite apart from his legendary and much loved performance as Henry Higgins on both stage and screen. His fifth wife, Elizabeth said of him, "I was very fond of Rex before we were married, and even more fond of him after we were married - it ws the bit in between that was so difficult".
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Patrick Garland is an actor and a director of British theatre, television and film, and a writer. Among many productions, he directed the revival of My Fair Lady on Broadway in the early 1980s with Rex Harrison (about whom he wrote The Incomparable Rex) and the musical Billy with Michael Crawford at Drury Lane, Mozart's Don Giovanni and Handel's opera Ottone. He directed his own play, Brief Lives, based on the life and writing of John Aubrey, and starring Roy Dotrice in the premiere and Michael Williams in the revival. He also directed Eileen Atkins in his own adaptation of Virginia Woolf's book A Room of One's Own. On Queen Elizabeth II's sixtieth birthday he directed Fanfare for Elizabeth at Covent Garden in 1989 he directed the Thanksgiving Service in Westminster Abbey for Lord Olivier. He is married to the actress Alexandra Bastedo.
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