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Profiles - Softcover

Tynan, Kenneth

 
9780679756392: Profiles

Synopsis

A collection of fifty celebrity profiles by a noted drama critic includes his observations about such figures as Humphrey Bogart, Mel Brooks, W. C. Fields, Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, and Laurence Olivier. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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Review

The real Tynan is contained in this collection of 50 profiles and theatre criticism... dazzling... top marks go to those who treat conversation as another chance to perform --Guardian

About the Author

Kenneth Tynan was born in April 1927 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, which he left to become drama critic of the Evening Standard in 1951. He moved to the Observer in 1954, where he wrote on theatre every week until he left in 1962 to join Laurence Olivier's new National Theatre as its Literary Manager - and later Consultant. He died in July 1980. A selection of his Theatre Writings is published by NHB. Also published since his death are his Diaries and Letters.

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