Disciple and His Devil - Hardcover

Pascal, Valerie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718107268 ISBN 13: 9780718107260

Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1971

Synopsis

This book is Valerie Pascal's biography of her husband - a candid memoir of a man whose career spanned continents, who knew and worked with virtually every important film and theatre personality of his day, who savoured brilliant triumphs yet fought with stubborn courage the misfortunes that circumstances and his own wilful nature brought upon him. It is also a fascinating portrait - highlighted by numerous lively quotations from the unpublished Shaw-Pascal correspondence - of George Bernard Shaw in his vigorous old age, involved to the hilt in Pascal's films of his plays, as concerned with the finances of the productions as with the details of casting, direction, and scripts. But not least, Valerie Pascal has written a memorable love story. One of the most beautiful and popular actresses in Hungary, she had gone to Paris to make a screen test and this became an encounter that gives rise to romantic legends. It was no easy marriage. There were moments of the most perfect love and understanding, and glamour, famous and talented friends, travel all over the world. But Valerie had to face with her own gallant courage her husband's moods and caprices, his frequent absences, his sometimes scandalous infidelities, and the heartbreaking decline of his fortunes symbolized, perhaps by his failure to get "My Fair Lady" produced before his death. But these were two people who could not exist without each other; and through the years the breathless love affair that had begun in the Place Vendome matured and deepened and acquired for both of them a truly spiritual dimension. It is an extraordinary story; and Valerie Pascal has told it with honesty and grace in this remarkable book

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0718107268
• ISBN 13: 9780718107260
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 319