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Asking for Trouble: The Memoirs of Sheridan Morley
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Product Description
Marking his 60th birthday, this is the autobiography of Sheridan Morley, the British theatre biographer and critic. Born the weekend of Pearl Harbour in 1941, Sheridan Morley grew up in California in the closing days of the Hollywood Raj, where he knew, albeit fleetingly, Garbo and Dietrich and the colony of English actors "out in the midday sun". He went to school in England, and then Oxford University, followed by the start of his life in news and arts journalism and as a drama critic and biographer. He recounts tales of so many well-known faces in the media and theatre worlds, during a life of two marriages, three children, two grandchildren, one major nervous crack-up and 30 years of BBC radio arts programmes.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #666999 in Books
- Published on: 2002-11-07
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 352 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
Theatre expert, wit, performer, writer: Sheridan Morley is unquestionably one of our most respected and loved theatrical commentators; his immense fund of anecdotes (usually affectionate) have made him a fascinating broadcaster, and his groundbreaking biographies (such as the first serious study of Noel Coward) have always been intelligent and authoritative. His autobiography is quite as entertaining as one might expect from his previous work. Morley was born in California in the closing days of the Hollywood Raj, and encountered many of the stellar names with whom his father, the actor Robert Morley, worked - including Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. For anyone interested in the English theatrical world (or some of the more entertaining byways of the cinema), this is delightful and revealing reading. Most of all, it's one of those books that you casually pick up and find yourself reading assiduously until you've finished it. (Kirkus UK)
Independent
'His chatty style and the clarity of his writing bring a whole era to life'
Mail on Sunday
'Insights into his character and many good stories, some of them very funny....floats delightfully on warm gusts of anecdotes'
