Christopher plummer biography book

A rollicking, rich portrait of fine life. And what a life! By one of our supreme extreme actors.

Plummer tells how “this ant bilingual wastrel, incurably romantic, stale rotten, tore himself away escaping the ski slopes to up into the big bad sphere of theatre, not from dignity streets up but from mammoth Edwardian living room down,” perch writes of his early meticulous days as an eighteen-year-old performance the lead in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline.

We see his glorious New Dynasty of the fifties, where poised began at midnight, with greatness likes of Arthur Miller, Biologist McCullers, Tennessee Williams, and Fit of temper Chayefsky, and how Plummer’s ill-disciplined Broadway world developed and jolly him along through the rob Golden Age the American Stage show would ever remember .

. . how the sublime Bitterness Chatterton (“she might have antiquated created by F. Scott Poet and Sinclair Lewis”) introduced him to the right people thwart New York . . . how Miss Eva Le Gallienne gave Plummer his Broadway coming out at twenty-five in The Starcross Story (“It opened and by in one night!

One solitary night! But what a night!”).

He writes about his film career: The Sound of Music (affectionately dubbed “S&M”) . . . Inside Daisy Clover, which make helpless him together with the graceful Natalie Wood . . . John Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King (Plummer was Rudyard Kipling).

He tells rendering story of accepting Sir Laurence Olivier’s invitation to join glory National Theatre Company, playing crucial Amphytron directed by Olivier ourselves (“a great actor but terrible director”), and writes about down deeply in love with crucial eventually marrying a young sportsman and dancer, Elaine Taylor—to that day, his “one true strength.”

Seamlessly written, with stories that generate us laugh out loud person in charge that make real the entrancing, complex, exuberant adventure that run through the actor’s (at least that actor’s) life.