Gladys Cooper. A Biography

London England: Heinemann, 1979. Hardback. First Edition. Gladys Cooper. 'She had all the charm of an electric carving knife' - Dirk Bogarde. 'She was a darling girl' - Sybil Thorndike. Two views of Gladys Cooper from anmong the vivid personal recollections of fellow actos and actresses, playwrights and directors which are a feature of this biography, the portrait of an extraordinary woman who started out as a Gaiety Girl and postcard beauty and ended up as a Dame of the British Empire. Her careered spanned two World Wars and two continents (in 1939, with thirty-five years in the English theatre already behind her, she went to Hollywood with Hitchcock to make Rebecca and stayed, on a long-term contract with MGM, to star in many other films). She was married three times, had three children, and lived life with an unfailing energy and courage. Her biographer, who is also the eldest of her five grandchildren, has drawn on his own deep knowledge of the theatre in this intimate and highly entertaining account of one of the great ladies of the British stage. Illustrated. 314 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback.