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Fatal Charm: The Life of Rex Harrison

Fatal Charm: The Life of Rex Harrison

by Alexander Walker (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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    Hardcover 1992

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Synopsis

For decades Rex Harrison was the king of the English stage. MY FAIR LADY immortalised his persona, the epitome of the English gentleman. But beneath those easy manners and cool wit lurked a tyrannical egoism. Rex always needed a woman beside him and he married six times; both Carole Landis, a young starlet, and Rachel Roberts, the actress who was his fourth wife, committed suicide. Alexander Walker traces the public and private life of this brilliant actor, from his genteel beginnings in the suburbs of Liverpool through hard graft and triumph on the English stage, to a prurient Hollywood from which scandal forced him to flee. Drawing on unpublished sources, on conversations with Rex Harrison, and on interviews with Harrison's closest family and friends, Walker brilliantly portrays Rex Harrison, the greatest high-comedy actor of his generation, and Rex Harrison, the incomparable despot.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 608
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 07 Nov 2002
ISBN 10: 0752849018
ISBN 13: 9780752849010
Book Overview: By the bestselling author whose biographies include Audrey Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor and Stanley Kubrick Alexander Walker has been the London Evening Standard's influential film critic since 1960, has twice been named 'Critic of the Year' in the British press awards All his biographies regular reprint, and received widespread critical acclaim: 'Walker tells it in unsparing detail but with great sympathy' OBSERVER Walker has succeeded in giving the reader a portrait as much as a chronology .. this is a tribute as much to his subject's personality as to his own skill ... This is a biography worthy of its admirable subject' EVENING STANDARD 'Lucid and informative ... Walker's biography tells a lurid and often distressing story with shrewdness and compassion' BOOKS 'A sure-fire winner' DAILY TELEGRAPH

Author Bio
Alexander Walker is the author of over twenty books about the cinema and its stars, including bestselling biographies of Elizabeth Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Peter Sellers and Audrey Hepburn. He has also written standard works on the coming of the Talkies, a monograph on Stanley Kubrick, and the fullest account to date of the British film industr from 1960 to 1985. He has been the London Evening Standard's influential film critic since 1960 and has been named Critic of the Year three times in the British Press Awards. A prolific broadcaster on television and radio, he wrote and narrated four series of Film Star for the BBC. Alexander Walker was born in Ireland, and educated there, on the Continent and in the United States.