The shortlist is announced today for the eighth annual Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography - the nominees are Tennessee Williams Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr, Our Time of Day My Life with Corin Redgrave by Kika Markham, What do I Know People, Politics and the Arts by Richard Eyre, Covering Shakespeare by David Weston and I Know Nothing The Autobiography by Andrew Sachs.
- 3/4/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Producer Sam Goldwyn thought Anthony Kimmins's tale of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion was about a lovable Scots terrier. Frankly, it might as well have been
• Reel history: Frost/Nixon
• Reel history: Lovelace
Director: Anthony Kimmins
Entertainment grade: D–
History grade: C
In 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie, grandson and heir of the deposed King James II of England and VII of Scotland, arrived in Scotland to attempt to reclaim the throne.
Production
"Bonnie Prince Charlie was one of those huge florid extravaganzas that reek of disaster from the start," star David Niven admitted. Halfway through the nine-month shoot, Niven cabled producer Sam Goldwyn: "I have now worked every day for five months on this picture and nobody can tell me how the story ends stop advise." Goldwyn couldn't help: according to Niven's biographer, Sheridan Morley, he thought the movie was called "Charlie Bonnie", and was "apparently under the mistaken impression that...
• Reel history: Frost/Nixon
• Reel history: Lovelace
Director: Anthony Kimmins
Entertainment grade: D–
History grade: C
In 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie, grandson and heir of the deposed King James II of England and VII of Scotland, arrived in Scotland to attempt to reclaim the throne.
Production
"Bonnie Prince Charlie was one of those huge florid extravaganzas that reek of disaster from the start," star David Niven admitted. Halfway through the nine-month shoot, Niven cabled producer Sam Goldwyn: "I have now worked every day for five months on this picture and nobody can tell me how the story ends stop advise." Goldwyn couldn't help: according to Niven's biographer, Sheridan Morley, he thought the movie was called "Charlie Bonnie", and was "apparently under the mistaken impression that...
- 9/12/2013
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
Judges reward 'surprising, hilarious and wise' follow-up to British actor's first autobiography Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins
Rupert Everett has won this year's Sheridan Morley prize for his second autobiography, Vanished Years.
The memoir, which takes its title from Noël Coward's last poem, picks up the actor's story in the last decade with a generous helping of Proustian flashbacks en route. It's Everett's second memoir, following his 2006 publication Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, which detailed his rise to fame after starring in the film of Julian Mitchell's boarding school-set drama Another Country, at 25.
Everett, currently starring as Oscar Wilde in the West End production of David Hare's The Judas Kiss, has described the latest instalment "a middle-aged book" on account of its romantic nostalgia.
Published in September, Vanished Years was widely and lavishly praised in reviews, with the Guardian critic Talitha Stevenson describing it as "a tragical comical,...
Rupert Everett has won this year's Sheridan Morley prize for his second autobiography, Vanished Years.
The memoir, which takes its title from Noël Coward's last poem, picks up the actor's story in the last decade with a generous helping of Proustian flashbacks en route. It's Everett's second memoir, following his 2006 publication Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, which detailed his rise to fame after starring in the film of Julian Mitchell's boarding school-set drama Another Country, at 25.
Everett, currently starring as Oscar Wilde in the West End production of David Hare's The Judas Kiss, has described the latest instalment "a middle-aged book" on account of its romantic nostalgia.
Published in September, Vanished Years was widely and lavishly praised in reviews, with the Guardian critic Talitha Stevenson describing it as "a tragical comical,...
- 2/27/2013
- by Matt Trueman
- The Guardian - Film News
A political radical, as an actor he excelled at playing tortured establishment figures
Corin Redgrave, who has died aged 70, was both a formidable actor and a strenuous political activist. But, while it is fashionably easy to suggest that his career was blighted by his political activities, I suspect his talent was intimately related to his radical political convictions. And, if he enjoyed a golden theatrical rebirth from the late 1980s onwards, it may have had less to do with politics than with his determination to inherit the mantle of his revered father. Before he suffered a severe heart attack in 2005, Redgrave's later years yielded some of his finest work.
Redgrave was born, in London, into the theatrical purple. His father, Sir Michael, was both a great classical actor and a popular film star; his mother, Rachel Kempson, was also a distinguished actor. Educated at Westminster school, Redgrave won a scholarship to King's College,...
Corin Redgrave, who has died aged 70, was both a formidable actor and a strenuous political activist. But, while it is fashionably easy to suggest that his career was blighted by his political activities, I suspect his talent was intimately related to his radical political convictions. And, if he enjoyed a golden theatrical rebirth from the late 1980s onwards, it may have had less to do with politics than with his determination to inherit the mantle of his revered father. Before he suffered a severe heart attack in 2005, Redgrave's later years yielded some of his finest work.
Redgrave was born, in London, into the theatrical purple. His father, Sir Michael, was both a great classical actor and a popular film star; his mother, Rachel Kempson, was also a distinguished actor. Educated at Westminster school, Redgrave won a scholarship to King's College,...
- 4/6/2010
- by Michael Billington
- The Guardian - Film News
Elizabeth Taylor held up actress and singer Liza Minnelli's wedding this weekend - after she forgot her shoes. Taylor, who was acting as Maid Of Honor at Liza's New York nuptials with David Gest, arrived at the scheduled ceremony time - 5pm - without make-up and wearing slippers, according to guest Ruth Leon. Leon, whose husband Sheridan Morley was friends with Minnelli's screen icon mother Judy Garland, reveals, "It was Liz who was late. She didn't turn up until 5pm, and without make-up and in her bedroom slippers. "Having forgot her shoes, most of the delay was in sending back to the hotel for them. Actor Robert Wagner was, from all accounts, furious, especially as the previous night at the rehearsal, she had sent word she wanted to go on stage first, thus making her the center of attention throughout the procession. "he idea was vetoed by the other maid, Marisa Berenson." The ceremony, at Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue, eventually went ahead at 6pm without too many hitches, even though Taylor proceeded to struggle with the wedding rings, necessitating Best Man Michael Jackson's helpful intervention.
- 3/19/2002
- WENN
Legendary British actor Sir John Gielgud was terrorised by his live-in lover of 35 years' standing. Martin Hensler shared the Arthur star's mansion in Buckinghamshire, England, but was brutal towards the actor and alienated many of his friends. The shocking revelations come in a new biography of Gielgud by respected author Sheridan Morley who is steeped in the theatrical tradition. His father was Robert Morley and grandmother was Dame Gladys Cooper. Anti-social Hensler would constantly denigrate Gielgud's acting abilities but the actor accepted the barrage of insults with quiet grace. Hensler on meeting new people would ask, "Are you rich? Are you famous? Are you homosexual?" If he liked the answers he would continue the conversation.
- 4/27/2001
- WENN
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