{"product_id":"9781911397625-the-final-curtain-obituaries-of-fifty-great-actors-1","title":"Coveney Michael - The Final Curtain Obituaries Of Fifty Great Actors - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: Michael Coveney has been writing theatrical obituaries alongside reviews for several decades and makes a telling sometimes surprising selection of the best performers of our time from Laurence Olivier to Alan Rickman Peggy Ashcroft to Helen Mc Crory Richard Briers to Ken Dodd. Most of these obits appeared in the Guardian several in the Observer the Financial Times and the Evening Standard. The fifty articles are arranged in chronological order of each actor's demise and constitute a vivid history of postwar theatre through the lives of the actors the abstract and brief chronicles of the time as Hamlet called them. There are happy\/sad juxtapositions of shooting stars Robert Stephens and Alan Bates; tragic niece and aunt Natasha Richardson and Lynn Redgrave; classical queens Diana Rigg and Barbara Jefford; and versatile showtime hoofers Una Stubbs and Lionel Blair.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The Final Curtain Obituaries Of Fifty Great Actors\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Coveney Michael, Mia Breuer\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Unicorn Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781911397625\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 256 Pages, 50 Illustrations, Unspecified\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 12\/28\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Biography \u0026amp; True Stories","brand":"Coveney Michael","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49626402816305,"sku":"IN-G-9781911397625","price":32.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781911397625_b0977c96-de50-4095-8795-b14cf7e296db.jpg?v=1724912037","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781911397625-the-final-curtain-obituaries-of-fifty-great-actors-1","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}