On Stage with Bette Davis - Dearinger, Kevin Lane
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A reflection on one of Broadway's most iconic flops, this memoir follows a musical that featured one of the silver screen's most powerful personalities. Bette Davis was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and twice won the Best Actress award, starring in classics like Jezebel, The Letter, The Little Foxes, All About Eve and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, among many more. In 1974, the living legend agreed to star in Miss Moffat, a musical adaptation of Emlyn Williams' The Corn in Green. Expectations were high, but Miss Moffat opened and then abruptly closed, leading theatre gossips to…mehr

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A reflection on one of Broadway's most iconic flops, this memoir follows a musical that featured one of the silver screen's most powerful personalities. Bette Davis was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and twice won the Best Actress award, starring in classics like Jezebel, The Letter, The Little Foxes, All About Eve and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, among many more. In 1974, the living legend agreed to star in Miss Moffat, a musical adaptation of Emlyn Williams' The Corn in Green. Expectations were high, but Miss Moffat opened and then abruptly closed, leading theatre gossips to speculate on what went wrong. Early in his career, Kevin Lane Dearinger, a young actor who had recently relocated to New York, landed a minor role in Miss Moffat. Inexperienced and unsure of himself, he kept a journal of his observations and experiences throughout production. He observed the older and more seasoned Miss Davis, who seemed determined to remain clear-headed despite the unfolding calamity. In this book, Dearinger revisits his journal to reflect on his own life, a fated stage production, his experience with an entertainment legend and a bygone era of Broadway.
Autorenporträt
Kevin Lane Dearinger is a retired actor-singer and former English teacher. His publications include The Bard in the Bluegrass; Marie Prescott; Clyde Fitch and the American Theatre; Eleanor Robson Belmont, a Theatrical Life; five other poetry collections: Moth and Wasp, Caught in the Devotion of Time, Rose Cloud and Demon Thunder, This Mortal Coil, and Cold As a Silver Spoon; and two memoirs: Bad Sex in Kentucky and On Stage with Bette Davis: Inside the Fabulous Flop of Miss Moffat. His published plays, available for new productions, include Regarding Mrs. Carter, Naked on Request, Four Squares on a Kentucky Quilt, Three Short Plays, and Expiation. For WUKY Radio and the AthensWest Theatre Company, he contributed scenes to Limestone 1833 and abridged Oscar Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest. He has contributed several introductory essays to the work of others and chronicled the artistic life of The Lexington Theatre Company. His poems have also appeared in a variety of journals and magazines. His writing attempts to keep time with his Kentucky heritage, his love of family, his LGBTQ identity, his recognition of time lost, and his own erratic pulse.