Andrew Roberts

Idols of the Odeons (eBook, ePUB)

Post-war British film stardom

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Idols of the Odeons examines British film stardom in the post-war era, a time when Hollywood movies were increasingly supplanting the Pinewood/Elstree studio system. The book encompasses the careers of sixteen actors, including Stanley Baker, Diana Dors, Norman Wisdom, Hattie Jacques, Peter Finch and Peter Sellers. Such extremely diverse careers provide the opportunity to explore overlooked films, in addition to examining how the term 'star' could apply to a stalwart leading man, a Variety comic, a self-created 'Vamp' and a character actor. Above all, this is a book that celebrates, with idiosyncratic humour and warmth, how these actors accomplished much of their best work during the transitional period between the Rank/ABPC roster of stars and the US domination of the British film industry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526147028
• Artikelnr.: 59212861

Autorenporträt

Andrew Roberts is a husband, father, minister, writer and speaker. He is the author of the book Holy Habits (Malcolm Down Publishing, 2016) and co-editor of the BRF Holy Habits resource booklets. He was previously director of training for Fresh Expressions.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Senior leads: meet the chaps Jack Hawkins: 'stand by, number
one' John Mills: 'do push off, there's a good chap' Kenneth More: hawling
like a brooligan Younger leading men Stanley Baker: the British Brando?
Laurence Harvey: the talented Mr. Skikne Leading ladies Sylvia Syms: never
your typical 'nice blonde' Britain's bad blonde: the one and only Diana
Dors The comics Norman Wisdom: 'Mr. Grimsdale!' Terry-Thomas and Leslie
Phillips: a tale of two cads Ladies and gentlemen of character Sidney
James: Jo'burg's favourite cockney James Robertson Justice: 'what's the
bleeding time?' Not to be crossed: Margaret Rutherford Hattie Jacques:
matron and mistress of misrule The art of screen acting Peter Finch: the
'actor's actor?' Peter Sellers: 'there used to be a me but I had him
surgically removed' Conclusion Index