- Gebundene Ausgabe: 344 Seiten
- Verlag: Southern Illinois Univ Pr (9. Dezember 1992)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0809318202
- ISBN-13: 978-0809318209
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 2,4 x 1,6 x 0,3 cm
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The first full-length biography of stage actress Eva Le Gallienne traces her life from her birth into the troubled but fascinating household of Richard Le Gallienne, British writer and intimate member of the Oscar Wilde circle, to her recent death.
This comprehensive biography of the actress Rex Reed called "a national treasure" draws upon Robert A. Schanke’s interviews and correspondence not only with Le Gallienne but also with more than one hundred of her colleagues and friends, including Glenda Jackson, Burgess Meredith, Eli Wallach, Peter Falk, Ellen Burstyn, Anne Jackson, Farley Granger, Jane Alexander, Uta Hagen, and Rosemary Harris. Forty-two illustrations offer highlights of Le Gallienne’s many notable performances in such plays as Hedda Gabler, Liliom, The Cherry Orchard, Peter Pan, Camille, Mary Stuart, The Royal Family, and The Dream Watcher.
Behind her public role as famous actress and as the founding and maintaining force of the first civic repertory theatre in the United States, Eva Le Gallienne led a private life troubled by her personal struggle with lesbianism. For more than fifty years she lived in shadows. Like many lesbians of her generation, she viewed herself as a man trapped in a female body. Because she was unwilling to compromise and hide her true self in a convenient marriage or to camouflage her relationships in order to boost her career, her sexuality became a nemesis that defined her great need for privacy.
Le Gallienne complained that her lesbianism ruined her career. And as Robert Schanke points out, it also influenced her selection of scripts, management practices, and style of acting, ultimately affecting her work’s critical reception. By presenting for the first time this complete account of the life of one of the theatre’s great talents, Schanke provides his audience with a fascinating story that also serves as a barometer of the changing values, tastes, and attitudes of American society.
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A biography of the legendary actress (1899-1991) that fully explores the effects of her lesbianism on her life and career. Schanke draws from interviews with some 100 of Le Gallienne's colleagues and friends, including Jane Alexander, Ellen Burstyn, Peter Falk, Farley Granger, Uta Hagen, Anne Jackson, Glenda Jackson, Burgess Meredith, May Sarton, a
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Poor Eva!
26. Juni 2006
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You know that Eva La Gallienne was probably one of the finest actresses to be on stage during the last century. The only problem is that she was a lesbian which may have prevented her from overshadowing a rival, Helen Hayes, or any one of her contemporaries.
The main problem with Eva was that she clung to the theatrical stage than to television or film. Her appearance on St. Elsewhere was disrupted by her behavior. She was not always kind or fair to her female lovers and companions. Eva was not at all a perfect human being but on stage, she was magnificient even in the Broadway Archives film, "The Royal Family" with another legendary British dame not yet Rosemary Harris playing her daughter.
Eva's sexual orientation did not prevent her from facing cruelty in her own life from outsiders. At the same time, she had her own demons like alcoholism to face. Although she never got the Kennedy Center Honours because she probably wouldn't have attended the ceremony, she was terribly shy and for good reason.
Her relationships with women were always suspected to be more than just friendship. Sometimes they were but not always, in the last years of her life, she lived in Connecticut away from Broadway. She valued her privacy because people speculate too much about somebody's sexual orientation.
The author of this book first met Eva with his wife and daughter twenty years before, ironically 20 years later, he himself has a male partner which he dedicates this book too.
The main problem with Eva was that she clung to the theatrical stage than to television or film. Her appearance on St. Elsewhere was disrupted by her behavior. She was not always kind or fair to her female lovers and companions. Eva was not at all a perfect human being but on stage, she was magnificient even in the Broadway Archives film, "The Royal Family" with another legendary British dame not yet Rosemary Harris playing her daughter.
Eva's sexual orientation did not prevent her from facing cruelty in her own life from outsiders. At the same time, she had her own demons like alcoholism to face. Although she never got the Kennedy Center Honours because she probably wouldn't have attended the ceremony, she was terribly shy and for good reason.
Her relationships with women were always suspected to be more than just friendship. Sometimes they were but not always, in the last years of her life, she lived in Connecticut away from Broadway. She valued her privacy because people speculate too much about somebody's sexual orientation.
The author of this book first met Eva with his wife and daughter twenty years before, ironically 20 years later, he himself has a male partner which he dedicates this book too.
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