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William Gillette, America's Sherlock Holmes [Hardcover] Zecher, Henry
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Item specifics
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- EAN
- 9781453555811
- ISBN
- 9781453555811
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Xlibris Corporation LLC
ISBN-10
1453555811
ISBN-13
9781453555811
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109068220
Product Key Features
Book Title
William Gillette, America's Sherlock Holmes
Number of Pages
734 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Entertainment & Performing Arts
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
43.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2010-915524
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
792.4302/8092
Synopsis
William Gillette is best-remembered today as the living personification of Sherlock Holmes, but he was much more than that. He was one of the nineteenth century's greatest stars, among its most successful actors and playwrights. In a career spanning six decades, he was one of the best-known celebrities in the Western world, a towering figure in an age of towering figures. Among his friends were Mark Twain, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodore Roosevelt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thomas Nast and Maurice Barrymore. He built a castle on the Connecticut River and a miniature railroad to run around it. Among the guests who rode on that train were President Calvin Coolidge, physicist Albert Einstein and Tokyo Mayor Ozaki Yukio, who gave to America the cherry blossoms in 1912. James M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, wrote two hit plays for which he specifically asked Gillette to star in. As a playwright, Gillette was known for the stark realism of his sets, costuming, dialogue and actions. He developed realistic and dramatic lighting and sound effects. As an actor, he developed the philosophy of The Illusion of the First Time, in which an actor speaks his lines and moves about each night, not as he has done a hundred times before, but as if he is making up his dialogue as he goes along, and moving about as if doing so for the first time, as real people do. Gillette's intention was to reproduce as much as possible the real world on stage, to make his audiences believe they were seeing a life episode being lived across the barrier of the footlights. This magnificent biography is the first full treatment of Gillette ever published. Exhaustively researched, thoroughly documented, and beautifully written, it not only details the life of this extraordinary man, it provides a colorful context of the times in which he lived. This is a major part of the history of the Western theater finally documented for our edification and enjoyment.
LC Classification Number
PN2287.G54Z43 2011
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- d***h (3676)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchasefast shipping
- c***m (490)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseThis book looks like I’ll be the first one ever read it. FYI, John Penton died last week at age 100 so there will be lots of interest in the book and 2012 movie about his life.
- Automatische Bewertung von eBay- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthBestellung erfolgreich durchgeführt - mit Sendungsverfolgung und fristgerecht