The performer's tale : the nine lives of Patience Collier / Vanessa Morton.

"A vivid and compelling biography of Patience Collier - an actress whose career spanned a golden age of performance from the 1930s to the 1980s - and an overview of theatre, film, TV and radio in Britain over half a century. Though Patience Collier's name has faded from public consciousness since he...

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Main Author: Morton, Vanessa (Author)
Language:English
Published: London : Head of Zeus, 2021.
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Physical Description:330 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a The actress, the Marxist and Churchill's daughter -- Comrades -- Voices in the air -- With the firm -- The woman in the black beret -- O sweet Mr Shakespeare! -- Just waiting to play Barbra Streisand's mother -- A person without limits -- Learn to disappear -- Epilogue. 
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