Actors Talk About Acting

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 442 pages
• Published by: Avon June 1961
• ISBN 10 Number: 0380010062
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0380010066

Reader Reviews
Stories from the giants of the golden age of movie acting - men and women who came up through the ranks to the top of their most competitive profession. The actors are: Sir John Gielgud, Vivien Leigh, Shelley Winters, Helen Hayes, Morris Carnovsky, Bert Lahr, and Sidney Poitier. Great stories and great advice for audience and actor alike. From the cover: "I've read ACTORS TALK ABOUT ACTING and I've had a marvelous time. It's more fun and more exciting than a mystery. What wonderful new insights you get into people you thought you knew. It's very revealing." --Samuel Taylor, author of the Broadway hits Sabrina Fair, The Pleasure at His Company and No Strings "The range of experience in the Funke-Booth book is not the least striking thing about it--from John Gielgud, born to the theatre and talking precisely and in subtly defined terms about it, to Yorkville's Bert Lahr, no less rewarding when he describes the importance, to a comedian like himself, of creating the image of sympathy. Starry-eyed aspirants may jump when they hear Shelley Winters admitting the part that calculated displays of temperament have played in her career, Sidney Poitier saying that he turned to the theater in lieu of any way to make a living. But that very candor adds practical value to an already valuable work." New York Herald-Tribune "In that rare accomplishment of the book business, we have a theatrical book which will be of great interest to the professional performer, the amateur and the layman. In a series of exciting, interesting, entertaining and often revealing interviews, stars of the current theatre talk about acting, talk about themselves and talk about each other. . . . The volume is loaded with anecdotes, miscellanea and memorabilia of the stage; plus a deep inquiry into the methods and The Method of acting." --Actors Equity Magazine