Author: Lawrence K. Lunt
Publisher: Affiliated Writers of America/Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Leave Me My Spirit
Author: Lawrence K. Lunt
Publisher: Affiliated Writers of America/Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher: Affiliated Writers of America/Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Design for Living
Author: Margot Peters
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307425517
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
From the much-admired biographer of Charlotte Brontë, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, and the Barrymores (“Margot Peters is surely now . . . our foremost historian of stage make-believe”—Leon Edel), a new biography of the most famous English-speaking acting team of the twentieth century. Individually, they were recognized as extraordinary actors, each one a star celebrated, imitated, sought after. Together, they were legend. The Lunts. A name to conjure with. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne worked together so imaginatively, so seamlessly onstage that they seemed to fuse into one person. Offstage, they brawled so famously and raucously over every detail of every performance that they inspired the musical Kiss Me, Kate. At home on Broadway, in London’s West End, touring the United States and Great Britain, and even playing “the foxhole circuit” of World War II, the Lunts stunned, moved, and mystified audiences for more than four decades. They were considered to be a rarefied taste, but when they toured Texas in the 1930s, the audience threw cowboy hats onto the stage. Their private life was equally fascinating, as unusual as the one they led in public. Friends like the critic Alexander Woollcott (whom Edna Ferber once described as “the little New Jersey Nero who thinks his pinafore is a toga”), Noël Coward, Laurette Taylor, and Sidney Greenstreet received lifelong loyalty and hospitality. Ten Chimneys, their country home in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin, “is to performers what the Vatican is to Catholics,” Carol Channing once said. “The Lunts are where we all spring from.” In this new biography, Margot Peters catches the magic of Lunt and Fontanne—their period, their work, their intimacy and its contradictions—with candor, delicacy, intelligence, and wit. She writes about their personal and creative choices as deftly as she captures their world, from their meeting (backstage, naturally)—when Fontanne was a young actress in the first flush of stardom and Lunt a lanky midwesterner who came in the stage door, bowed to her elaborately, lost his balance, and fell down the stairs—and the early days when an unknown and very hungry Noël Coward lived in a swank hotel in a room the size of a closet and cadged meals at their table to the telegram the famous couple once sent to a movie mogul, turning down a studio contract worth a fortune (“We can be bought, my dear Mr. Laemmle, but we can’t be bored”). We follow the Lunts through triumphs in plays such as The Guardsman, The Taming of the Shrew, and Design for Living; through friendships and feuds; through the intricate way they worked with such playwrights and directors as S. N. Behrman, Robert Sherwood, Giraudoux, Dürrenmatt, Peter Brook, and with each other. Margot Peters captures the gallantry of two remarkably gifted people who lived for their art and for each other. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were once described as an “amazing duet of intelligence and gaiety.” Margot Peters re-creates the fun and the fireworks.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307425517
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
From the much-admired biographer of Charlotte Brontë, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, and the Barrymores (“Margot Peters is surely now . . . our foremost historian of stage make-believe”—Leon Edel), a new biography of the most famous English-speaking acting team of the twentieth century. Individually, they were recognized as extraordinary actors, each one a star celebrated, imitated, sought after. Together, they were legend. The Lunts. A name to conjure with. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne worked together so imaginatively, so seamlessly onstage that they seemed to fuse into one person. Offstage, they brawled so famously and raucously over every detail of every performance that they inspired the musical Kiss Me, Kate. At home on Broadway, in London’s West End, touring the United States and Great Britain, and even playing “the foxhole circuit” of World War II, the Lunts stunned, moved, and mystified audiences for more than four decades. They were considered to be a rarefied taste, but when they toured Texas in the 1930s, the audience threw cowboy hats onto the stage. Their private life was equally fascinating, as unusual as the one they led in public. Friends like the critic Alexander Woollcott (whom Edna Ferber once described as “the little New Jersey Nero who thinks his pinafore is a toga”), Noël Coward, Laurette Taylor, and Sidney Greenstreet received lifelong loyalty and hospitality. Ten Chimneys, their country home in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin, “is to performers what the Vatican is to Catholics,” Carol Channing once said. “The Lunts are where we all spring from.” In this new biography, Margot Peters catches the magic of Lunt and Fontanne—their period, their work, their intimacy and its contradictions—with candor, delicacy, intelligence, and wit. She writes about their personal and creative choices as deftly as she captures their world, from their meeting (backstage, naturally)—when Fontanne was a young actress in the first flush of stardom and Lunt a lanky midwesterner who came in the stage door, bowed to her elaborately, lost his balance, and fell down the stairs—and the early days when an unknown and very hungry Noël Coward lived in a swank hotel in a room the size of a closet and cadged meals at their table to the telegram the famous couple once sent to a movie mogul, turning down a studio contract worth a fortune (“We can be bought, my dear Mr. Laemmle, but we can’t be bored”). We follow the Lunts through triumphs in plays such as The Guardsman, The Taming of the Shrew, and Design for Living; through friendships and feuds; through the intricate way they worked with such playwrights and directors as S. N. Behrman, Robert Sherwood, Giraudoux, Dürrenmatt, Peter Brook, and with each other. Margot Peters captures the gallantry of two remarkably gifted people who lived for their art and for each other. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were once described as an “amazing duet of intelligence and gaiety.” Margot Peters re-creates the fun and the fireworks.
Henry Lunt Biography
Author: Evelyn K. Jones
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312051078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Henry Lunt Biography and history of the development of southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico by Evelyn K. Jones and York F. Jones. Original print of the book was in 1996. Because of the inability to reprint the original book, this is a scanned reproduction of the original book by Lyn Marie Jones Turek, the daughter of York and Evelyn Jones.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312051078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Henry Lunt Biography and history of the development of southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico by Evelyn K. Jones and York F. Jones. Original print of the book was in 1996. Because of the inability to reprint the original book, this is a scanned reproduction of the original book by Lyn Marie Jones Turek, the daughter of York and Evelyn Jones.
Elno J Lunt: Man of Faith
Author: Annette Lunt Hunter
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365564053
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The autobiography and life story of Elno James Lunt of Duncan, Arizona. His stories and experience of a lifetime of faith.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365564053
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The autobiography and life story of Elno James Lunt of Duncan, Arizona. His stories and experience of a lifetime of faith.
The Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge, 1848-1879
Author: Dolly Lunt Burge
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820328596
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Having moved from Maine with her physician husband in the 1840s, Dolly lost her husband and her only living child to illness by the time she began the diary at age thirty. A devout and self-sufficient schoolteacher, she soon married her second husband, Thomas Burge, a planter and widowed father of four. Upon his death in 1858, Dolly ran the plantation independently through the Civil War, remaining on the land during Sherman's infamous march through the area. After making the transition from slave labor to tenant farming, Dolly was married a third and final time to the Rev. William Parks, a prominent Methodist minister.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820328596
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Having moved from Maine with her physician husband in the 1840s, Dolly lost her husband and her only living child to illness by the time she began the diary at age thirty. A devout and self-sufficient schoolteacher, she soon married her second husband, Thomas Burge, a planter and widowed father of four. Upon his death in 1858, Dolly ran the plantation independently through the Civil War, remaining on the land during Sherman's infamous march through the area. After making the transition from slave labor to tenant farming, Dolly was married a third and final time to the Rev. William Parks, a prominent Methodist minister.
A Discourse in Commemoration of Rev. William Parsons Lunt
Author: Chandler Robbins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, American
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, American
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Paul Lunt's Diary
Author: Paul Lunt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book
Author: American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
Old Church Slavonic Grammar
Author: Horace G. Lunt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110876884
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Old Church Slavonic Grammar".
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110876884
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Old Church Slavonic Grammar".
Essex-county History and Directory
Author: C. A. Wood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description