Roberts Idols of the Odeons

Post-war British film stardom
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4704-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester University Press

This book provides an extensive overview of the British actors who achieved their greatest stardom during the 1950s. This was a transitional period for the British cinema, when the major studios faced growing competition from television and Hollywood increasingly dominated the UK film industry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberts, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Senior leads: meet the chaps
Jack Hawkins: ‘stand by, number one’
John Mills: ‘do push off, there’s a good chap’
Kenneth More: hawling like a brooligan
Younger leading men
Stanley Baker: the British Brando?
Laurence Harvey: the talented Mr. Skikne
Leading ladies
Sylvia Syms: never your typical ‘nice blonde’
Britain’s bad blonde: the one and only Diana Dors
The comics
Norman Wisdom: ‘Mr. Grimsdale!’
Terry-Thomas and Leslie Phillips: a tale of two cads
Ladies and gentlemen of character
Sidney James: Jo’burg’s favourite cockney
James Robertson Justice: ‘what’s the bleeding time?’
Not to be crossed: Margaret Rutherford
Hattie Jacques: matron and mistress of misrule
The art of screen acting
Peter Finch: the ‘actor’s actor?’
Peter Sellers: ‘there used to be a me but I had him surgically removed’
Conclusion
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Roberts is an independent scholar