Notes on a Cowardly Lion Notes on a Cowardly Lion

Notes on a Cowardly Lion

The Biography of Bert Lahr

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Publisher Description

John Lahr’s stunning and complex biography of his father, the legendary actor and comedian Bert Lahr
 
Notes on a Cowardly Lion is John Lahr’s masterwork: an all-encompassing biography of his father, the comedian and performer Bert Lahr. Best known as the Cowardly Lion in MGM’s classic The Wizard of Oz, Lahr was a consummate artist whose career spanned burlesque, vaudeville, Broadway, and Hollywood. While he could be equally raucous and polished in public, Lahr was painfully insecure and self-absorbed in private, keeping his family at arm’s length as he quietly battled his inner demons.
 
Told with an impressive objectivity and keen understanding of the construction—and destruction—of the performer, Notes on a Cowardly Lion is more than one man’s quest to understand his father; it is an extraordinary examination of a life in American show business.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2013
January 22
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
394
Pages
PUBLISHER
Open Road Media
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
10
MB
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