Marie Prescott
Subtitle: "a star of some brilliancy"
By: Kevin Lane Dearinger.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780838642122
Subjects: Prescott, Marie; Actors -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Gifted daughter": Marie Prescott's family history and early years; title: "The whole burden on her pretty shoulders": Prescott's work to establish herself in the theatrical community; title: "Great things greatly": Prescott's first starring ventures and her seasons with Salvini; title: "For her grief and her good looks": an infamous libel trial and its repercussions; title: "There you show your genius, Mr. Wilde": Prescott prepares Oscar Wilde's Vera; title: "The power to stir": the opening and abrupt closing of Vera; title: "How full of briars is this working-day world": managing a public career after scandal and humiliation; title: "Of course I put forth my best efforts": touring with R.D. Maclean; title: "Slight heed to the incongruities": continuing conflict with the New York press; title: "Brilliant and beautiful for an hour": retirement and early death; title: "Veteran": R.D. Maclean and Odette Tyler; title: "How few are not forgotten": a mother fixation.