Views from the balcony
Subtitle: a biography of Catherine Duncan
By: by Michael Keane
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Melbourne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781921394577
Subjects: Actresses; Biography; Motion picture actors and actresses; Motion picture producers and directors; Australian Women dramatists
Description: This is the remarkable and revealing story of Catherine Duncan, a leading Australian actress and playwright during the golden years of radio, the winner - along with Peter Finch - of the 1947 Macquarie Award and Australia's first official female film director: a woman with such belief in herself that she could begin a radio talk with the statement, "History begins with me!" Replete with romance and adventure, this biography traces her early years in Melbourne, her association with the radical New Theatre, her several marriages and ultimate decision to spend more than half her life in Paris where she joined the vibrant literary and artistic circles of those decades.
Notes: Includes index.