Rise and Fall of the Matinee Idol
Subtitle: Past Deities of Stage and Screen, Their Roles, Their Magic, and
Publisher: ST. MARTIN'S PRESS
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York, USA
Format: Hardcover
Table of contents: title: I; title: 3
label: "'Lovely Lily Elsie'" by Cecil Beaton; title: 20
label: "The Role of the Reasoner (Charles Wyndham and George Alexander)" by George Rowell; title: 31
label: "Edwardian Idols of My Youth" by Ivor Brown; title: 39
label: "Father's Footsteps (Gerald du Maurier)" by Daphne du Maurier; title: II; title: 50
label: "From Gladys Cooper to Gertrude Lawrence" by Cecil Beaton; title: 58
label: "Twenty-Five Years of Leading Ladies (and Gentlemen)" by Vivian Ellis; title: 75
label: "Jack, Bobby and Ivor" by Sandy Wilson; title: 85
label: "The Light of Many Lamps" by Micheál Mac Liammóir; title: 89
label: "The Master (Noël Coward)" by Sheridan Morley; title: 99
label: "A Tea-tray in the Stalls" by Philip Hope-Wallace; title: III; title: 108
label: "The Great Days of Broadway" by George Oppenheimer; title: 122
label: "Life with Lillian" by O.Z. Whitehead; title: 132
label: "Sacred Monsters Off and On the Boulevards" by Roland Gant; title: IV; title: 142
label: "The Mute Idols" by David Robinson; title: 153
label: "Time of the Talkies" by Dilys Powell; title: 163
label: "'A Pantheon of Gods' a conversation between George Axelrod and Anthony Curtis"; title: V; title: 170
label: "Cutting My Teeth" by Anthony Curtis; title: 180
label: "The Last Idols?" by Ronald Hayman; title: 188
label: "The Loved Ones" by Anthony Storr; title: 197
label: About the Contributors; title: 201
label: Index