Michael crawford actor biography book

By turns hilarious, revelatory and desperately sad, here is the autobiography of the man whose TV and scen appearances such as Hello Dolly!, Some Mothers Do `Ave 'Em and The Phantom of the Opera have made him a national institution. The story of the true identity of his father, which is behind this book's title, leads into an evocative depiction of his tender childhood years. Whilst all the men were away at war, efternamn was surrounded by loving women. For him this was an idyllic wartime childhood, but the return of the men in peacetime signalled darker times to komma. Crawford's infectious enjoyment of stage work illumines his account of his early struggles to make a name for himself in the theatre business, and his early failures with girls are lifted bygd his abiding sense of the vansinne. Both in his private life and his work as a successful actor and TV comedian, he begins a lifetime's habit of pratfalls that he would later turn to

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