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With a host of stories of a life devoted to acting, of fellow actors and directors from Orson Welles to David Niven, Maggie Smith to Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave to Kenneth Tynan, Joan Plowright also recalls a career that has continued to flourish in the year since Olivier's death.. She talks intimately about life with Olivier - not always easy as she is the first to admit. She recall

• Title : And That's Not All: The Memoirs of Joan Plowright (Windsor Selection)
• Author : Joan Plowright
• Rating : 4.63 (737 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-3-12
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 360 Pages
• Asin : 0754018040
• Language : English

With a host of stories of a life devoted to acting, of fellow actors and directors from Orson Welles to David Niven, Maggie Smith to Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave to Kenneth Tynan, Joan Plowright also recalls a career that has continued to flourish in the year since Olivier's death.. She talks intimately about life with Olivier - not always easy as she is the first to admit. She recalls what began as an illicit romance by drawing on the love letters they wrote to each other. Joan Plowright was already a rising star when she met Olivier, then married to Vivien Leigh, who thanks to "Gone with the Wind", was one of the country's best-known actresses

As he writes, "Given the later insistence upon Wood's sturdy masculinity and embodiment of Midwestern morality, it is surprising to note the frequency and candor of these early references to his homosexuality."To take just one example, Wood's friend MacKinlay Kantor (who won later fame as a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and screenwriter) wrote in his gossip column for the Des Moines Tribune-Capital, emphasizing Wood's bachelorhood: "Pink of face and plump of figure, he was most nearly in character one night when he appeared at a costume party dressed as an angel -- wings, pink flannel nightie, pink toes, and even a halo, supported by a stick thrusting up his back."Not only did Kantor link Wood's costume to common stereotypes of the "fairy," but after comparing Wood to Snow White, who lay imprisoned in a glass coffin awaiting her prince's kiss, Kantor wrote: "The front door of his apartment is made of glass, but it's a coffin lid. Knowledge of the actual historical events -- Loui

Her three children, all involved in the theatre. . About the Author Joan Plowright was educated in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. She made her first professional appearance aged 19 at the Croydon Rep. Since then she has starred on both sides of the Atlantic and in recent years worked increasingly in films (most recently 101 Dalmatians and Tea With Mussolini) winning two Golden Globe Awards. She made her name in Arnold Wesker's Roots, then went on to London's Royal Court Theatre in its 1950s heyday

. She made her name in Arnold Wesker's Roots, then went on to London's Royal Court Theatre in its 1950s heyday. She made her first professional appearance aged 19 at the Croydon Rep. Since then she has starred on both sides of the Atlantic and in recent years worked increasingly in films (most recently 101 Dalmatians and Tea With Mussolini) winning two Golden Globe Awards. Her three children, all involved in the theatre. Joan Plowright was educated in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire