Secret Dreams

Alan Strachan

"Of all the great actors of the twentieth century Michael Redgrave was the most wide ranging in his talent and yet the most private with a personal life of utmost complexity, often secret in its detail." "On stage he was a classical actor of range and greatness who also originated many memorable roles of the leading playwrights of the mid-twentieth century. In the cinema his first part was in Alfred Hitchcock's classic The Lady Vanishes and he went on to be remembered in films as diverse as The Browning Version, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Dam Busters and The Go-Between." "He wrote studies of acting, a novel, even an operetta at university, he adapted Henry James, and directed opera as well as plays. The son of actors, he married an actress and lived to see his children make names for themselves in theatre and films. Since his death several of his grandchildren have become...

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