On The Way I Lost It - Signed Copy
Merchant: Oxfam
Merchant's Category: Media> Books
From the front blurb: "On The Way I Lost It is a fascinatingly different show business autobiography by one of the greatest comedians of our time - Frankie Howerd. Readers will certainly laugh at his story - but will also gain a deep insight into the man himself. It is a story full of ironies. In fact, everything stems from a basic paradox; that the young Francis Alick Howerd was a nervous, stammering, clumsy and introspective youth, terrified of appearing in public - yet desperately anxious to get on the stage! After six years in the army - a series of inevitably zany disasters - he finally became a professional comedian. Films, TV, pantomime, revue, Royal shows, even Shakespeare ('Bottom' at the Old Vic) were to follow before Frankie Howerd made what he describes as 'the worst of error of judgement of my entire life'. So to a down period of long, darkening years that resulted in the decision to quit show business altogether and open a pub. But he didn't: an extraordinary, freakish combination of circumstances reminded the world of his exceptional talents, led to a star role in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, and then to TV's enormous hit, Up Pompeii. While this is certainly an immensely funny book, packed with glorious anecdotes about show business, send-up stories about himself, tales of 'bewildering' successes and often hilarious flops... On The Way I Lost It is also an honest and revealing book about the man behind the clown." This copy is signed by Frankie Howerd on the front-facing endpaper. Otherwise no annotations or highlights throughout. D/j is in very good condition.
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