Profiles

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The only collection of Tynan's star-studded profiles.

Selected and edited by his widow and biographer, Kathleen Tynan, with a foreword by Simon Callow.

Kenneth Tynan the 20th century's most influential writer on theatre and performance wrote profiles of many of the most significant performers and writers of his day.

Amongst the fifty assembled here are profiles of actors such as Garbo, Bogart, Cagney, Olivier and Gielgud; the directors George Cukor, Peter Brook and Joan Littlewood; writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams; and comedians as diverse as Mel Brooks, Eric Morecambe, W.C. Fields and Lenny Bruce.