A Terrible Liar: A MemoirActor Hume Cronyn reminisces about his fifty-year marriage to Jessica Tandy and about his encounters with such stage and screen greats as Elia Kazan, Alfred Hitchcock, and John Gielgud |
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A TERRIBLE LIAR: A Memoir
User Review - KirkusIntelligent, candid, humorously self-deprecating: the memoirs (only up to 1965, alas) of an actor's actor on stage and screen— who also turns out to be a stylish raconteur, an intrepid adventurer ... Read full review
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| Title | A Terrible Liar: A Memoir |
| Author | Hume Cronyn |
| Publisher | Morrow, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0688100805, 9780688100803 |
| Length | 431 pages |
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