ISBN 978 0 646 47322 2
Published
2007 by
Dr Barb Angell,
Bundanoon, NSW 2578
Australia
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FEEDBACK:
Jill
Perryman (Australian entertainer) - "I loved the book !! ... Your
writing made me feel you knew her personally." (July 20, 2007)
Gareth
Hagger-Johnson (Edinburgh, Scotland) - "... what a
character she was. I'll be
recommending to several friends." (July 20, 2007).
Rita
Pettigrew (Dublin, Ireland) - "It was
just fantastic - a great read from start to finish, a book which I
would not
hesitate to recommend." (July 20, 2007)
Dianne
Dempsey (The Age, Melbourne) - "Hats off to Angell for
beckoning Miss Coral Browne, once more, to the limelight." (June 30,
2007)
Peter Rose
(Sydney Morning Herald)
- "...rich in detail, exhaustive in its coverage and supported by
anedcodes from dozens of actors who knew and (mostly) adored the
spirited Australian." (23-24 June, 2007)
Frith
Banbury (Broadway and West End director)
- "It was wonderful to live with Coral again, and there were several
incidents and Coral-ish comments that were new to me. I thoroughly
enjoyed reading it." (19 June 2007)
Gavin
Millar (Film and TV director) - "It's not just a good
laugh but it's so touching too..." (June 12, 2007)
Tom Lee
(actor-writer)
- "I read it at one sitting... an entertaining and intriguing subject -
one that many people thought they knew, but they'll get an
eye-opener..." (8 June 2007)
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May, 2007)
*Thumbnail:
Coral Browne was Australian and
incredibly mega-famous, though few
Australians have heard of her. Australia had a habit of writing-off
anyone with the cheek to leave Australia and actually make good abroad
- especially if they remained abroad. Coral was one of those and the
media here stopped reporting much about her from around 1940 -
which happened to coincide with some of her greatest triumphs at the
Savoy Theatre including My Sister
Eileen. Travel was not as easy then as now, so she couldn’t
do a
Cate Blanchett or a Kylie Minogue and commute between jobs. Nor could
she do a Russell Crowe or a Judy Davis and get herself hired while
still living in Australia. It simply didn’t happen then. So Coral
Browne left Australia in 1934
at age 20, having already made a
big name here with Gregan McMahon's Playhouse and with JC Williamson,
and went to London with a return boat
ticket, to try her luck. She re-visited Oz only twice: in 1948 to
attend her grandmother’s wedding - yes, wedding - and in 1980 as the
wife of Vincent Price - yes, that Vincent Price.
I
started researching Coral’s papers in 1997 and would have
released
this book much sooner except that I got commissioned to write another
biography and someone was kind enough to pay me to do that research.
Payment in advance tends to get my attention, so Coral was put on hold.
Anyway I went back to her after my first biography A
Woman’s War went
into its second edition (plug, plug) and resumed our loving
relationship in 2003. The child of our union is this superb book "The
Coral Browne Story" and you now know where the title comes from.