Scenes From My Life
by Judi Dench
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Judi Dench is Britain's best-loved actress of our time. Her very name encourages a warm and admiring response from the public, whether for Shakespearean performances or in the contemporary theatre, or on TV (the series A FINE ROMANCE and AS TIME GOES BY) or in the cinema (MRS BROWN, her Oscar-winning performance in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, IRIS and four James Bond films as 'M'). Now she opens her photograph albums publicly for the first time, contributing substantial career reminiscences and show more captions to pictures from throughout her seventy years. The private albums are augmented by photographs showing her work across 50 years of acting - on stage, film and TV. Here are previously unseen pictures of Judi's happy childhood in York, schooldays and her first work as an amateur actor in her teens in York. We see her growing up, drama school and the performance that made her name as Juliet in Franco Zefferilli's famous and controversial production at the Old Vic when Judi was in her early twenties. To these are added informal shots back stage and off set, as well as photographs of her own family, her actor husband Michael Williams, daughter Finty and grandson Sam. Britain's much loved Judi Dench as you have never seen her before. show lessTags
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Lovely photos! Reading this book feels as if you are sitting down with Judi Dench herself as she turns pages in her scrapbook, commenting along the way. At the end is a complete list of her roles up to 2005. She says she will never retire. So the list goes on! Good for us.
A wonderful picture book of a truly wonderful woman. Judi Dench is one of my favortite actresses and also one of my favorite celebrities. She is beautiful and she makes all of her characters very real and believable. She seems to be able to really have fun with life. We can learn from that.
Tried to listen to the audiobook on a road trip. Total snoozer- didn't even make it through the first cd.
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Scenes From My Life
- Original publication date
- 2005
- People/Characters
- Judi Dench
Classifications
- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 792.028092 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Theater: Plays, Ballet, Opera modified standard subdivisions Techniques, procedures, apparatus, equipment, materials, miscellany Acting and Performance History, geographic treatment, biography Biography
- LCC
- PN2598 .D447 .J83 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Dramatic representation. The theater Special regions or countries
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- 103
- Popularity
- 312,898
- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.91)
- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 2
