More Please: An Autobiography
by Barry Humphries
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Get a fascinating insight into the man behind the glasses in Barry Humphries' one and only autobiography. Because Barry Humphries has deliberately furnished would-be biographers with whimsical fictions and blatant mystifications, the true details of his life are among the best-kept secrets of our time. More Please, prophetically his first utterance, reveals the man behind the actor. This best-selling book moves from suburban Australia of the 1930s, 40s and 50s to Humphries' international show more stardom, and his revelations and confessions will astonish his vast audience, being so wildly at odds with all that has gone before. show lessTags
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Found this very easy to read. The man behind the face is nothing like his many larger than life characters. You could almost say that he's bigger and better than all of them.
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- Original publication date
- 1992
- People/Characters
- Barry Humphries; Dame Edna Everage; Graham Coles; Pat Bagott; Richard Tauber; Alec Gibson (show all 382); Mrs Gibson; Miss Jensen; Phar Lap; Sarah Meadows; Ned Kelly; Fergus Hume; Jack Meadows; Harold Arlen; Margaret Hamilton; Herb Prentiss; Doris Prentiss; Thelma Scott; Coral Browne; Cliff Jones; Fraser Simpson; Nellie Melba; Donald Bradman; Peter Dawson; John Humphries; Sarah Humphries; Barbara Humphries; Christopher Humphries; Joseph Schmidt; Gene Autry; Dick Humphries; The Angelo Brothers; George VI, King of the United Kingdom; Winston Churchill; Napier Waller; Lou Humphries; Eric Humphries; Charlie Vaud; Mabel Nelson; Nellie Colley; George Tilly; Sid Field; Cyril Fletcher; Jack Hulbert; Cecily Courtneidge; Horace Kenny; John Bromley; Vera Lynn; Canon P. W. Robinson; Robert Hughes; Valmai Grubb; Janet Ballantyne; Ronald Coleman; Harold Blair; Stanley Brown; Ian Bow; Richard Tolley; Whizzer Grant; Ellis Bird; Balfour Gardiner; Paul Klee; Bertrand Russell; Lady Ottoline Morrell; Max Meldrum; Noel Counihan; Robert Menzies; Peter Beer; Michael Humphries; Willi Fritsch; Robert Nathan; Constant Lambert; Edith Sitwell; John Levi; Bishop McKay; Rosemary Gair; George Howe; Leonard Spira; Dennis Farrington; Robert Maclellan; Frank Rich; The Marx Brothers; Helmut Newton; Kevin McBeath; Sir Brian Hone; Frau Steinki; George Bell; John Perry; Stephen Spender; Evan Williams; Graeme Hughes; John Sumner; Alex Scott; Zoe Caldwell; Lord Thyrwhitt; Peter O'Shaughnessy; Stan Deverell; Dennis Hern; Tom Goodridge; Conrad Veidt; George Pravda; Sir Bernard Heinz; Duke Orsino; Stanley Page; Andrew Aguecheek; Ray Lawler; June Browne; Alice Springs; Shirley O'Shaughnessy; Brian Fitzpatrick; John Eddy; Arthur Boyd; John Perceval; Brenda; Peter Batey; Noel Ferrier; Eric Duckworth; William Orr; Francis Greenway; Max Oldaker; Paul Riomfalvy; Gordon Chater; Patrick White; Basil Clissold; Sandy Stone; Beryl Stone; William Dobell; Jim Gussy; Laurence Olivier; Vivien Leigh; Ted James; Les Foxcroft; Sidney Nolan; Peter Finch; Leo McKern; Alan Ridell; Kenneth Slessor; Sir Frank Packer; Philip Stainton; The Bunyip; Arthur Boyd; Professor Higgins; Professor Newton-John; Rona Newton-John; Olivia Newton-John; Clara Eynsford-Hill; Benjamin Britten; Rosalind Tong; The Eltham Group; Clifton Pugh; Germaine Greer; Clement Meadmore; John Reed; Greta Meirs; Reverend Douglas Tasker; Morrie Bardas; Lawrence Daws; Martin Boyd; Charles Osborne; Peter Myers; Ronnie Cass; Eric Maschwitz; Godfrey Winn; Julian Holland; Colin Graham; Disley Jones; Anthony Bowles; Jonas Fogg; Lynn Seymour; John Dexter; Myrette Morven; Angus McBean; Hetty King; G. H. Elliott; Randolph Sutton; Lionel Bart; Ron Moody; Peter Coe; M. P. Shiel; Donald Albery; Peter Cook; Dudley Moore; Steven Vinaver; Carl Davis; Oscar Lewenstein; Sean Kenny; Ian Donaldson; John Gawsworth; Joan Littlewood; Bill Kellaway; Deborah Kellaway; Bryan Robertson; Charles Blackman; Sir Herbert Read; Clifford Hocking; John Betjeman; Elizabeth Cavendish; Osbert Lancaster; Philip Larkin; Kingsley Amis; Maresco Pearce; Augustus John; Charles Conder; John Rothenstein; Amy Halford; Edmund Gosse; Enid Gillespe; Karl Stead; Kay Stead; David Merrick; Davey Jones; Clive Revill; Tessa Humphries; Emily Humphries; Anthony Newley; Alan Bennett; Jonathan Miller; Wendy Cook; The Supremes; Jack Kerouac; Salvador Dalí; Elsa Maxwell; Cole Porter; David Frost; Charlie Blackman; Professor Norman Morris; Eleanor Bron; John Fortune; John Bird; Lewis Morley; Jeffrey Barnard; Bamber Gascoigne; Julian Holland; Nick Luard; Leonard French; John Antrobus; Graham Stark; Michael Gambon; Valentine Dyall; Jacqui Ellis; Colin MacInnes; Angela Thirkell; Edward Burne-Jones; Rudyard Kipling; Muriel Belcher; Malcolm Williamson; Tom Driberg; Elizabeth Smart; John Perceval; Patrick White; Mandy Lascaris; Cynthia Nolan; Heather Firbank; Ronald Firbank; Buster Thompson; Nicholas Garland; Barry McKenzie; Gerald Scarfe; Richard Ingrams; William Rushton; Christopher Logue; Claude Cockburn; Jean Ross; Christopher Isherwood; Sally Bowles; Paul Foot; Christopher Brooker; Barry Fantoni; Nick Garland; Dr. Meyer De Lamphrey; Peter Shaffer; Frank Norman; Lord Sexkilling; Paul Elek; Philip Toynbee; Rachel Roberts; Ted Kotcheff; Kenneth Haigh; Olivia Manning; Georgina Barker; George Barker; Bernard Delfont; Sir Alfred Gilbert; Neil Singleton; Joan Sutherland; John Wells; Andrew Duncan; Tony Holland; Malcolm Muggeridge; Stanley Myers; Ian Davidson; Richard Stilgoe; Lord Snowdon; Joel Gray; Bernard Miles; Sir Donald Wolfit; Ben Gunn; Squire Trelawney; Dr. Laszlo Zador; Don Harris; Brian Graham; Rex Lear; Martin Agrippa; Bruce Beresford; Patrick White; Rhoison Beresford; Hilary Spurling; Kym Bonython; Peter Bridge; Malcolm Muggeridge; Kenneth Tynan; Bernard Levin; John Osborne; Eleanor Fazan; Sachaverell Sitwell; Mischa Spoliansky; Josephine Bradley; Alexander Horace Stone; Diane Millstead; Oscar Humphries; Robert Humphries; David Hockney; Lizzie Spender; Harold Hobson; Herbert Kretzmer; Ginger Rogers; Dennis Main Wilson; Frankie Howerd; Harry Secombe; Marty Feldman; Roslyn Mackrell; Jack Buchanan; Dick Bentley; June Whitfield; Michael Palin; Harry Miller; Nora O'Sullivan; Dr John Moon; Jim Preston; Barry Crocker; Dennis Price; Julie Covington; Philip Adams; Max Harris; Sir Clive Fitz; Tomi Kalinsky; Clyde Packer; Reg Grundy; Jiri Mucha; Alphonse Mucha; Sarah Bernhardt; Donald Pleasance; Reverend Kevin McKenzie; Alister Kershaw; Clive James; Right Honourable Gough Whitlam; Michael White; Peter Bridge; Barrington Bradman Barry McKenzie; June Newton; Ken Thomson; Harold Acton; Arthur Cantor; Brian Thomson; Stephen Sondheim; Charles Addams; Earl McGrath; Barry Manilow; Patrick Tennyson; Paul Oppenheimer; Colin Munro; Bruce Grant; C. K. Stead; Julian Jebb; Julian Harp; Geoffrey Dutton; Ninette Dutton; Peter Coleman; Peter Scrivener; Ronald Waters; Eleanor Fazon; Denton Welch; Debbie Thwaite
- Important places
- Australia; Bellett Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; South Camberwell State School, Camberwell, Victoria, Australia; Burke Road, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Benalla Coffee Palace, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (show all 155); The Warburton Chalet, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Warburton, Queensland, Australia; Darva Lodge, Mount Martha, Victoria, Australia; Ranelagh, Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia; Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia; Port Philip Bay, Victoria, Australia; The Wool Exchange Hotel, Feeling, Victoria, Australia; Healesville, Victoria, Australia; Mount Riddell, Victoria, Australia; Box Hill, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Lilydale, Victoria, Australia; Coombe Cottage, Coldstream, Victoria, Australia; Badger Creek, Victoria, Australia; Imperial Chemical Industries; Marlborough Avenue, Camberwell, Victoria, Australia; Mitzi of Vienna, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; Myer Emporium, Docklands, Victoria, Australia; Mural Hall, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Wattle Tea Rooms, Little Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Camberwell Sports Ground, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Rivoli Picture Theatre, Hawthorn East, Victoria, Australia; The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Ivanhoe, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Eaglemont, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Melbourne General Cemetery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; The Melbourne Grammar School, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Balwyn, Victoria, Australia; Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia; Flinders Street Railway Station, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; St. Mark's Church, Camberwell, Victoria, Autralia; Robertson & Mullens, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Luna Park, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Galleon Coffee Lounge, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; The Society of New Music, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Puckapunyal Military Camp, Victoria, Australia; Seymour, Seymour, Victoria, Australia; Taylor's Coaching School; Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; Leatherhead, Surrey, England, UK; The Vocational Guidance Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Willison Railway Station, Camberwell, Victoria, Australia; Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; The Cathedral Hotel, Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Carlton, Victoria, Australia; Val's Coffee Lounge, Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Savoy Theatre, Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Lansell Crescent, Camberwell, Victoria, Australia; Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Swanston Family Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Melbourne University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Phillip Street Theatre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Kingsford Smith Aerodrome, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; The Rembrandt, Kensington, London, England, UK; The Hasty Tasty, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; St James' Church Hall, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Centennial Park, New South Wales, Australia; Lang Road, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia; Criterion Hotel, Park Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Granville Returned Servicemen's Club, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Phyllis Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Granville, New South Wales, Australia; Wynyard railway station, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; The Assembly Hotel, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Macquarie Studios, Macquarie Park, New South Wales, Australia; Sydney Opera House, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Dunmoochin Artists Society, Cottles Bridge, Victoria, Australia; Greta Meirs School of Charm; Brighton, Victoria, Australia; Venice, Veneto, Italy; Vicenza, Veneto, Italy; English Speaking Union, Charles Street, London, England, UK (headquarters); Mayfair, London, England, UK; Elgin Crescent, Ladbroke Grove, London, England, UK; Notting Hill, London, England, UK; Bishop's Bridge Road, London, England, UK; Holland Park Avenue, London, England, UK; Wall's Ice Cream Factory, Acton, London, England, UK; Oxford Street, London, England, UK; Del Monico's Soho, London, England, UK; Metropolitan Music Hall, London, England, UK; The Salisbury, Harringay, London, England, UK; The Lambard Flag, Rose Court; Westbourne Grove, London, England, UK; Portobello Road, London, England, UK; The Cambridge Theatre, Camden, London, England, UK; Cornwall, England, UK; The Tinner's Arms, Zennor, Cornwall, England, UK; The Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, London, England, UK; Grove Terrace and Highgate Road, Highgate, London, England, UK; Paris, Île-de-France, France; Calais, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France; London Victoria station, London, England, UK; The Crown, Near Leicester Square, London, England, UK; Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands; Lisbon, Portugal; Genoa, Liguria, Italy; Auckland, New Zealand; Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand; Assembly Hall, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Macquarie Radio Theatre, Sydney, Australia; New York, New York, USA; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Alex's Borscht Bowl, Greenwich Village, New York, New York, USA; Ruth's Poodle Parlour; Little Venice, London, England, UK; Apollo Theatre, Harlem, New York, New York, USA; Gotham Book Mart, New York, New York, USA; St Regis Hotel, New York, New York, USA; Waldorf Towers, New York, New York, USA (now the Waldorf Astoria New York); Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland, UK; Highgate, London, England, UK; Muswell Hill, London, England, UK; Charing Cross Hospital, London, England, UK; Greek Street, Soho, London, England, UK; The Mermaid Theatre, London, England, UK; The Comedy Theatre, Panton Street, London, England, UK; The Colony Room Club, Soho, London, England, UK; Scotch College, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia; Dean Street, Soho, London, England, UK; Highgate Wood, London, England, UK; The Kismet, Cranbourne Street, London, England, UK; Adelphi Theatre, The Strand, London, England, UK; Yates's Wine Lodge, Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK (headquarters); Maiden Lane, London, England, UK; Halliwick Hospital, Barnet, London, England, UK (Friern Hospital); Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, London, England, UK; Regent's Canal, London, England, UK; Tahiti; Bangkok, Thailand; Beirut, Lebanon; Prague, Czech Republic; Vienna, Austria; Bertorelli's, Fitzrovia, London, England, UK; Chez Moi, Holland Park, London, England, UK; Harley Street, London, England, UK; Tivoli Theatre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Elm Hill, Norwich, England, UK; The Fortune Theatre, London, England, UK; Auckland, New Zealand; The BBC Club, London, England, UK; The Red Lion, London, England, UK; Tottenham Court Road, London, England, UK; California, USA; Portugal; Tasmania, Australia; Wilson Hall, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Important events
- Birth of Tessa Humphries (1963-05-14)
- Related movies
- The Wizard of Oz; Snow White; Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories; Dr Mack; Fred and Maggie Everybody; When a Girl Marries (show all 17); Daybreak Dan; Chums at Chatterbox Corner; The Search for the Golden Boomerang; Candid Camera; One Summer of Happiness; The Late Show; The Barry Humphries Scandals; The Adventures of Barry McKenzie; An Evening's Intercourse with Barry Humphries; Barry McKenzie Holds His Own; Driving Miss Daisy
- Dedication
- Dedicated with much love
to my sister, Barbara,
and my brothers, Christopher and Michael
who would probably tell you
a very different story - First words
- I always wanted more.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)His fans rallied, he made some conversions, while the rest of the critics registered shades of disapproval ranging from terse bemusement to open hostility.
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- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 792.7028092 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Theater: Plays, Ballet, Opera Variety shows and theatrical dancing; burlesque, cabaret, vaudeville, music hall, nightclubs modified standard subdivisions Techniques, procedures, apparatus, equipment, materials, miscellany Acting and performance standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography Biography
- LCC
- PR9619.3 .H785 .Z47 — Language and Literature English English Literature English literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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- Languages
- English
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