The brief, madcap life of Kay Kendall:
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Univ. Press of Kentucky
2006
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Klappentext |
| Item Description: | Filmography S. [159]-167; Bibliography S. [183]-184 |
| Physical Description: | XIII, 194 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0813122511 |
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Γορεννορα
How This Book Came to Be
by Maraday
Wahlborg
Prologue
1
One
5
If anyone suggested anything, she was game for it.
I wo
14
Of course, there was nobody in London.
Onapłep
I hpee
18
That s Kay Kendall and she s supposed to be in the chorus!
Onaptep
Γοιιρ
28
We re going to take a chance with you.
Onapfep Five
35
You have no talent. Find some nice man and get married.
Ofrapłep
Six
43
I need someone to look after me, wifey.
oeven
48
We made ourselves ill with laughter.
Contents
Chapter Eiqht
53
People think I m the gayest thing on two legs, but I get awfully
depressed at times.
Chapter Mine
59
Come on, come on, getcher autographs here!
Chapter
len
66
I have two hired killers looking for you at this very moment.
Chapter tleven
73
You stupid, long-nosed English actor!
Chapter I welve
80
It s about the worst case I know.
Cnaptep I nipteen
86
I am not thinking of matrimony either with Mr. Harrison
or anybody else.
Chapter Fourteen
95
My career is still important, but it s not that important.
Chapter lilteen
105
I won t be any good at it! She needs a strong person.
Chapter -Sixteen
110
It is Kay Kendall who shines brightest
...
a constant pleasure
and surprise.
Contents
seventeen
118
I just wanted that sense of being at home
—
my first real home.
tiqhteen
133
They were just lost, they were so deeply in love with each other.
Ohaptep nineteen
133
Diggy, I think I m dying
. . .
and they won t tell me.
Uhaptep Iwentij
141
If you think I m coming here to die, you re wrong!
I wentij-vjne
152
No one was ever born into the world with such a bright genius
for living.
iMmogpaphij
159
Motes
169
Dibliogpaphu,
183
Acknowledgments
185
Index
187
Illustrations follow page
82
At the age of
30,
British born
comedie
actress Kay Kendall had finally
reached the pinnacle of professional and
personal success: she was Britain s biggest,
most glamorous comic star since Gertrude
Lawrence, and she stood at the altar to
marry Rex Harrison, who had just taken
Broadway by storm in M^ Fair Lady. But
behind her dazzling smile and growing fame
was an air of tragedy.
Since her teens, Kendall had dashed
madly through life, working her way
through one show and movie after another
and surviving the distinction of appearing
in the biggest box-office flop in British
history. Her private life was even more
colorful than the plots of her films as she
embarked on a series of affairs with minor
royalty, costars, directors, producers, and
married men.
Kendall finally found stardom in the
1953
comedy
Geneviève.
Often compared
to Carole Lombard and Lucille Ball, she
went on to score success after success with
her light style in movies such as Doctor in
the House, The Reluctant Debutante, and the
Gene Kelly musical
Les
Girls.
In
1954
she fell in love with her married
Constant Husband
costar
Rex Harrison and
accompanied him to New York. It was there
that Kendall was diagnosed with myelocytic
leukemia. Harrison, who had divorced his
wife in order to marry Kendall, agreed with
their doctor that she was never to know of
her diagnosis. For the next two years, the
couple lived a hectic, glamorous life togeth¬
er, despite Kendall s failing health. She died
in London at the age of
32,
shortly after
completing the filming of Once More with
Feeling!
,
her husband by her side.
The Brief, Madcap Life of Kay Kendall was
written with the cooperation of Kendall s
sister Kim and includes interviews with
many of her costars, relatives, and friends.
A complete filmography and numerous rare
photographs complete this first-ever biogra¬
phy of the star with a joyous passion for life.
Eve Golden is the
author of biogra¬
phies of actresses
Jean Harlow, Theda
Bara,
and Anna
Held, as well as a
collection of essays
on silent film stars.
Kim Kendall served as
president of the Women s
Committee for the New
York Lighthouse for the
Blind and co-president
of the Palm Beach Zoo.
She has two children,
Lavinia and Kane.
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