Dance and skylark : fifty years with Alastair Sim
Sim, Naomi1987
Book
An autobiography by Naomi Sim about her childhood and her marriage to Alastair, her role as his closest adviser and mother to her child and the unofficial children of the family, including the young actor George Cole. An autobiographical account by Naomi Sim starting with her childhood spent with her sister and mother, living with her aunts in Edinburgh (and periodically in Bedford) and the summer holidays spent in the country, helping on the local farm.;She describes her first meeting with her husband Alastair, falling in love with him at the age of 12, and follows their years together during and after the war covering her role as his closest adviser: vetting scripts, working through his lines with him and sparking new ideas. She recounts her difficult pregnancy when their daughter Merlith was born and tells of the other - unofficial - children of the family, including the young actor George Cole.
Main title:
Dance and skylark : fifty years with Alastair Sim / Naomi Sim.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 1987.
Collation:
151p.,[16]p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24cm.
ISBN:
9780747500520
Dewey class:
941.0820924941.0820
LC class:
CT788.S535/
Language:
English
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BRN:
1031871