Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A. An Intimate Biography of the Great Star By Her Husband Richard Stoddatd Aldrich

London England: The Companion Book Club, 1956. Hardback. Grey cloth with gilt lettering. Foreword by Daphne Du Maurier. This book is a surprise. it is much more than the story of a star. Noel Coward once said that the fabulous Gertrude Lawrence was seven women under one hat. This book reveals an eighth that the outside world never saw. You'd expect any book about her to be exciting....because all her dazzling life Gertrude made news very easily....the irrepressible cockney kid who rocketed to fame. But what you have here....is a Gertrude Lawrence that only one person in the whole world knew - Gertrude Lawrence in the greatest of all her roles - Gertrude as what she adoringly called hereself 'Mrs. A' - wife of Richard Stoddar Aldrich, to whom, to the astonishment of all her friends, she was married for twelve idyllic years until her death. Here is an intimate true story of a real-life romance of our time, the story of an actress so fabulous that when she died the lights in london's theatreland and on Broadway were dimmed and of her astonishing marriage a tender and lovel(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) y relationship that began almost as a case of hate at first sight. Illustrated. 320 pp. . 1st Companion Book Club Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardback.