This comprehensive biography of the actress film critic Rex Reed
called "a national treasure" draws on Robert A. Schanke's
interviews and correspondence not only with Eva Le Gallienne but
also with more than one hundred of her colleagues and friends,
including Glenda Jackson, Burgess Meredith, Eli Wallach, Peter
Falk, Ellen Burstyn, Anne Jackson, Farley Granger, Jane Alexander,
Uta Hagen, and Rosemary Harris. Forty-two illustrations offer
highlights of Le Gallienne's many notable performances in such
plays as "Hedda Gabler," " Liliom," " The Cherry Orchard," " Peter
Pan," " Camille," " Mary Stuart," " The Royal Family," ""and "The
Dream Watcher."
Behind her public role as a famous actress and as the founding
and maintaining force of the first civic repertory theatre in the
United States, Eva Le Gallienne led a private life complicated by
her identity as a lesbian. Schanke considers Le Gallienne's
sexuality and how it played a role in the struggles, defeats, and
triumphs that combined to inspire her greatness. "Shattered
Applause," a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian
Nonfiction, tells a fascinating story that also serves as a
barometer of the changing values, tastes, and attitudes of American
society.
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