The Man Who Was Private Widdle

Description

Roger Lewis’s exquisite and tragic monograph on the actor Charles Hawtrey is divided into two sections, one on his thespian career and one on his life. Both are eye-wateringly sad and sordid, although Lewis presents Hawtrey as a doomed victim of his own grandiose ideas of himself. Included at the end are, along with his surprisingly voluminous acting credits, some of the rejection letters he received more and more of as his career declines, from agents and casting companies. The volume is written with tender admiration for the lost soul who ended up sharing bottles of cheap gin with his cat in Deal on the Kent coast. This is the first hardback edition in very good condition.