GENERAL OUTLINE OF BOOK
First Chapter - The King of Trafford Road - 1903 to 1916.
Second Chapter:
Early life in Salford - 1916 to 1923. Manchester Grammar School. Oakhurst 1916?. Athens, Urmston, 1923. Left home 1923. London, Majestic 1924. Switzerland, Milan, London, Urmston 1924. Drama School London 1925.
Mother died 1926 - return to Urmston.
Third Chapter:
First acting job - Outward Bound - Rusholme - 1926. Oxford Verse Speaking Competition 1926. Old Vic 1927. Sirocco 1927.
Fourth Chapter:
Festival Theatre, Cambridge, 1928. Black Ace, Basil Dean, West End flop, 1928. Louise returned to America 1928. Broke contract Stratford American tour summer 1928. America October 1929. Modern dress version of Measure for Measure, New York, December 1929. Theatre Guild, 1930. Marriage 1930.
Miscellaneous engagements America, 1930 to 1931.
Chapter Five:
Return to London, end 1931. Christmas dinner with Father in London. Gate Theatre and Embassy Theatre 1932. Return to America summer 1932. Stockbridge 1932.
Chapter Six:
New York 1932 to 1938. Father died 1935. Son born 1937.
Chapter Seven:
Orson Welles, 1938. Broadway 1938 to October 1939. Daughter born 1939. Citizen Kane, Hollywood 1939. Send for family end 1939.
Chapter Eight:
Return to New York, October 1940. Cue for Passion December 1940. Watch on the Rhine April 1941. Tour of Watch 1942. Hollywood, film of Watch 1942. Other films 1942. Richard III 1943.
Chapter Nine:
Return to Hollywood 1943. Unemployed six months. Films 1944 to 1948. New York, City Centre 1948. Return to England 1948. Family to England 1949.
Edinburgh Festival, Ustinov play 1950. Bristol Old Vic 1950. West End theatre Rosmersholm 1950. Films and television England 1953 to retirement with Parkinson's Disease 1985. Enemy of the People 1959. Lear, Glasgow 1962. New York 1964, flop. London 1964. Miscellaneous work 1964 to 1982.
Lear St George's Theatre, 1982.