John Gielgud – Ronald Hayman

Condition : Good.
First Edition, Heinemann, 1971, Hardback with removable protective plastic wrap – Biographical – 276pp.

Gielgud was not born with a silver voice, neither did he leap to fame overnight. His first part -with one line-he did so badly that he was given silent walk-ons for the rest of the season. But years later, after he had worked in Rep and had acted in many West End theatres, he returned to the Vic, at a very modest salary, to learn how to play Shakespeare.