Vanessa: The Life of Vanessa Redgrave

by Dan Callahan

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Who isn’t in awe of Vanessa Redgrave? Her career on stage and screen remains vital and her extreme-left political stands are still quite controversial. This is the moment, and this is the biography, to take stock of Vanessa Redgrave both as actress and as political activist with a critical, objective study of her life and career. It is also time to account for her unparalleled achievements as an empathetic actress of considerable genius. In his Biographical Dictionary of Film, David Thomson writes about Redgrave, “She has made mistakes, but there is a case for her as the best actress alive, ready for further challenge.” Anyone who has seen Redgrave in her numerous stage and film roles will know why Thomson rates her as the very best we have. The radiant, fearless, daring, perverse and always unpredictable Redgrave is the brightest light in the forest of her famous family.
  • ISBN10 1605985570
  • ISBN13 9781605985572
  • Publish Date 20 June 2014 (first published 15 May 2014)
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Out of Print 17 February 2022
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Pegasus Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 416
  • Language English