Life On The Stage My Personal Experiences And Recollections

This work presents an incredible autobiography of an American actress Clara Morris (1846-1925). She beautifully describes her early life, her struggling days in training, and finally, her life as the leading emotional actress on the American stage.

This work presents an incredible autobiography of an American actress Clara Morris (1846-1925). She beautifully describes her early life, her struggling days in training, and finally, her life as the leading emotional actress on the American stage.

Excerpt from Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections Life on the Stage to English readers. The best intro duction I can give is to say: Read the book; it will speak for itself eloquently, for it overflows with quick natural wit, real pathos, fine womanly courage, and - it rings true. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

When John Wilkes Booth died—shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln—all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day; the fifth was Booth's wealthy fiancée. And those five women are just the tip of the iceberg. Before he shot the president of the United States and entered the annals of history as a killer, actor John Wilkes Booth had quite a way with women. There was the actress who cut his throat and almost killed him in a jealous rage. There was the prostitute who tried to kill herself because he abandoned her. There was the actress who would swear she witnessed him murdering Lincoln, even though she was thousands of miles away at the time. John Wilkes Booth was hungry for fame, touchy about politics, and a notorious womanizer. But this book isn't about John Wilkes Booth---not really. This book is about his women: women who were once notorious in their own right; women who were consumed by love, jealousy, strife, and heartbreak; women whose lives took wild turns before and after Lincoln's assassination; women whom have been condemned to the footnotes of history... until now.