Research Catalog

Title

Theo : the autobiography of Theodore Bikel.

Author

Bikel, Theodore

Publication

New York : HarperCollins, c1994.

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Details

Description

viii, 440 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

• Theodore Bikel is an actor: as Mitch opposite Vivien Leigh's Blanche DuBois in the original London production of A Streetcar Named Desire; opposite Bogie and Katharine Hepburn in The African Queen; as Baron Von Trapp opposite Mary Martin's Maria in the Broadway landmark The Sound of Music; and, of course, as Tevye, the sagacious milkman from the tales of Sholom Aleichem, immortalized in Fiddler on the Roof.
• Theodore Bikel is an activist: from his early involvement with the struggle for civil rights to his support and active campaigning for then-Senator John F. Kennedy, through his work for progressive causes the world over, from Tel Aviv to Tbilisi. And with that voice, the voice that has won him applause as a singer, and, as an actor, an Emmy, an Oscar nomination, and countless other citations for his talent and his commitment.
• Now, Theodore Bikel, Theo, as he calls himself, turns his voice to the telling of a truly compelling story: his own. Born in Austria, raised in Palestine, educated in England, and with a stellar career in the United States and around the world, Theo's autobiography is the story not only of his own life, but of our collective history of the past six decades, from the Third Reich to the birth of the state of Israel, the McCarthyite fifties and the struggles of the tumultuous sixties in America.
• All rendered in his uniquely eloquent, fiercely committed voice. It will surprise, delight, and shock you. A tale from a man you thought you knew: actor, activist, singer, writer. Theo is all of these, and so much more.

Subject

• Bikel, Theodore
• Actors > United States > Biography
• Singers > United States > Biography
• Jewish actors > United States > Biography
• Jewish singers > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Flashback -- Hebrew Theatre -- ... Trippingly on the Tongue -- The Kindness of Strangers -- The Guitars of the Exile -- East End, West End, and the Palace -- How Much Does He Want? -- America--Love at First Sight -- Folk Lure -- Peregrinations -- The Hills Are Alive -- Union Dues -- Come, Let Us Reason Together -- I Sing and I'll Keep Singing -- Versatility -- Tevye -- From Jerusalem to Jerusalem -- Entebbe, Vanessa, and Other Thoughts -- Zorba -- Toward the Millennium.

ISBN

0060190442

LCCN

^^^94009280^

OCLC

• 30068536
• SCSB-11674222

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library