Cecil beaton autobiography of a facebook manager

Cecil beaton autobiography of a facebook manager: Bea Lillie's stage manager/later biographer/aide told

Books in all Categories. Categories Last Chance to buy! Be the first to rate this product. Description A bestseller on publication in , this biography draws largely on the remaining volumes of Cecil Beaton's manuscript diaries dating from to when he suffered his stroke. He began keeping a diary at Harrow, but destroyed it when he was about 20 because he was frightened that it might be found.

He began his day to day diary at Cambridge in October and filled 56 volumes with closely scrawled material including his first trip to America from , his year in Hollywood working on My Fair Lady, summing up a particular summer or weekend, an occasion such as the Duke of Windsor's wedding, and a fictional account of a day spent with his Delhi secretary Jean MacFarlane in which in fact was spent with his Cairo secretary Pamela Burns in In this biography, only the original manuscript diaries are quoted, especially when a published version also exists.

Much of this material was at times unpublishable and it remains a candid portrait of its writer, and a valuable mirror to the many worlds in which he moved. Nothing has been changed from the expressions he and his circle used, many of which are no longer considered acceptable but they are as they were written at the time, some incredibly bitchy and snobbish and cruel.