Notes on a Cowardly Lion

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781453288740

<DIV><B>John Lahr&rsquo;s stunning and complex biography of his father, the legendary actor and comedian Bert Lahr</B><BR /> &#160;<BR /><I>Notes on a Cowardly Lion</I> is John Lahr&rsquo;s masterwork: an all-encompassing biography of his father, the comedian and performer Bert Lahr. Best known as the Cowardly Lion in MGM&rsquo;s classic <I>The Wizard of Oz</I>, Lahr was a consummate artist whose career spanned burlesque, vaudeville, Broadway, and Hollywood. While he could be equally raucous and polished in public, Lahr was painfully insecure and self-absorbed in private, keeping his family at arm&rsquo;s length as he quietly battled his inner demons.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Told with an impressive objectivity and keen understanding of the construction&mdash;and destruction&mdash;of the performer, <I>Notes on a Cowardly Lion</I> is more than one man&rsquo;s quest to understand his father; it is an extraordinary examination of a life in American show business.</DIV>