In his best-selling autobiography
More or Less
, published in 1978, Kenneth More, one of Britain's best-loved actors, said, 'When Angela and I met and fell in love, everyone and everything was against us. I felt about her as I had never felt about any other woman. I needed her not only physically, but mentally and morally. My only reason for living was to marry her.' He was
In his best-selling autobiography
More or Less
, published in 1978, Kenneth More, one of Britain's best-loved actors, said, 'When Angela and I met and fell in love, everyone and everything was against us. I felt about her as I had never felt about any other woman. I needed her not only physically, but mentally and morally. My only reason for living was to marry her.' He was forty-seven, an internationally famous star, twice married with two daughters, who through his appearance in such films as
Genevieve
,
Reach for the Sky
and
Doctor in the House
had become something of a British national institution.
Angela was blonde, blue-eyed and twenty-one. As this bubbly, naive and insecure young actress found herself increasingly in demand in a profession she adored, she met and fell deeply in love with the man who was to remain for the next twenty years her 'one essential existence'.
swings and roundabouts
was begun with Kenneth's encouragement and first published in 1983
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. This revised edition was published in 2012 and brings Angela's lifestory up to date.
...more
Paperback
,
344 pages
Published
2012
by fantom publishing
(first published 1983)
This is a brave brave book. Angela Douglas writes about her life and work and her helpless love for a 'very married man'. When she suggested to Kenneth More (the 'very married man', and one of Britain's best-loved actors) that she might write it, he said, 'Go for it darling! Go for it!' He also suggested the opening sentence: 'There were twenty-six years and two world wars between us.' He agreed that she should write about finding her feet as an actress, 'About us meeting and falling in love,' a
This is a brave brave book. Angela Douglas writes about her life and work and her helpless love for a 'very married man'. When she suggested to Kenneth More (the 'very married man', and one of Britain's best-loved actors) that she might write it, he said, 'Go for it darling! Go for it!' He also suggested the opening sentence: 'There were twenty-six years and two world wars between us.' He agreed that she should write about finding her feet as an actress, 'About us meeting and falling in love,' and about, 'Our life together, the good and the bad bits.' And, most poignantly, 'About the illness, and how it is for us now.' All brave subjects to write about for a woman whose life with her man was led, for much of their time together, in public.
Douglas writes with such honesty, humour and passion that I read the book in two days. Not only is she full of insight, and witty self-deprecation, about love and its joys and difficulties, she's also full of kindness about More's final illness and funny, wise and brave about the whole business of living both with another human being, and with ourselves.
It's a supremely human book.
This edition (the book was first published in 1983), brings Angela's story up to date and includes poignant descriptions of her grief when More died.