The surprise of my life : an autobiography / Claire Drainie Taylor ; with a foreword by Marlene Kadar.

By:

Taylor, Claire Drainie, 1917-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Life writing series ; v. 5.Publication details: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 268 pages, 19 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraitsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0585249172
9780585249179
0889203024
9780889203020
9780889208285
088920828X

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Surprise of my life.DDC classification:

791/.092 21

LOC classification:

PN2308 .T39 1998eb

Online resources:

Click here to access online

Action note:

digitized 2010 committed to preserve

Review: "Maybe you'd be intrigued by the progression of a life begun as an unexceptional little girl born to a middle-class, Jewish-Canadian couple in a small prairie town who, at age sixteen, married a cultured Englishman and survived the Great Depression, partly alone in a shack in the woods of Vancouver Island. Or how, only a few months after returning to Vancouver, with no training and minimal education, this same young woman walked on stage at one of Canada's finest old theatres, and went on to a successful thirty-year career as an actress and radio dialogue writer, pausing along the way to divorce her first husband and marry John Drainie, the man who was to become Canada's most beloved actor, and, incidentally, father to her six children. And you're almost certain to be moved by the loving, sensitive (and sometimes humorous) way she narrates his two-year losing battle with cancer. Claire Drainie Taylor ends her memoir with a brief glimpse of the outstanding Canadian film entrepreneur who became her third husband."--Jacket.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings ( 0 )
Title notes ( 8 )

No physical items for this record

Print version record.

Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. MiAaHDL

http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL

"Maybe you'd be intrigued by the progression of a life begun as an unexceptional little girl born to a middle-class, Jewish-Canadian couple in a small prairie town who, at age sixteen, married a cultured Englishman and survived the Great Depression, partly alone in a shack in the woods of Vancouver Island. Or how, only a few months after returning to Vancouver, with no training and minimal education, this same young woman walked on stage at one of Canada's finest old theatres, and went on to a successful thirty-year career as an actress and radio dialogue writer, pausing along the way to divorce her first husband and marry John Drainie, the man who was to become Canada's most beloved actor, and, incidentally, father to her six children. And you're almost certain to be moved by the loving, sensitive (and sometimes humorous) way she narrates his two-year losing battle with cancer. Claire Drainie Taylor ends her memoir with a brief glimpse of the outstanding Canadian film entrepreneur who became her third husband."--Jacket.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide