An accomplished actor whose career spanned 5 decades on the stages of New York, London and Paris, Gordon Heath (1918-1991) achieved national prominence in 1945 for his starring role in the Broadway production of Deep Are the Roots, a searing exploration of American race relations at the close of World War II. By 1948, like other black artists before him, he had moved to France. With his longtime companion, Lee Payant, he opened the nightclub L'Abbaye in Paris and continued to perform on stage in Great Britain, Europe and ...
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An accomplished actor whose career spanned 5 decades on the stages of New York, London and Paris, Gordon Heath (1918-1991) achieved national prominence in 1945 for his starring role in the Broadway production of Deep Are the Roots, a searing exploration of American race relations at the close of World War II. By 1948, like other black artists before him, he had moved to France. With his longtime companion, Lee Payant, he opened the nightclub L'Abbaye in Paris and continued to perform on stage in Great Britain, Europe and the United States. Reviewing the New York production of Oedipus in 1970, Clive Barnes wrote in the New York Times, A man born to play the prince, Mr Heath has an instinctive nobility and moves and talks with all the natural authority of a classic hero.
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Very Good + in very good + jacket. Memoirs of a Black Expatriate. 8vo. [6], 202 pp. Bound in full gray cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Very Good+, small stain to bottom edge of text block, otherwise tight, crisp copy in Very Good+ with short tear to bottom edge of front cover, minor wear to extremities.
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Fine in very good + jacket. Memoirs of a Black Expatriate. 8vo. [6], 202 pp. Bound in full gray cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Includes index. Fine, tight, crisp copy, in Very Good+ dust jacket with minor wear to extremities.
