| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 268 pages, 19 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraits |
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Life writing series ; 5 |
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Life writing series ; v. 5.
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| Contents |
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Author's Note; The Beginning; Swift Current; And All the Other Places; Vancouver-First Marriage; Rock Bay; John Drainie Makes an Entrance; Life with John; And the Children Came ... and Came ... and Came; Interlude; The Final Stretch |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Notes |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Taylor, Claire Drainie, 1917-
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| SUBJECT |
Taylor, Claire Drainie, 1917- fast |
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Taylor, Claire Drainie. swd |
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Actresses -- Canada -- Biography
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Radio writers -- Canada -- Biography
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Actresses -- Canada -- Biography
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Radio writers -- Canada -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Actresses
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Radio writers
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585249172 |
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9780585249179 |
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0889203024 |
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9780889203020 |
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9780889208285 |
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088920828X |
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1280925086 |
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9781280925085 |
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9786610925087 |
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6610925089 |
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