Condition:
Peter Ustinov - A Curb in the Sky - James Thurber
Caedmon TC 1641 (1971)
Record is VG/VG+ with light marks and slight surface noise
Cover has ringwear and two inch split (see our pic)
Side One 18 mintues .22 seconds
Side Two 22 minutes 38 seconds
Side One
A curb in the sky(8:00)
Is sex necessary? (22:05)
Side Two
The Wooing" of Mr Monroe(6:00)
Tea at Mrs Armsby`s (5:47)
Sex ex machina (16 :32)
Selections are from Thurbers early and middle period
Following military service as a private soldier during World War II, during which he had made propaganda films, starting with One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942), with actors such as David Niven, he began to branch out into writing. His first major success was with The Love of Four Colonels in 1951. He starred alongside Humphrey Bogart and Aldo Ray in We're No Angels (1955). His career as a dramatist continued alongside his acting career, his best-known play being Romanoff and Juliet (1956). His film roles include Roman emperor Nero in Quo Vadis? (1951), Captain Vere in Billy Budd (1962), Lentulus Batiatus in Spartacus (1960),
Already a celebrity before he turned 20, he was an actor, playwright, author, mimic, opera director, satirist, UNICEF ambassador, newspaper columnist and, above all, raconteur. Ustinov was to many the quintessential renaissance man.
He affected to being indolent, yet wrote 23 plays, 13 books and nine films, acted in 40 films and 20 plays, directed eight films, eight plays and 14 operas. He won two Oscars, three Emmy Awards and, despite his deep ambivalence towards Britain, accepted a knighthood in 1990. He spoke five languages fluently and a smattering of others.
Ustinov hankered to be taken seriously as a writer and commentator in Britain, as he was in Europe. But he seemed fated and eventually even resigned to playing the role of the fat, funny foreigner in his own country. To that end he was perhaps his own worst enemy - for as a storyteller, Ustinov was a very funny man indeed.
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