Eileen Joyce: A Portrait by Richard Davis

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has inscribed inside page. Previously a book exchange copy with a stamp.

A frank and revealing biography of one of Australia's most dazzling musical talents.

During the 1940s and 1950s, concert pianist, recording artist, radio performer, fashion leader and film star Eileen Joyce (1908–1991) enjoyed enormous critical acclaim and a popularity bordering on adulation.

In this carefully researched and written biography, Richard Davis reveals Eileen's true origins and, for the first time, her struggle to make a career against the odds.

New evidence about the highs and lows of her private life is presented frankly, drawing on information never before released by her family. Her personality is put under the microscope, her talent analysed, and her place in Australian and international music history evaluated.