Dudley Moore: An Intimate Portrait - Softcover

Rena Fruchter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091900808 ISBN 13: 9780091900809

Publisher: Ebury Press, 2005

Synopsis

When Dudley Moore died in 2002, Rena Fruchter was at his side. In the last 15 years of his life, they had become not only concert partners but the closest of friends. In this honest, often very funny memoir, she offers an intimate account of the final years of the brilliant but troubled star.

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From the Publisher

The public persona of Dudley Moore was many-sided: the short, anxious member of the comic duo Pete and Dud; the hard-drinking millionaire in the phenomenally successful Arthur; the gifted concert pianist and composer; the working-class kid who won a scholarship to Oxford. Dudley Moore was born with a club foot to an East London railwayman and his perfectionist wife. He went on to become an accomplished jazz pianist at Magdalen College, but left for a career in comedy, and later, film stardom. His life spanned an era of brilliant British comedy and an extraordinary decade of success—and excess—in Hollywood. After a debilitating illness forced him off the stage into real life, he struggled to survive; paradoxically, he also found inner peace. Looking back on the final 15 years of his life, Rena Fruchter gives us a loving and unflinching portrait of her friend Dudley Moore.

About the Author

Rena Fruchter is a classical concert pianist and one-time music journalist. She toured with Dudley Moore and also recorded several classical albums with him. In the last decade of his life she became his closest friend and confidante, and it was in Rena and her family's care that Dudley spent his last months.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091900808
• ISBN 13: 9780091900809
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 407