Marcel Marceau
Title | Marcel Marceau PDF eBook |
Author | Gloria Spielman |
Publisher | Kar-Ben Publishing |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0761339620 |
Recounts the life and accomplishments of the master of mime.
Marcel Marceau
Title | Marcel Marceau PDF eBook |
Author | Gloria Spielman |
Publisher | Kar-Ben Publishing ™ |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2014-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1512491217 |
From the age of five, Marcel Marceau knew he wanted to be a silent actor, just like Charlie Chaplin. When World War II intervened, he joined the resistance, helping to get young Jews to safety during this dangerous time. But Marcel never forgot his dream of being a mime artist and entertaining the world.
Marcel Marceau, Master of Mime
Title | Marcel Marceau, Master of Mime PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Martin |
Publisher | Penguin Group |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Acting |
ISBN |
Monsieur Marceau
Title | Monsieur Marceau PDF eBook |
Author | Leda Schubert |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 2012-09-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1596435291 |
Profiles the life and career of the mime Marcel Marceau.
Masters of Silence
Title | Masters of Silence PDF eBook |
Author | Kathy Kacer |
Publisher | Annick Press |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2019-03-12 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1773212648 |
Silence can be powerful. Kathy Kacer’s second book in her middle grade series about heroic rescues during WWII tells the tale of siblings Helen and Henry, and history’s most famous mime. Desperate to save them from the Nazis, Henry and Helen’s mother makes the harrowing decision to take her children from their home in 1940s Germany and leave them in the care of strangers in France. The brother and sister must hide their Jewish identity to pass for orphans being fostered at a convent in the foreign land. Visits from a local mime become the children’s one source of joy, especially for Henry, whose traumatic experience has left him a selective mute. When an informer gives them up, the children are forced to flee yet again from the Nazis, but this time the local mime—a not yet famous Marcel Marceau—risks everything to try to save the children. Masters of Silence shows award-winning author Kathy Kacer at the top of her craft, bringing to light the little-known story of Marceau’s heroic work for the French Resistance. Marceau would go on to save hundreds of children from Nazi concentration camps and death during WWII. In characteristic Kacer style, Masters of Silence is dramatic and engaging, and highlights the courage of both those rescuing and the rescued themselves. Wenting Li’s chapter heading illustrations and evocative covers provide the perfect visuals for the series.
Lust for Justice
Title | Lust for Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Paulette Frankl |
Publisher | Lightning Rod Publishers |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | Lawyers |
ISBN | 9780615386836 |
A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause
Title | A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause PDF eBook |
Author | Shawn Wen |
Publisher | Sarabande Books |
Pages | 119 |
Release | 2017-07-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 194644801X |
"Threading the subtle seam between what lives and what remains, A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause succeeds in conjuring the poetry of Marcel Marceau's performance as both a character on stage and in history. . . . Like pulling a ghost from a dark room, this is an accomplished work of historical portraiture: precise in its objects, complex in its melancholy, and insightful in its humor." —Thalia Field Part biographic inquiry, part lyric portraiture, radio producer Shawn Wen reanimates world-renowned mime Marcel Marceau's silent art. The book opens in darkness, a single figure standing in the spotlight. It's Marceau in his signature hat, painted face, black clothes, and ballet slippers. Over time, the text accumulates objects: dolls, paintings, icons, wives, children, cities, and performances. By turns whimsical and melancholic, this spare volume takes shape through capsule histories, interview clips, vivid scenes, and archival research. Shawn Wen is a writer, radio producer, and multimedia artist. Her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry, The Seneca Review, The Iowa Review, The White Review, and the anthology City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis (Faber and Faber, 2015). Her radio work broadcasts regularly on This American Life, Freakonomics Radio, and Marketplace. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Ford Foundation Professional Journalism Training Fellowship and the Royce Fellowship.