Broadway Backstage With Bangkok The Bear

ALBANY, Ga. - June 27, 2015 - PRLog -- The Bear Who Lived at The Plaza is the true-life story of Bangkok, a small brown bear from Thailand, who lived at New York's Plaza Hotel, where Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, George M. Cohan, Eugene O'Neill, and other American show business greats were interviewed by Ward Morehouse, the late New York Sun drama critic, and the author’s father.

Albany, Ga. – BearManor Media announces the release of The Bear Who Lived at The Plaza by Ward Morehouse III.

In one sense, Bangkok the Bear is symbolic of a vanished Broadway and Hollywood era, when stars were put on pedestals and their antics retold with loving reverence. At six weeks old, Bangkok was about the size of a full-grown Scotty, and he fed on goat's milk. He stayed in Bangkok's famous Oriental Hotel and the elegant Hotel Fairmont in San Francisco before moving to the Plaza Hotel in New York. There, his remarkable encounters circled around the author’s gregarious, fun-loving father; his stepmother Jean Dalrymple, one of Broadway's first great women producers; and his mother, Joan Marlowe, co-publisher and editor of The Theater Information Bulletin for half a century.

About the author: Ward Morehouse III spent his childhood going to the theater and backstage with his father and mother, and he inherited his father's love of hotels. He has written twelve books on the history of hotels and theater, including Millennium Biltmore: A Grand Hotel Born of Hollywood Dreams, and two previous books on New York's Plaza Hotel. He is a former longtime staff correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor and former Broadway columnist for The New York Post. He is the author of Off-Broadway plays, The Actors and If It Was Easy. He and his actress/writer wife Katherine N. Boynton co-wrote the Waters of Summer screenplay.

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