A longish, dense biography of Bert Lahr, collected through interviews and personal reminiscences by John Lahr, Bert Lahr’s son. The biography doesn’t seem that long, but it’s 350 pages, and it’s pretty packed in a dense way with details of Bert Lahr’s childhood and long career in burlesque, vaudeville, Broadway, and cinema. The information sometimes is a little dry, and occasionally impersonal at times. The full knowledge that John Lahr is Bert Lahr’s son comes up very rarely in the first 2/3s of the book […]