Everyone, she said, has not only a story but a scream. The tormented actor Rachel Robert's journals, edited with a documentary biography by Alexander Walker, reflect the self-doubt and increasing desperation of the last 18 months of her life.
The award-winning Welsh actor in British New Wave films was also Rex Harrison's fourth wife, and became obsessed with him after their divorce.
"The hope that I can write is an intoxication," she wrote. "Please God, I can, that would save my life."
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