7 William Gaskill, A Sense of Direction (London: Faber, 1988), pp. 45–6; L.O. to Stanley Hall, 29/4/51, Dover Wilson to L.O., 22/5/51, Add Mss 80049.
8 Christopher Plummer, In Spite of Myself (London: JR Books, 2010), p. 518; Milton to L.O., 31/7/51, Add Mss 80050; L.O. to Peter Fetterman, 11/1/74, Add Mss 80505.
9 L.O. to Freddie Pyne, 7/2/69, Add Mss 80398; Antony Sher, Beside Myself: An Autobiography (London: Hutchinson, 2001), pp. 99–100; Michael Billington, The Modern Actor (London: Hamilton, 1973), p. 210.
10 L.O. to Lewis Beck, 27/6/44, Add Mss 79785.
11 Gielgud to Mrs Gielgud, 8/2/46, Add Mss 81308; Garry O’Connor, The Secret Woman: A Life of Peggy Ashcroft (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997), p. 90; Croall, Gielgud, p. 313; Gielgud, B.B.C. Radio 4 interview, broadcast 3/6/00; Gielgud’s Letters, ed. Richard Mangan (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004), p. 95.
12 Sheridan Morley, John G: The Authorised Biography of John Gielgud (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001), p. 300; Brandreth, Gielgud, p. 10; Interview with Laurence Harbottle.
13 L.O. to Asherson, 19/4/44, Add Mss 79975.
14 L.O. to Jeans, 23/5/44, Add Mss 79975.
15 Michael Billington, State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 (London: Faber, 2007), p. 32.
16 L.O. to Wanbon, undated, Add Mss 79976.
17 O’Connor, Richardson, p. 114; M.A. tapes 7.
18 M.A. tapes 7 and 26.
19 Confessions, p. 146.
20 Coward, Diaries, p. 24; Ronald Harwood, Sir Donald Wolfit, C.B.E.: His Life and Work in the Unfashionable Theatre (London: Secker and Warburg, 1971), p. 237.
21 M.A. tapes 12; L.O. diary, 1/3/44, Add Mss 79795; Mills, Up In the Clouds, p. 193; D.G. tapes, interview with John Mills.
22 Mills, Up In the Clouds, p. 193; J. C. Trewin, The Theatre since 1900 (London: Andrew Dakers, 1951), p. 271; Gielgud, Letters, pp. 77–8; Coward, Diaries, p. 24; Quaritch Catalogue, Item 31; Stephens, Knight Errant, p. 179; Alec McCowen, Double Bill (London: Elm Tree Books, 1980), p. 58; On Acting, p. 82; Bragg, Olivier, p. 77.
23 Interview with Roger Braban; Kathleen Tynan, The Life of Kenneth Tynan (London: Phoenix, 1995), p. 38; On Acting, p. 82; Dominic Shellard, Harold Hobson: Witness and Judge: The Theatre Criticism (Keele: Keele University Press, 1995), p. 83; Agate, Ego 7, p. 244; L.O. to Alan Dent, 4/4/45, Add Mss 79975.
24 M.A. tapes 7; Boyle to Cooper, 2/4/45, Add Mss 79975; Edith Olivier, From Her Journals, 1924–48, ed. Penelope Middelboe (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989), p. 295.
25 Gielgud to Mrs Gielgud, undated, Add Mss 81308; Dent to L.O., March 1945, Add Mss 79975.
26 M.A. tapes 42; Interview with Roger Braban.
27 Huggett, Beaumont, p. 409; Barker, Oliviers, pp. 227–8.
CHAPTER NINE
1 L.O. to J.E., October 1944, Add Mss 88951/1/1.
2 M.A. tapes 16; Sunday Times, 21/10/45; Bryan Forbes, That Despicable Race: A History of the British Acting Tradition (London: Elm Tree, 1980), p. 61.
3 M.A. tapes 16; Confessions, p. 155; Henry Root’s World of Knowledge (1982), cit. Lewis, Olivier, p. 8; Kenneth Tynan, He That Plays the King, p. 46.
4 Tynan, He That Plays the King, p. 47; Coward, Diaries, p. 42; Dent, Glamour (January 1947); Confessions, p. 156.
5 On Acting, p. 93; Adrian in Olivier, ed. Gourlay, p. 34; Gielgud to Mrs Gielgud, Letters, p. 95; Harwood, Wolfit, p. 237.
6 Leighton in Olivier, ed. Gourlay, p. 112; Langner to L.O., 30/1/47, Add Mss 79977.
7 L.O. to Spencer, 30/8/46, Add Mss 79976.
8 Barker, Oliviers, p. 240; Confessions, p. 175.
9 On Acting, pp. 144–5; Coleman, Olivier, pp. 181–2; Interview with D.G.; Munn, Olivier, p. 140.
10 Bartley to L.O., 16/12/48, Add Mss 79770; L.O. to Rattigan, 5/4/46, Add Mss 79777.
11 The Film Hamlet: A Record of its Production, ed. Brenda Cross (London: Saturn Press, 1948), p. 50.
12 Interview with Ronald Harwood; Hayman, Playback, p. 164; Barker, Oliviers, p. 262.
13 M.A. tapes 6 and 14.
14 Confessions, p. 161.
15 Film Hamlet, p. 50; Kiernan, Olivier, p. 231; Laurie, Film Comment (April 1982).
16 Interview with Knight, H.V. papers; D.G. tapes, interview with Morgan; Confessions, pp. 163–4.
17 Film Hamlet, p. 30; M.A. tapes 41; L.O. to Kenneth Warner, 27/6/47, Add Mss 79935.
18 Film Hamlet, p. 15; Guthrie, In Various Directions, pp. 76–8; Tynan, He That Plays the King, pp. 134–5.
19 Jerry Vermilye, The Complete Films of Laurence Olivier (New York: Carol Publishing, 1992), p. 415; L.O. to Rank, 9/5/47, Add Mss 80479; Mathieson to L.O., undated, Add Mss 79776.
CHAPTER TEN
1 M.A. tapes 26.
2 L.O. to Richardson, 26/10/46, Add Mss 79786; L.O. to Alan Moore, 25/2/50, Add Mss 79908; L.O. to Jane Smith, 7/11/51, James Jackson to L.O., undated, Add Mss 79932.
3 M.A. tapes 20; L.O. to Coward, in Coward, Letters, p. 531; Gielgud, Letters, p. 105.
4 Beyer to Stephen Thomas, 23/2/48, Add Mss 79978.
5 D.G. tapes, interview with Alec McCowen; Cushing, Olivier, ed. Gourlay, p. 124; Garry O’Connor, Darlings of the Gods: One Year in the Lives of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1984), p. 82; Cushing to L.O., 20/3/48, Add Mss 79768; V.L. to Mu Richardson, 15/5/48, Add Mss 82044.
6 M.A. tapes 20; Barker, Oliviers, p. 278.
7 M.A. tapes 20; O’Connor, Darlings of the Gods, p. 94.
8 L.O. to Burrell, 20/3/48, cit. O’Connor, Richardson, p. 147; Cushing, Olivier, ed. Gourlay, p. 124; D.G. tapes, interview with Georgina Dumel.
9 L.O.’s Notebook, 5/4/48, Add Mss 79980.
10 Beyer report of 16/4/48, Add Mss 79975; V.L. to Mu Richardson, 15/4/48, Add Mss 82044; Redington to H. J. Keates, 5/10/48, Redington papers; Barker, Oliviers, p. 282; Freyberg to L.O., 15/10/48, Add Mss 79978.
11 L.O. to Tennant, 14/7/48, Add Mss 79981; Tennant to L.O., 13/7/48, Add Mss 79978.
12 L.O. to S.O., quoted in L.O. to Tennant, 5/8/48, Add Mss 80594.
13 Confessions, p. 168; L.O. to Tennant, 19/6/48, Add Mss 79977.
14 Confessions, p. 165.
15 George Chamberlain to Tennant, 24/7/47, Add Mss 79977; L.O. to Tennant, 14/7/48, Add Mss 79981.
16 Harold Hobson, Theatre in Britain: A Personal View (Oxford: Phaidon, 1984), pp. 138–9.
17 Guthrie, A Life in the Theatre, p. 203; John Elsom and Nicholas Tomalin, The History of the National Theatre (London: Cape, 1978), pp. 96–7; M.A. tapes 26.
18 O’Connor, Richardson, pp. 134–5.
19 Hamilton to L.O., 16/12/48, Chamberlain to L.O., 19/7/48, Richardson to L.O., 22/9/48, Add Mss 79777.
20 Confessions, p. 168; Elaine Dundy, Finch, Bloody Finch: A Biography of Peter Finch (London: Joseph, 1980), pp. 127–9; L.O. to Tennant, 31/8/48, D.G. papers.
21 H.V., Leigh, pp. 179–80; O’Connor, Darlings of the Gods, p. 3.
22 O’Connor, Darlings of the Gods, p. 122; L.O. to Stephen Watts, 13/2/46, Add Mss 80619.
23 H.V. papers, interview with Emma Brash; Confessions, p. 170.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
1 M.A. tapes 26.
2 M.A. tapes 26; Hunt to L.O., 23/12/48, 2/5/50, 22/12/50, Add Mss 79977.
3 L.O. to Beaton, 15/10/48, H.V. papers; Cecil Beaton, The Strenuous Years: Diaries 1948–55 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973), pp. 19–20.
4 Esher to L.O., June 1949, Add Mss 79977.
5 L.O. to Thorndike, 23/10/52, Add Mss 79779.
6 Selznick, Private View, p. 321.
7 L.O. to L. F. Pickin, 18/10/49, Add Mss 80034; Selznick, Private View, p. 324; L.O. to Kanin, 6/10/49, Add Mss 79773; M.A. tapes 35.
8 M.A. tapes 57.
9 L.O. to J. B. Priestley, 9 and 21/11/49, Add Mss 79777.
10 Add Mss 79766; Stefan Kanfer, Somebody. The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008), p. 99; Confessions, p. 92; Simon Callow, My Life in Pieces: An Alternative Autobiography (London: Nick Hern Book
s, 2010), p. 198.
11 Gielgud, Letters, p. 483; Interview with T.O.; Rattigan to L.O., undated, Add Ms 79777; Beaton, Diary, H.V. papers; Adrian Woodhouse, Angus McBean: Facemaker (London: Alma, 2006), p. 148; The Kenneth Williams Diaries, ed. Russell Davies (London: HarperCollins, 1993), p. 238.
12 D.G. tapes, interview with Rosemary Harris; Bloom to L.O., undated, Add Mss 79766; Graham Lord, Niv: The Authorised Biography of David Niven (London: Orion, 2003), p. 308.
13 L.O. to T.O., 20/7/51, Add Mss 88951/1/2; J.E. to L.O., 1/1/52, Add Mss 79897; L.O. to T.O., 4/12/53, Add Mss 88951/1/2.
14 L.O. to J.E., 8/4/49, Add Mss 79879; The records of the various L.O.P. meetings are at Add Mss 79987; Banks to L.O., 3/4/50, Add Mss 79766.
15 Guthrie, A Life in the Theatre, p. 120.
16 Hobson, Sunday Times, 27/3/49.
17 Barker, Oliviers, p. 293; D.G. tapes, interview with Christopher Fry; L.O. to Kanin, 27/1/50, Add Mss 79773; Elliott to L.O., 7/8/50, Add Mss 79770.
18 Rex Harrison, Rex: An Autobiography (London: Macmillan, 1974), p. 127; Patrick Garland, The Incomparable Rex: A Memoir of Rex Harrison in the 1980s (London, Macmillan, 1998), pp. 30–1; L.O. to Harrison, 23/5/63, Add Mss 80396.
19 Coward, Diaries, p. 146; Mills, Up In the Clouds, pp. 211–12; Confessions, p. 179; M.A. tapes 56; L.O. to Banks, 3/4/50, Add Mss 39766.
20 The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980), p. 282; Waugh to Bushell, 16/8/48, Add Mss 79767.
21 L.O. to Nancy Halliwell-Hobbes, 2/1/51, Add Mss 79773.
CHAPTER TWELVE
1 H.V. papers, interviews with Anne Norwich and Athene Seyler.
2 M.A. tapes 13.
3 House Agent’s report, Add Mss 79849; M.A. tapes 13; Kenneth Clark, The Other Half: A Self Portrait (London: John Murray, 1977), p. 60.
4 H.V., Leigh, p. 173; Godfrey Winn, The Positive Hour (London: Joseph, 1970), p. 388.
5 T.O., My Father, p. 141; D.G. tapes, interview with John Mills.
6 Lewis, Olivier, p. 182; Spoto, Olivier, p. 180; Confessions, p. 172; Richard Olivier, Shadow of the Stone Heart: A Search for Manhood (London: Pan, 1995), p. 87.
7 Confessions, p. 173; M.A. tapes 21 and 34.
8 M.A. tapes 56; Dundy, Finch, p. 182; Kiernan, Olivier, p. 249.
9 Confessions, p. 201; M.A. tapes 56.
10 M.A. tapes 56.
11 Gielgud to Mrs Gielgud, 20/12/50, Add Mss 81310; Gielgud, Letters, p. 140.
12 Confessions, p. 181; M.A. tapes 21; John Mason Brown, As They Appear (London: Hamilton, 1953), p. 91; Olivier to Wilson, 28/2/51, Add Mss 80049.
13 Byam Shaw to L.O., 9/3/51, Add Mss 79778.
14 H.V., Leigh, p. 202.
15 M.A. tapes 42; L.O. to Miss Huflet, 24/7/70, Add Mss 80050.
16 Tynan, Evening Standard, 11/7/51; Harold Nicolson, Diaries and Letters 1945–1962, ed. Nigel Nicolson (London: Collins, 1968), p. 208.
17 Tennessee Williams, Five O’Clock Angel: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just, 1948–1982 (London: Deutsch, 1991), p. 51; M.A. tapes 21; L.O. to Dent, 4/1/52, Add Mss 79770; L.O. to J.E., 6/3/52, Add Mss 88951/1/1.
18 Confessions, pp. 186–9; M.A. tapes 20.
19 Interview with J.P.; L.O. to del Giudice, 18/2/52, Add Mss 79769; L.O. to Lord Mayor, undated, Add Mss 79866.
20 Correspondence on Add Mss 79914 and 79830.
21 O’Brian to Churchill, 18/6/51, CHUR 2/531; L.O. to Aylmer, 16/3/50, Add Mss 79910.
22 Thompson to L.O., 25/2/49 and L.O. to Thompson, undated, Add Mss 80367; Tennant to editor Evening News, 2/6/51, Add Mss 80367.
23 L.O. to editor This Month, 15/11/45, L.O. to Metcalfe, 16/10/46, Add Mss 79895; Dent to Tennant, 29/7/48, Add Mss 79981.
24 L.O. to Barker, 18/7/53, Add Mss 80367; M.A. tapes 16; Memo from David O. Selznick, p. 144.
25 Herman, Wyler, pp. 328–9.
26 J. C. Trewin, Peter Brook: A Biography (London: Macdonald and Co., 1971), p. 69; Confessions, pp. 194–5; Peter Brook, Threads of Time: A Memoir (London: Methuen Drama, 1998), pp. 99–100.
27 Brook, Threads of Time, pp. 99–100; Confessions, p. 195.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
1 R.O., Stone Heart, p. 4; Meyer, Not Prince Hamlet, pp. 260–1; Tynan, Tynan, p. 222.
2 Lewenstein to J.P., 12/7/89, Add Mss 79875; Bragg, Olivier, p. 10.
3 Billie Whitelaw, Billie Whitelaw – Who He?: An Autobiography (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995), p. 89; M.A. tapes 1.
4 22/2/52, Add Mss 79896.
5 L.O.P. Board Meeting of 29/1/53, Add Mss 79987; Confessions, p. 207; Gourlay, Olivier, p. 132.
6 Michael Darlow, Terence Rattigan: The Man and His Work (London: Quartet Books, 2010), pp. 304–5; Gourlay, Olivier, p. 133; Tynan, Daily Sketch, 6/11/53.
7 Fairweather, Cry God For Larry, p. 22.
8 V.L. to Mu Richardson, undated, Add Mss 82044.
9 Baddeley, Daily Sketch, 11/12/53; Kiernan, Olivier, p. 252; M.A. tapes 19.
10 M.A. tapes 9; Croall, Gielgud, p. 389.
11 Nicolson, Diaries and Letters, p. 292; Williams, Diaries, p. 118; M.A. tapes 19.
12 John Gielgud, An Actor and His Time (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1979), p. 176.
13 Interview with Trader Faulkner; Croall, Gielgud, p. 391; Gielgud, An Actor and His Time, p. 184; Spoto, Olivier, p. 220; Gielgud, Letters, p. 180.
14 Coward, Diaries, p. 266; Gielgud to L.O., 12/4/55, Add Mss 80299; Gielgud, Letters, p. 180; M.A. tapes 21.
15 Byam Shaw to L.O., 24/6/58, Add Mss 80299; M.A. tapes 21; Winn, Positive Hour, p. 383; D.G. tapes, interview with Fry; Kennneth Tynan, Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings (New York: Atheneum, 1961), p. 98; Gielgud, Letters, p. 180.
16 M.A. tapes 21; Hobson, Sunday Times, 12/6/55; M.A. tapes 13; Interview with Patrick Garland.
17 M.A. tapes 16.
18 Eliot, cit. J. C. Trewin, The Night Has Been Unruly (London: Robert Hale, 1957), p. 260; L.O. to Rathbone, 14/3/49, Add Mss 79777; L.O. to Blakely, 29/2/72, Add Mss 80394; Brook, Threads of Time, pp. 102–3; Confessions, p. 215; Brook to L.O., Aug 1955, Add Mss 79766.
19 Tynan, Observer, 21/8/55; Gielgud, Letters, p. 188; M.A. tapes 21.
20 Gielgud, Letters, p. 188; Coward, Diaries, pp. 279–80.
21 L.O. to Mu Richardson, 14/9/55, Add Mss 82045; H.V., Leigh, p. 230; Faulkner, Finch, pp. 159 and 162; Dundy, Finch, pp. 202–3; Walton, Walton, p. 202.
22 Coward, Diaries, p. 308; Coward, Letters, pp. 614–18.
23 Daily Sketch, 13/7/56; T.O., My Father, p. 183.
24 L.O. to T.O., 13/7/56, T.O. papers.
25 L.O. to Walton, 5/12/57, Add Mss 79777.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
1 M.A. tapes 42; Note by Furse, P.H. papers; Munn, Niven, p. 155.
2 Screenplay, Quaritch Catalogue, Item 161; Davis to Cecil Tennant, 6/11/57, P.H. papers.
3 Correspondence on Add Mss 80508; The Selected Letters of William Walton, ed. Malcolm Hayes (London: Faber, 2002), p. 309; Note by Furse, P.H. papers.
4 L.O. to Walton, 29/7/58, Add Mss 79779; T.O., My Father, pp. 221–2; Furse to L.O., 14/7/58, Add Mss 79771.
5 L.O. to Saint-Denis, 17/3/55, Add Mss 79778; Eliot to L.O., 23 and 24/11/56, Add Mss 79770; L.O. to Mankiewicz, 8/1/56, Mankiewicz to L.O., 13/1/56, Cecil Tennant to Lew Wasserman, 25/4/56, P.H. papers.
6 L.O. to Kubrick, 23/11/59, P.H. papers; Miles, Serves Me Right, p. 30.
7 Meyer, Not Prince Hamlet, p. 161.
8 Nicolson, Diaries and Letters 1945–62, p. 269.
9 L.O. to T.O., 29/4/56 and 1/11/53, T.O. papers.
10 Confessions, pp. 218–19.
11 Geoffrey Wansell, Terence Rattigan (London: Fourth Estate, 1995), p. 288.
12 Colin Clark, The Prince, the Showgirl and Me: The Colin Clark Diaries (London: HarperCollins, 1995), p. 40; Coward, Letters, p. 619.
13 Kanin to L.O., 12/7/56, Add Mss 79773; Clark, The Prince, the Showgirl, p. 162.
14 H.V., Leigh, p. 240.
15 Croal
l, Sybil Thorndike, p. 415; Clark, The Prince, the Showgirl, p. 158; Arthur Miller, Timebends: A Life (London: Methuen, 1988), pp. 418–20.
16 M.A. tapes 22.
17 Coward, Letters, p. 619; Michael Blakemore, Arguments With England: A Memoir (London: Faber, 2004), pp. 155, 156–7, 159.
18 M.A. tapes 16; Interview with Lord Norwich.
19 Blakemore, Arguments With England, pp. 162–3; M.A. tapes 21; L.O., Diary, 3/6/57, Add Mss 79797.
20 M.A. tapes 36; Barrault to L.O., 25/3/54, Add Mss 79766.
21 At the Royal Court: 25 Years of the English Stage Company, ed. Richard Findlater (Ambergate: Amber Lane, 1981), p. 40.
22 See, in particular, Billington, State of the Nation, pp. 93–4; Gaskill, Sense of Direction, p. 13; Hobson, Theatre in Britain, p. 183.
23 Miller, Timebends, pp. 416–17; Confessions, pp. 232–3; John Osborne, Almost a Gentleman: An Autobiography: Volume II (London: Faber, 1991), p. 28.
24 Gourlay, Olivier, pp. 146–9; Gaskill, Sense of Direction, p. 82.
25 L.O. to John Cummock, 13/11/57, Add Mss 80087; M.A. tapes 36 and 58; D.G. tapes, interview with Jocelyn Herbert.
26 Gaskill to L.O., 14/3/66, Add Mss 79908; Osborne, Almost a Gentleman, p. 35; Hobson, Sunday Times, 14/4/57; Joan Plowright, And That’s Not All (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001), p. 50; Osborne to L.O., 10/4/57, Add Mss 79776.
27 M.A. tapes 7; Osborne, Almost a Gentleman, p. 81.
28 Parton to L.O., 24/10/57, Add Mss 80087.
29 Osborne, Almost a Gentleman, p. 41; TV Times, Vol. 137, No. 52.
30 Coward, Diaries, p. 431.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
1 Elsom and Tomalin, National Theatre, p. 112; M.A. tapes 16.
2 Rae to L.O., 2/6/58, Add Mss 80367.
3 Wolfit to L.O., 31/3/57, Add Mss 79780; Harwood, Wolfit, p. 237; L.O. to Tynan, 5/4/47, Add Mss 79779; Wolfit to L.O., 24/7/57, Add Mss 79780; Tynan papers, Add Mss 87804.
4 Confessions, p. 240; M.A. tapes 14.
5 M.A. tapes 14; L.O. to Cecil Tennant, 25/3/58, P.H. papers; L.O. to T.O., 26/1/59, Add Mss 80951/1/2.
6 Charlton Heston, The Actor’s Life: Journals, 1956–1976, ed. Hollis Alpert (New York: Dutton, 1978), pp. 81 and 84–9.
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