7 Coward, Diaries, p. 436; D.G. tapes, interview with Peter Sallis; Peter Allen to Granger, 16/4/96, D.G. papers.
8 D.G. tapes, interview with Sallis; L.O. to Welles, 13/11/52, Add Mss 80064; M.A. tapes 42.
9 D.G. tapes, interview with Sallis; Barbara Leaming, Orson Welles: A Biography (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985), pp. 456–7, and see Simon Callow, My Life in Pieces, p. 284; Peter Hall, Making an Exhibition of Myself (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993), p. 125.
10 Coward, Letters, pp. 648–9; Lauren Bacall, Now (London: Century, 1994), p. 162; L.O. to T.O., 28/8/60, Add Mss 88951/1/2; Stewart Granger, Sparks Fly Upward (London: Granada, 1981), p. 400; Kempson to L.O., 30/3/60, Add Mss 80619; J.P., And That’s Not All, p. 65.
11 D.G. tapes, interview with Blakemore; Bacall, Now, p. 161.
12 D.G. tapes, interview with Sallis; Fairweather, Cry God for Larry, p. 35.
13 Fairweather, Cry God for Larry, pp. 27–8; L.O. to T.O., 28/8/60, Add Mss 88951/1/2; L.O. to J.E., 4/10/60, Add Mss 88951/1/1; Denison, H.V. papers.
14 L.O. to Kanin, undated, Add Mss 79773; V.L. to T.O., 19/2/60, Add Mss 88951/3; V.L. to L.O., 20/6/60, Add Mss 80618.
15 L.O. to T.O., 13/12/58, T.O. papers; Interview with T.O.
16 L.O. to T.O., undated, T.O. papers; Coward, Diaries, p. 494.
17 T.O., My Father, p. 239.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
1 L.O. to H. T. Patterson, 18/2/52, Add Mss 79935.
2 Leslie Evershed-Martin, The Impossible Theatre: The Chichester Festival Theatre Adventure (Chichester: Phillimore, 1971), pp. 176, viii and 77–8.
3 Evershed-Martin, Impossible Theatre, p. 79; Interview with J.P.
4 Croall, Thorndike, p. 451; Interview with J.P.; M.A. tapes 43.
5 L.O. to J.P., undated, Add Mss 80306.
6 D.G. tapes, interview with Rosemary Harris.
7 Claire Bloom, Leaving a Doll’s House: A Memoir (London: Virago, 1996), p. 125; L.O. to Redgrave, undated, Redgrave papers, THM/31/3/5; Bloom to L.O., 4/6/63, L.O. to Bloom, 11/6/63, Add Mss 80400.
8 Berkoff to L.O., undated, L.O. to Berkoff, 3/4/62, Berkoff to L.O., 30/4/76, Add Mss 80394.
9 L.O. to Pinter, 2/8/62, Add Mss 80303; L.O. to Hobson, undated, Add Mss 80367.
10 Evershed-Martin, Impossible Theatre, p. xiv; L.O. to Lucette Andrieu, 4/6/68, Add Mss 79899.
11 Chichester to L.O., 3/7/62, Add Mss 80303; M.A. tapes 27; Observer, 15/7/62.
12 M.A. tapes 27; Evershed-Martin, Impossible Theatre, p. xvi; Croall, Thorndike, p. 455.
13 Sunday and Financial Times, cit. J.P., And That’s Not All, p. 107; M.A. tapes 16.
14 M.A. tapes 16.
15 M.A. tapes 26; Elsom and Tomalin, National Theatre, pp. 109–10.
16 M.A. tapes 26; L.O. to T.O., 4/10/60, Add Mss 88951/1/2; Clark to L.O., 6/12/60, Add Mss 80366; M.A. tapes 28.
17 Timothy Bateson in Olivier, ed. Gourlay, p. 122; L.O. to David Lewin and Lewin to L.O., undated, Add Mss 80303.
18 Evershed-Martin to L.O., 1/2/63, L.O. to Evershed-Martin, 28/5/63, Add Mss 80303.
19 Hall to L.O., 26/9/59, Add Mss 80299; L.O. to Ossia Trilling, 17/2/61, Add Mss 79897; Interview with Peter Hall.
20 Stephen Fay, Power Play: The Life and Times of Peter Hall (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995), pp. 141–4; Hall to L.O., 30/1/62, L.O. to Hall, undated, Add Mss 80367.
21 Hall, Olivier at Work, p. 15.
22 Daily Mail, 7/12/62; Add Mss 79830; Sunday Times, 12/3/62; Coward, Letters, p. 597.
23 Miles, Serves Me Right, pp. 5–6 and 8.
24 Interview with D.G.; M.A. tapes 28 and 53; Interview with Sarah Miles.
25 Daily Express, 7/8/63; Coward, Diaries, p. 519.
26 L.O. diary, Add Mss 79797; Specialist Report of 15/3/63, L.O. to Dr Dix Perkins, 21/3/63, Add Mss 79867A.
27 Hope to L.O., 29/9/61, Add Mss 80504.
28 N.T.B., 10/10/62, Add Mss 80318; Fay, Power Play, pp. 141–2.
29 D.G. tapes, interview with Michael Jayston.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
1 L.O. to T.O., 19/8/62, Add Mss 88951/1/2; L.O. to Guthrie, undated, Add Mss 79772; O’Connor, Richardson, p. 105; L.O. to T.O., 7/12/63, T.O. papers.
2 L.O. to Cottesloe, 2/8/62, Add Mss 80366; D.G. tapes, interview with Rupert Rhymes.
3 M.A. tapes 7.
4 M.A. tapes 33; Interview with J.P.; D.G. tapes, interview with Jocelyn Herbert.
5 Gaskill, Olivier at Work, p. 14; N.T.B., 11/2/63, Add Mss 80318.
6 On Acting, p. 29.
7 Bateson in Olivier, ed. Gourlay, p. 121; Interview with D.G.; L.O. to Harrison, 23/5/63, Add Mss 80396; Kenneth Williams, Diaries, p. 370.
8 Billington, State of the Nation, p. 140; Michael Feeney Callan, Anthony Hopkins: In Darkness and Light (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1993), pp. 96–7; Quentin Falk, Anthony Hopkins: Too Good to Waste: A Biography (London: Columbus, 1989), p. 30; N.T.B., 13/5/63, Add Mss 80318.
9 Richardson to L.O., 26/4/61, Add Mss 79777; O’Connor, Richardson, p. 150; M.A. tapes 28; L.O. to Richardson, 26/2/67, Add Mss 82045; Interview with Ronald Harwood.
10 Richard Eyre, Talking Theatre: Interviews with Theatre People (London: Nick Hern Books, 2009), p. 6; L.O. to Gielgud, 31/6/64 and 1/10/64, Add Mss 80402.
11 L.O. to Gielgud, 1/10/66, Add Mss 80395; L.O. to Worth, 28/11/67, Add Mss 80402.
12 L.O. to Scofield, 13/5/64 and 30/3/72, Add Mss 80399; Garry O’Connor, Paul Scofield: The Biography (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 2002), p. 245; Interview with Peter Hall.
13 Gaskill, Sense of Direction, p. 57; D.G. tapes, interview with Gaskill.
14 Elsom and Tomalin, National Theatre, p. 197; Stephens, Knight Errant, p. 73.
15 Jonathan Miller, Subsequent Performances (London: Faber, 1986), p. 91.
16 L.O. to Tynan, 21/8/62, Add Mss 79779.
17 L.O. to Tynan, 31/1/63, Add Mss 87879; Kenneth Tynan, Letters, ed. Kathleen Tynan (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994), p. 293.
18 Osborne in Olivier, ed. Gourlay, p. 152.
19 D.G. tapes, interview with Edward Hardwicke; L.O. to Miss Jepson, 12/6/52, Add Mss 79767; L.O. to Tynan, 12/12/70, Add Mss 89884; Interview with R.O.
20 D.G. tapes, interview with Gaskill.
21 M.A. tapes 41.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
1 S.O. to L.O., 29/7/63, Add Mss 79891; M.A. tapes 27; Evershed-Martin to L.O., 28/5/63, Add Mss 80303; Battersby to D. Biart, 9/10/63, Add Mss 80303.
2 Evershed-Martin to L.O., 13/12/63, L.O. to Evershed-Martin, 15/1/65, Add Mss 79891.
3 Stephens, Knight Errant, pp. 85–6.
4 M.A. tapes 53; L.O. to Rogers, 1/1/65, D.G. papers.
5 L.O. to Topol, 14/5/69, Add Mss 79781; M.A. tapes 44; L.O. to Regina Berger, 24/3/52, Add Mss 80050.
6 Anna Massey, Telling Some Tales (London: Hutchinson, 2006), p. 94; M.A. tapes 12.
7 Fairweather, Cry God for Larry, p. 90.
8 Miller to J.P., undated, Add Mss 79875; Interview with Ronald Pickup; M.A. tapes 53.
9 D.G. tapes, interview with Edward Hardwicke; Tynan papers, Add Mss 87806.
10 Jolley to J.P., 11/7/89, Add Mss 79875; Callow, My Life In Pieces, p. 46, and Callow, Being an Actor (London: Methuen, 1984), p. 108.
11 Stephens, Knight Errant, p. 61.
12 M.A. tapes 53; Whitelaw, Who He?, pp. 90 and 99.
13 National Theatre Liaison Committee, 5/6/73, Add Mss 80358.
14 Pickup to J.P., 15/7/89, Add Ms 79875; Eyre, Utopia, p. 120.
CHAPTER NINETEEN
1 L.O. to Guthrie, 16/7/63, Add Mss 79772.
2 M.A. tapes 56 and 27; Interview with Gaskill.
3 M.A. tapes 27; Coward, Diaries, p. 548; O’Toole to L.O., 12/12/67 and 15/4/71, Add Mss 79776.
4 L.O. to Beckett, 10/11/65, Add Mss 87879; L.O. to Pamela Berry, 30/11/67, Add Mss 79766.
5 L.O. to Tynan, 16/5/63, Add Mss 80362.
6 M.A. tapes 32 and 45.
7 On Acting, p. 106; Miller and Thorndike in Olivier, ed. Gourlay, pp. 193 and 28.
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nbsp; 8 Fairweather, Cry God for Larry, p. 104; Roy Hills, M.A. tapes 53; Interview with Tamsin Olivier.
9 T.O., My Father, p. 247; Olivier at Work, p. 76.
10 D.G. tapes, interview with John Mills; Stephens, Knight Errant, p. 71; Hayman, Playback, p. 163.
11 D.G. tapes, interview with Riggs O’Hara; M.A. tapes 32; Forbes, That Despicable Race, p. 299.
12 Michael Coveney, Maggie Smith: A Bright Particular Star (London: Gollancz, 1992), pp. 96–7; Interview with D.G.
13 Fry in Olivier, ed. Gourlay, pp. 127 and 153; Lewis, Olivier, p. 17; Callow, Being an Actor, p. 171.
14 L.O. to Julian Blaustein, undated, Add Mss 80499; Hayman, Playback, p. 164.
15 On Acting, p. 126; M.A. tapes 31; Callan, Anthony Hopkins, p. 99.
16 Shellard, Tynan, p. 293.
17 M.A. tapes 53.
18 Stephens, Knight Errant, p. 74, and see Coveney, Maggie Smith, p. 99; Interview with William Gaskill.
19 M.A. tapes 1; Anthony Shaffer, So What Did You Expect?: A Memoir (London: Picador, 2001), p. 169.
20 M.A. tapes 53; Coward, Letters, pp. 720–1 and Diaries, p. 575.
21 Coward, Diaries, p. 566, and Letters, p. 723.
22 M.A. tapes 54.
23 Hall, Diaries, p. 6; N.T.B. Minute 81/65 of 10/12/65, Add Mss 79976; Mortimer, Olivier at Work, p. 11; L.O. to David Lewin, 3/2/65, Add Mss 80499A.
24 Memo of 5/10/71, Add Mss 80325.
25 L.O. to Lord Vivian, 11/11/66, Add Mss 79917; Lord Chamberlain’s Office to Tynan, 5/5/65, Add Mss 87879; L.O. to Tynan, 10/1/64, Add Mss 80362.
26 Miles, Serves Me Right, p. 241; Eyre, Utopia, p. 119.
27 Miles to L.O., 29/8/69, L.O. to Anthony Hampton, 5/9/69, L.O. to Miles, 10/10/69, Miles to L.O., 13/10/69, Add Mss 79908.
28 Eyre, Talking Theatre, p. 50.
29 N.T.B., 19/11/63, Add Mss 80318.
30 L.O. to Plummer, 16/11/65, Add Mss 80398; Ian McKellen to L.O., 22/4/65, Add Mss 80397.
31 N.T.B. Finance Committee, 22/5/63, Add Mss 80318; L.O. to Tynan, 4/3/63, Add Mss 80362.
32 Hall to J.P., 8/12/63, Add Mss 79882; N.T.B., 13/1/64, Add Mss 80319; Sunday Times, Atticus column, 16/2/64; Fay, Power Play, pp. 162–3.
33 Tynan to L.O., undated and 24/2/65, Add Mss 80362; D.G. tapes, interview with Havelock-Allan.
34 Daubeny to L.O., 15/12/65, L.O. to Daubeny, undated, Add Mss 80367.
35 Trevelyan to L.O., 5/4/65, Add Mss 80420; L.O. to T.O., 17/1/66, Add Mss 88951/1/2; M.A. tapes 60.
36 Whitelaw, Who He?, p. 93; Confessions, p. 280.
37 L.O. to T.O., 17/1/66, Add Mss 88951/1/2.
CHAPTER TWENTY
1 Interview with T.O.; D.G. tapes, interview with Harris.
2 R.O., Stone Heart, p. 81; Interview with J.P.; L.O. to Grimes, 5/3/68, Add Mss 80303; Whitelaw, Who He?, p. 25.
3 Drake to J.P., 11/7/89, Add Mss 79874; L.O. to T.O., Dec 1961, Add Mss 88951/1/2.
4 R.O., Stone Heart, p. 89; Interview with J.P.
5 M.A. tapes 53; L.O. to T.O., 21/8/66, T.O. papers.
6 L.O. to Richardson, 26/2/67, Add Mss 82045; L.O. to Lewin, 3/2/65, Add Mss 80499A; S.O. to L.O., 29/7/63, Add Mss 79891; Interview with R.O.
7 L.O. to T.O., 12/2/61, Add Mss 88951/1/2; Tarquin Olivier, So Who’s Your Mother? (Norwich: Michael Russell, 2012), p. 132.
8 L.O. to Beaumont, 25/4/65, D.G. papers; Interview with Mrs Tovey, H.V. papers.
9 S. M. Whitteridge to L.O., 9/12/66, Add Mss 80619; Spoto, Olivier, p. 295; Confessions, p. 290; J.E. to T.O., 15/8/67, Add Mss 88951/2/1.
10 L.O. to Chandos, 13/7/67, CHAN 11 4/13 1; D.G. tapes, interview with Irina Tennant; M.A. tapes 34; Fairweather, Cry God for Larry, p. 167; Coward, Diaries, pp. 651–2.
11 Correspondence in Add Mss 79867A.
12 L.O. to Chandos, 13/7/67, CHAN 11 4/13 1; Confessions, p. 293.
13 L.O. to David Fairweather, undated, L.O. to Sunday Times, 29/5/69, L.O. to Chichester Observer, undated, Add Mss 80594.
14 N.T.B. 10/10/66 and 12/12/66, Add Mss 80321; L.O. to Arnold Weissberger, 16/3/66, Add Mss 79921.
15 D.G. tapes, interview with Charles Kay; M.A. tapes 32; Interview with Ronald Pickup; John Dexter, The Honourable Beast: A Posthumous Autobiography (London: Nick Hern Books, 1993), p. 19.
16 L.O. to Dexter, undated draft, Add Mss 80377.
17 M.A. tapes 39; Dexter to L.O., undated, Add Mss 79770.
18 Gaskill in Olivier, ed. Gourlay, p. 176; Interview with Gaskill; M.A. tapes 28.
19 Clark to Chandos, 3/8/66, CHAN 11 4/13 1; M.A. tapes 57.
20 The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan, ed. John Lahr (London: Bloomsbury, 2001), pp. 45 and 54–5.
21 N.T.B. 6/9/71, L.O. to Rae, 27/9/71, Add Mss 80325.
22 Richard Attenborough, Entirely Up To You, Darling (London: Hutchinson, 2008), p. 237; Attenborough to J.P., July 1989, Add Mss 79874.
23 M.A. tapes 38; Lewis, Olivier, p. 78.
24 Jacobi to L.O., undated, Add Mss 80396; Bates to L.O., February 1970, L.O. to Adams, 30/5/69, Add Mss 80394.
25 L.O. to Smith, 29/10/69, L.O. to Dunlop, 7/1/70, Add Mss 80402; Hallifax to L.O., 29/9/69, Smith to L.O., 27/1/70, Add Mss 80424.
26 L.O. to Byam Shaw, 22/10/68, Add Mss 80400.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
1 Billington, Modern Actor, pp. 56–8; M.A. tapes 26.
2 Interview with Michael Blakemore, and D.G. tapes, interview with Blakemore.
3 Gourlay, Olivier, p. 182; L.O. to Lee, 2/11/69, Add Mss 79781.
4 McCartney to Tynan, 24/1/68, Add Mss 87881; Whitelaw, Who He?, p. 79; Devine to Tynan. 9/4/64, Add Mss 87878.
5 L.O. to Tynan, 12/4/64, Add Mss 87878.
6 Tynan to L.O., 3/1/66, Add Mss 87880; Harris to Chandos, 26/4/67, CHAN 114/13 1; Tynan to L.O., undated, Add Mss 87880.
7 Interview with J.P.; Tynan, Tynan, p. 253; Tynan to L.O., 14/12/66, Add Mss 80362.
8 Tynan, Letters, p. 360; M.A. tapes 32; Tynan, Letters, p. 398; N.T.B., 24/4/67, Add Mss 80322.
9 Memo of 26/4/67, Add Mss 80432; Tynan to Arden, 2/2/68, Add Mss 87881; L.O. to Tynan, 4/12/68, Add Mss 80363; Churchill to L.O., 23/12/68, Add Mss 80433; The Times, 20/1/69.
10 Chandos to L.O., 22/1/69, Add Mss 80433.
11 L.O. to Richardson, 26/2/67, Add Mss 82045; Olivier at Work, p. 46; Meyer, Not Prince Hamlet, p. 229; Tynan, Letters, p. 389.
12 M.A. tapes 31; L.O. to Richardson, 26/2/67, Add Mss 82045; Morley, Olivier, p. 152; Richard Findlater, The Player Kings (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971), p. 232.
13 L.O. to Main, 19/2/68, Add Mss 80499A.
14 D.G. tapes, interview with Jane Lapotaire.
15 D.G. tapes, interviews with Lapotaire and Hardwicke.
16 Gielgud, B.B.C. Radio 4 interview, broadcast 3/6/00; Interview with Frank Dunlop.
17 Confessions, p. 287; L.O. to Brook, 21/5/68, Brook to L.O., 8/6/68, L.O. to Brook, 20/6/68, Add Mss 80377.
18 L.O. to Norman Baker, 9/3/70, Add Mss 89884; Stephens, Memo, 24/4/70, Add Mss 80434A; N.T.B. 11/5/70 and 8/6/70, Add Mss 80325; L.O. to Kanin, 9/6/70, and to Coward, 24/6/70, Add Mss 80434A.
19 L.O. to Kanin, 28/9/70 and 29/1/71, Add Mss 80434A; M.A. tapes 32.
20 Interview with Jonathan Miller; M.A. tapes 59 and 16; Miller, Subsequent Performances, p. 104; On Acting, p. 119.
21 D.G. tapes, interview with Lapotaire; Confessions, p. 302; Gielgud, Letters, p. 356; Tynan, Letters, p. 472.
22 M.A. tapes 57; D.G. tapes, interview with Constance Cummings; Interview with J.P.; Plummer, In Spite of Myself, p. 522.
23 D.G. tapes, interview with Cummings; Tynan, Diaries, p. 35.
24 Falk, Hopkins, p. 64; L.O. to Hopkins, 1/6/71, Add Mss 80396.
25 M.A. tapes 5 and 38; L.O. to Tynan, 10/3/70, Add Mss 89884.
26 L.O. to Tynan, 14/12/71, Add Mss 80363; Lewis, Olivier, p. 83.
27 D.G. tapes, interview with L.O.; Wardle, The Times, 22/12/71.
28 Tynan to L.O., 9/12/71, Add Mss 80363; D.G. tapes, interview with Adler.
CHAPTER TWENTY
-TWO
1 Osborne in Olivier, ed. Gourlay, p. 151.
2 J.P., And That’s Not All, pp. 185–6; N.T.B. 10/2/69, Add Mss 80323.
3 Tynan, Letters, p. 503; Richard Eyre, National Service: Diary of a Decade (London: Bloomsbury, 2003), p. 27.
4 Tynan, Letters, p. 503; L.O. to Tynan, 16/2/72, Add Mss 80363.
5 Chandos to L.O., 10/5/67, CHAN 11 4/13 1; Tynan, Letters, pp. 480–1.
6 N.T.B., 7/6/69, Chandos to L.O., 19/6/69, Add Mss 80363.
7 Tynan to L.O., 3/2/72, L.O. to Tynan, 10/3/72, Add Mss 80363; L.O. to Mrs V. Green, 28/7/70, Add Mss 80363.
8 N.T.B. 13/7/70, Add Mss 80325.
9 L.O. to Evans, 30/10/68, Add Mss 80499A.
10 L.O. to Wilson, 14/5/67, CHAN 11 4/13 1; Wilson to L.O., 18/5/67, Add Mss 79864.
11 The Richard Burton Diaries, ed. Chris Williams (London: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 370; M.A. tapes 12; L.O. to various friends, 15/6/70, Add Mss 79864; Interview with J.P.
12 L.O. to Anthony Wagner, 31/7/70, Add Mss 79864.
13 Confessions, pp. 360–4; M.A. tapes 12; J.P., And That’s Not All, p. 203; Interview with J.P.
14 N.T.B. 12/7/71, Add Mss 80325; Fay, Peter Hall, p. 214; Interview with J.P.
15 L.O. to Cottesloe, 8/8/66, Add Mss 80366.
16 O’Connor, Scofield, p. 257; Interview with J.P.
17 M.A. tapes 37; L.O. to Goodman, 5/2/70, Add Mss 80366.
18 Richard Burton Diaries, pp. 459–60; Burton to L.O., undated, Add Mss 79766.
19 M.A. tapes 37.
20 L.O. to Hall, 8/8/66 and 14/9/66, Add Mss 80361.
21 L.O. to Hall, 3/1/68, Hall to L.O., 11/2/68, Add Mss 80368.
22 M.A. tapes 59; L.O. to Shaffer, 16/9/69, Add Mss 87883.
23 M.A. tapes 59.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
1 Callow, Being an Actor, p. 88; L.O. to Peter Brook, 29/8/68, Add Mss 80378; Billington, Modern Actor, pp. 199–200.
2 Confessions, p. 322; L.O. to Gillian Floyd, 11/5/49, Add Mss 79935; Munn, Lord Larry, p. 231.
3 Interview with Tom Stoppard.
4 Interview with D.G.; Baxter, Evening Standard, 21/1/49.
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