by Colin Clark
81 Actually Dr Hohenberg was a she.
82 (1923 – 92). Distinguished stage actress whose occasional film appearances included The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Our Man in Havana, The Trials of Oscar Wilde. She was a great friend of Vivien Leigh.
83 Dominic Elwes is now dead, alas, and did indeed turn out to be an expensive flatmate. I was entirely mistaken about David Tennant, however. He more than paid his way before he sold me the lease of the flat and left for the USA. (They were both actually quite big – ‘Little’ was a nickname.)
84 Mr Bonsack had a very expensive bathroom shop, and Mr Fowler was the partner in Colefax & Fowler.
85 (1887 – 1964). Poetess, public figure and celebrated English eccentric. She had met MM at a Hollywood tea party in 1952, and invited her to come to tea in London.
86 Edith’s younger brother (1892 – 1969). Poet, novelist, biographer, autobiographer. Rennishaw Hall was the Sitwell family home in Derbyshire.
87 Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It was released in the US under the title Pursuit of the Graf Spee. Tony Bushell was one of the principal actors.
88 Durable British comic actor, 1918 – 2010.
89 The Bolshoi Ballet was visiting London for the first time since the war. My father had a box for the opening night as he was on the Board of the Royal Opera House. I had taken a beautiful young actress called Maureen Swanson (now Countess of Dudley) but it had been a total failure, which is why I didn’t mention it in my diary.
90 b.1933. Her English-language films included Manuela, The Trial, Marco the Magnificent.
91 Eton slang for desk (‘bureau’).
92 In fact his next project was to be one of the most unexpected and significant stage performances of his career — as Archie Rice in John Osborne’s The Entertainer at the Royal Court, directed by George Devine.
93 Katharine Hepburn had been a witness at SLO’s secret marriage to Vivien in California in 1940. In 1973 she and SLO made their only acting appearance together, as the ageing couple in Love Among the Ruins, directed by George Cukor for American television.
94 Play by Jean Giraudoux (1882 – 1944). It was filmed in 1969 starring, coincidentally, Katharine Hepburn.
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