Olivier (65 page)

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
Croall,
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.