Olivier (63 page)

21
M.A. tapes 57; Spoto,
Olivier
, p. 98; M.A. tapes, J.E.; Add Mss 79803.

22
Confessions
, p. 108; Add Mss 79868.

1
M.A. tapes 9; A. Scott Berg,
Goldwyn: A Biography
(London: Sphere, 1989), p. 322.

2
Confessions
, p. 114.

3
S.O., biography, p. 148; M.A. tapes 10; Wyler in
Olivier
, ed. Gourlay, pp. 84–5; Alexander Knox in
Olivier
, ed. Gourlay, p. 89; Spoto,
Olivier
, p. 112.

4
Michael Munn,
David Niven: The Man behind the Balloon
(London: JR Books, 2009), pp. 85–6.

5
M.A. tapes 10; Susana Walton,
William Walton: Behind the Façade
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 138; Munn,
Niven
, pp. 85–6.

6
Wyler in
Olivier
, ed. Gourlay, p. 87; M.A. tapes 9.

7
Graham Greene,
The Pleasure-Dome: The Collected Film Criticism 1935–40
(London: Secker and Warburg, 1972), p. 220; Herman,
Wyler
, p. 460.

8
There are several differing accounts of this episode. Probably the most reliable is that of Irene Mayer Selznick in
A Private View
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983), p. 215.

9
M.A. tapes 29; Lasky,
Love Scene
, pp. 116 and 73–4; Fairbanks,
Salad Days
, p. 344.

10
M.A. tapes 9 and 29.

11
Tad Mosel,
Leading Lady: The World and Theatre of Katharine Cornell
(New York: Little, Brown, 1978), p. 155; M.A. tapes 29; Interview with Derek Granger.

12
S.O. to L.O., 7/5/39, Add Mss 79891; M.A. tapes 29; Gerald Olivier to L.O., 18/2/37, Add Mss 79890A.

13
S.O. to L.O., 7/5/39, Add Mss 79891; J.E. to L.O., 1/5/39, Add Mss 79879.

14
M.A. tapes 37;
Memo from David O. Selznick
, pp. 144 and 264.

15
M.A. tapes 37; Charlotte Chandler,
It’s Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock: A Personal Biography
(London: Simon & Schuster, 2005), pp. 126–7;
Memo from David O. Selznick
, p. 264.

16
Chandler,
Hitchcock
, pp. 124–6;
Sunday Times
, 3/11/63.

17
Korda to L.O., and L.O. to Korda, 22/6/39, Add Mss 80461A.

18
Memo from David O. Selznick
, p. 274; Douglas Fairbanks Jr.,
A Hell of a War
(London: Robson Books, 1995), p. 56.

1
H.V.,
Leigh
, p. 94.

2
M.A. tapes 10 and 43.

3
Munn,
Niven
, p. 92;
Confessions
, p. 123.

4
Munn,
Lord Larry
, pp. 111–18.

5
Cottrell,
Olivier
, pp. 176–7; Coward,
Letters
, pp. 408–9; Jesse,
Love Scene
, p. 126; J.E. to Mrs Esmond, 28/12/40, Add Mss 88951/2/1.

6
M.A. tapes 10.

7
V.L. to Leigh Holman, 9/8/40,
cit.
Alan Dent,
Vivien Leigh: A Bouquet
(London: Hamilton, 1969), p. 34; Michael Korda,
Charmed Lives: A Family Romance
(London: Allen Lane, 1980), p. 151.

8
Michael Powell,
A Life in Movies: An Autobiography
(London: Heinemann, 1986), p. 363.

9
M.A. tapes 19; Reader Bullard, “The birthday party that changed the war”,
Password
34 (December 2012);
Tatler and Bystander
, 6/8/41.

10
S.O., biography, p. 158.

11
James Carson,
Modern Screen
(June 1940); H.V.,
Leigh
, p. 132.

12
V.L. to Leigh Holman, 30/4/40,
cit.
Dent,
Leigh
, p. 34; Barker,
Oliviers
, p. 171.

13
Kiernan,
Olivier
, p. 191;
Confessions
, p. 121;
New York Times
, 10/5/40.

14
Barker,
Oliviers
, p. 174; Jesse,
Love Scene
, p. 123; S.O., biography, pp. 162–3.

15
Spoto,
Olivier
, p. 131;
On Acting
, p. 15.

16
J.E. to Mrs Esmond, 22/7/40, 9/8/40 and 30/10/40, Add Mss 88951/4.

17
J.E. to Mrs Esmond, 26/10/41, Add Mss 88951/4.

18
T.O.,
My Father
, p. 86.

19
Barker,
Oliviers
, pp. 182–3.

20
Coward,
Letters
, pp. 408–9.

1
Bernstein to L.O., 27/1/41, Add Mss 79766; M.A. tapes 18.

2
M.A. tapes 18; O’Connor,
Richardson
, pp. 104–5.

3
L.O. to J.E., undated, Add Mss 88951/1/1; D.G. tapes, interview with Jack Hedley; M.A. tapes 38.

4
The Noël Coward Diaries
, ed. Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley (Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1982), p. 8.

5
Confessions
, p. 128; Richard Huggett,
Binkie Beaumont: Eminence Grise of the West End Theatre
(London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989), p. 275.

6
M.A. tapes 18.

7
Diaries, Add Mss 79795; M.A. tapes 26.

8
Confessions
, p. 131; Asquith to L.O., 24/11/43, Add Mss 79766;
Olivier: The Films and Faces of Laurence Olivier
, ed. Margaret Morley (Godalming: LSP Books, 1978), p. 95.

9
Powell,
Life in Movies
, p. 402.

10
J.E. to L.O., 26/4/42 and 25/9/42, Add Mss 79879.

11
Gielgud to Mrs Gielgud, 10/9/41, Add Mss 81308; Vickers,
Leigh
, p. 138; Herman,
Wyler
, p. 253; Thomson,
Selznick
, p. 479; L.O. to ‘Trudie’, 25/9/42, H.V. papers.

12
Confessions
, p. 130; Powell,
Life in Movies
, pp. 401–2; Interview with T.O.

13
Spoto,
Olivier
, pp. 142–3; Powell,
Life in Movies
, p. 602; Note by Furse, P.H. papers.

14
L.O. to Young, undated, Add Mss 79780.

15
D.G. tapes, interview with Dallas Bower; L.O. to T.O., 1/8/43, Add Mss 88951/1/2.

16
John Gielgud,
Shakespeare: Hit or Miss?
(London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1991), p. 50; Esmond Knight,
Seeking the Bubble
(London: Hutchinson, 1943), p. 95; M.A. tapes 39.

17
L.O. to Muriel Smith, undated, Add Mss 80087; Walton,
Walton
, pp. 94–5.

18
M.A. tapes 13; D.G. tapes, interview with Dallas Bower; Andrews in
Olivier
, ed. Gourlay, p. 77.

19
L.O. to Young, undated, Add Mss 79780; Spoto,
Olivier
, p. 147; M.A. tapes 14.

20
James Agate,
Ego 7: Even More of the Autobiography of James Agate
(London: Harrap, 1945), p. 311; Melvyn Bragg,
Laurence Olivier
(London: Hutchinson, 1984), p. 73.

21
D.G. tapes, interview with Dallas Bower.

22
Confessions
, pp. 135–7; T.O.,
My Father
, p. 128; V.L. to L.O., 2/8/43, Add Mss 80719

23
Lasky,
Love Scene
, p. 151; Note by Furse, P.H. papers.

24
Barker,
Oliviers
, p. 204; D.G. papers, interview with Stephen Greif.

25
M.A. tapes 39.

1
Cit.
Richard Eyre,
Utopia and Other Places
(London: Bloomsbury, 1993), p. 119.

2
M.A. tapes 9; Radie Harris,
Radie’s World
(London: W. H. Allen, 1975), p. 95.

3
Dominic Shellard,
Kenneth Tynan: A Life
(New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2003), p. 84; Kenneth Tynan,
The Sound of Two Hands Clapping
(London: Cape, 1975), p. 127; Mortimer, in
Olivier at Work
, p. 9.

4
Interview with Michael Redington; Guthrie,
In Various Directions,
pp. 157–8; Simon Callow,
Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor
(London: Methuen, 1987), p. 249.

5
Kiernan,
Olivier
, p. 143.

6
Peter Brook,
The Empty Space
(London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968), p. 138; Ronald Hayman,
Playback
(London: Davis-Poynter, 1973), p. 161; Interview with Ronald Pickup.

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.

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).