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Laurence Olivier: The Authorised Biography By Terry Coleman

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Title
Laurence Olivier: The Authorised Biography
ISBN
9780747583066
Publication Year
2005
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Laurence Olivier: the Authorised Biography
Item Height
234mm
Author
Terry Coleman
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Topic
Television
Item Width
153mm
Number of Pages
624 Pages

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Laurence Olivier is a complex and unexpected portrait of a man tormented by his own ruthless genius and everlasting guilt. It is the story of a High Church clergyman's son who became a West End matinee idol, and only at the age of twenty-eight determined to make himself a great Shakespearean actor, which he did in one season at the Old Vic. The next year he made himself a Hollywood star in Wuthering Heights and Rebecca , then produced, directed and acted in his own Shakespeare movies. Work and sex were for him inseparable: acting, he once said, was like coming for a living. Having abandoned his first wife, he entered a turbulent marriage with the manic depressive Vivien Leigh. She dominated his life for twenty years and they became the royal family of the British stage. Then, to save himself and his work, he 'dropped the legend' and wrenched himself away from her, and was ever afterwards tormented by a sense of sin which only heroic and incessant work could expiate. He married Joan Plowright, a generation younger than himself, had a new young family, and became founding director of the National Theatre. But even the National, in his view, ended in betrayal and tragedy. For twenty years he was stricken by one illness after another. When he could no longer stand on a stage he acted sitting down. In his last years he played so many famous death scenes that when he died at the age of eighty-two his son half expected him to emerge from the house to be congratulated on yet another. St Paul's and Westminster Abbey, the two principal theatres of the Church of England, outbid each other to stage the positively final appearance of the man universally seen as the most magical actor of his day.

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Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13
9780747583066
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Book Title
Laurence Olivier: the Authorised Biography
Author
Terry Coleman
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Television
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
624 Pages

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234mm
Item Width
153mm

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Terry Coleman
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