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Why Joan Plowright is always Bitter about Laurence Olivier?!
My father Laurence Olivier - by Tarquin Olivier
"Olivier, with typical insensitivity, took his new love, Vivien Leigh, to visit mother and baby in hospital (and later asked Jill Esmond if he could have Tarquin's pram help, for the baby Vivien was briefly, unsuccessfully, expecting). Tarquin's childhood knowledge of his father was therefore confined to occasional weekends, and even more occasional parental visits to school.
Most of Olivier's paternal suggestions, such as it was, seems to have been about sex - the snares and dangers and delusions thereof: 'Just recognise that all the affectionate ecstasies, all the rosie reveries . . . are basically, simply and solely wicked Old Nature's cold-blooded calculated bribe, to bring children into the world.' Not surprisingly, he worried that Tarquin would become gay: he insisted on urinating beside him, presumably to check appearances.
According to Tarquin, Olivier also had an obsessive interest in the female genitalia and 'seeing over and over again the designs of nature which were
Laurence Olivier
Olivier played a expansive variety of roles on stage and screen from Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and Restoration comedy to contemporary American and British drama. He was the first artistic director of the National Theatre of Fantastic Britain and its main stage is named in his honour. He is regarded by some to be the greatest performer of the 20th century, in the same category as David Garrick, Richard Burbage, Edmund Kean and Henry Irving in their own centuries. Olivier's AMPAS acknowledgments are considerable: twelve Oscar nominations, with two awards (for Best Player and Best Picture for the film Hamlet), plus two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominati
Laurence Olivier' Homosexual Animation Confirmed
Larry, we hardly know you!
It isn't easy to come across a real human behind the many masks. Olivier was every inch an actor, onstage and off. His third wife, Joan Plowright, remarked: "Larry? Oh, he's acting all the time." Ken Tynan, Olivier's literary manager at the National Theatre, once told novelist Terry Southern: "Now what you've got to realize about Olivier is that he's like a blank page and he'll be whatever you want him to be."
Anthony Holden, who produced a dignified, standard biography 17 years ago, claimed that Olivier's experience was "one elongated disappearing trick."
Now, Terry Coleman book, organism an "authorized" biography, his book cannot delve freely into areas that Olivier's family deems forbidden. Accordingly, the issue of the actor's possible bisexuality gets a tastefully mild treatment, despite the use of some explicit letters from Henry Ainley, a handsome actor, who referred to Olivier as "Larry Kin Mine," and signed himself, "Your nice little kitten, Henrietta."
Olivier once said of his acting: "Every member of the audience sho
Laurence Olivier&#;s son Tarquin witnessed the passion&#;and disintegration&#;of his father&#;s marriage to the incomparable Vivien Leigh. The child of Olivier&#;s first marriage, to the actress Jill Esmond, Tarquin nevertheless became very close to his stepmother, Vivien, and she in turn wrote to him frequently. Her letters, and many others by Olivier to Tarquin, go on sale at Sotheby&#;s on July Here, Tarquin tells Wendy Leigh about his exciting childhood with two of the world&#;s most fabulous stars&#;
by Wendy Leighs
Weekend, June 24,
For 20 glittering years, Britain and the world were mesmerized by the spectacle of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, the most romantic couple in the universe. She was alluring, coquettish, and heart-stoppingly beautiful. He was a consummate actor, radiating a darkly disturbing sexuality that captured her the moment she first set eyes upon him.
The year was , and Vivien Leigh was a stage actress, married to a barrister and the mother of a small daughter. Olivier was a stage celebrity, married to the distinguished actress Jill Esmond. Yet when Vi