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14
L.O. to Julian Blaustein, undated, Add Mss 80499; Hayman,
Playback
, p. 164.

15
On Acting
, p. 126; M.A. tapes 31; Callan,
Anthony Hopkins
, p. 99.

16
Shellard,
Tynan
, p. 293.

17
M.A. tapes 53.

18
Stephens,
Knight Errant
, p. 74, and see Coveney,
Maggie Smith
, p. 99; Interview with William Gaskill.

19
M.A. tapes 1; Anthony Shaffer,
So What Did You Expect?: A Memoir
(London: Picador, 2001), p. 169.

20
M.A. tapes 53; Coward,
Letters
, pp. 720–1 and
Diaries
, p. 575.

21
Coward,
Diaries
, p. 566, and
Letters
, p. 723.

22
M.A. tapes 54.

23
Hall,
Diaries
, p. 6; N.T.B. Minute 81/65 of 10/12/65, Add Mss 79976; Mortimer,
Olivier at Work
, p. 11; L.O. to David Lewin, 3/2/65, Add Mss 80499A.

24
Memo of 5/10/71, Add Mss 80325.

25
L.O. to Lord Vivian, 11/11/66, Add Mss 79917; Lord Chamberlain’s Office to Tynan, 5/5/65, Add Mss 87879; L.O. to Tynan, 10/1/64, Add Mss 80362.

26
Miles,
Serves Me Right
, p. 241; Eyre,
Utopia
, p. 119.

27
Miles to L.O., 29/8/69, L.O. to Anthony Hampton, 5/9/69, L.O. to Miles, 10/10/69, Miles to L.O., 13/10/69, Add Mss 79908.

28
Eyre,
Talking Theatre
, p. 50.

29
N.T.B., 19/11/63, Add Mss 80318.

30
L.O. to Plummer, 16/11/65, Add Mss 80398; Ian McKellen to L.O., 22/4/65, Add Mss 80397.

31
N.T.B. Finance Committee, 22/5/63, Add Mss 80318; L.O. to Tynan, 4/3/63, Add Mss 80362.

32
Hall to J.P., 8/12/63, Add Mss 79882; N.T.B., 13/1/64, Add Mss 80319;
Sunday Times
, Atticus column, 16/2/64; Fay,
Power Play
, pp. 162–3.

33
Tynan to L.O., undated and 24/2/65, Add Mss 80362; D.G. tapes, interview with Havelock-Allan.

34
Daubeny to L.O., 15/12/65, L.O. to Daubeny, undated, Add Mss 80367.

35
Trevelyan to L.O., 5/4/65, Add Mss 80420; L.O. to T.O., 17/1/66, Add Mss 88951/1/2; M.A. tapes 60.

36
Whitelaw,
Who He?
, p. 93;
Confessions
, p. 280.

37
L.O. to T.O., 17/1/66, Add Mss 88951/1/2.

CHAPTER TWENTY

1
Interview with T.O.; D.G. tapes, interview with Harris.

2
R.O.,
Stone Heart
, p. 81; Interview with J.P.; L.O. to Grimes, 5/3/68, Add Mss 80303; Whitelaw,
Who He?
, p. 25.

3
Drake to J.P., 11/7/89, Add Mss 79874; L.O. to T.O., Dec 1961, Add Mss 88951/1/2.

4
R.O.,
Stone Heart
, p. 89; Interview with J.P.

5
M.A. tapes 53; L.O. to T.O., 21/8/66, T.O. papers.

6
L.O. to Richardson, 26/2/67, Add Mss 82045; L.O. to Lewin, 3/2/65, Add Mss 80499A; S.O. to L.O., 29/7/63, Add Mss 79891; Interview with R.O.

7
L.O. to T.O., 12/2/61, Add Mss 88951/1/2; Tarquin Olivier,
So Who’s Your Mother?
(Norwich: Michael Russell, 2012), p. 132.

8
L.O. to Beaumont, 25/4/65, D.G. papers; Interview with Mrs Tovey, H.V. papers.

9
S. M. Whitteridge to L.O., 9/12/66, Add Mss 80619; Spoto,
Olivier
, p. 295;
Confessions
, p. 290; J.E. to T.O., 15/8/67, Add Mss 88951/2/1.

10
L.O. to Chandos, 13/7/67, CHAN 11 4/13 1; D.G. tapes, interview with Irina Tennant; M.A. tapes 34; Fairweather,
Cry God for Larry
, p. 167; Coward,
Diaries
, pp. 651–2.

11
Correspondence in Add Mss 79867A.

12
L.O. to Chandos, 13/7/67, CHAN 11 4/13 1;
Confessions
, p. 293.

13
L.O. to David Fairweather, undated, L.O. to
Sunday Times
, 29/5/69, L.O. to
Chichester Observer
, undated, Add Mss 80594.

14
N.T.B. 10/10/66 and 12/12/66, Add Mss 80321; L.O. to Arnold Weissberger, 16/3/66, Add Mss 79921.

15
D.G. tapes, interview with Charles Kay; M.A. tapes 32; Interview with Ronald Pickup; John Dexter,
The Honourable Beast: A Posthumous Autobiography
(London: Nick Hern Books, 1993), p. 19.

16
L.O. to Dexter, undated draft, Add Mss 80377.

17
M.A. tapes 39; Dexter to L.O., undated, Add Mss 79770.

18
Gaskill in
Olivier
, ed. Gourlay, p. 176; Interview with Gaskill; M.A. tapes 28.

19
Clark to Chandos, 3/8/66, CHAN 11 4/13 1; M.A. tapes 57.

20
The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
, ed. John Lahr (London: Bloomsbury, 2001), pp. 45 and 54–5.

21
N.T.B. 6/9/71, L.O. to Rae, 27/9/71, Add Mss 80325.

22
Richard Attenborough,
Entirely Up To You, Darling
(London: Hutchinson, 2008), p. 237; Attenborough to J.P., July 1989, Add Mss 79874.

23
M.A. tapes 38; Lewis,
Olivier
, p. 78.

24
Jacobi to L.O., undated, Add Mss 80396; Bates to L.O., February 1970, L.O. to Adams, 30/5/69, Add Mss 80394.

25
L.O. to Smith, 29/10/69, L.O. to Dunlop, 7/1/70, Add Mss 80402; Hallifax to L.O., 29/9/69, Smith to L.O., 27/1/70, Add Mss 80424.

26
L.O. to Byam Shaw, 22/10/68, Add Mss 80400.

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

1
Billington,
Modern Actor
, pp. 56–8; M.A. tapes 26.

2
Interview with Michael Blakemore, and D.G. tapes, interview with Blakemore.

3
Gourlay,
Olivier
, p. 182; L.O. to Lee, 2/11/69, Add Mss 79781.

4
McCartney to Tynan, 24/1/68, Add Mss 87881; Whitelaw,
Who He?
, p. 79; Devine to Tynan. 9/4/64, Add Mss 87878.

5
L.O. to Tynan, 12/4/64, Add Mss 87878.

6
Tynan to L.O., 3/1/66, Add Mss 87880; Harris to Chandos, 26/4/67, CHAN 114/13 1; Tynan to L.O., undated, Add Mss 87880.

7
Interview with J.P.; Tynan,
Tynan
, p. 253; Tynan to L.O., 14/12/66, Add Mss 80362.

8
Tynan,
Letters,
p. 360; M.A. tapes 32; Tynan,
Letters
, p. 398; N.T.B., 24/4/67, Add Mss 80322.

9
Memo of 26/4/67, Add Mss 80432; Tynan to Arden, 2/2/68, Add Mss 87881; L.O. to Tynan, 4/12/68, Add Mss 80363; Churchill to L.O., 23/12/68, Add Mss 80433;
The Times
, 20/1/69.

10
Chandos to L.O., 22/1/69, Add Mss 80433.

11
L.O. to Richardson, 26/2/67, Add Mss 82045;
Olivier at Work
, p. 46; Meyer,
Not Prince Hamlet
, p. 229; Tynan,
Letters
, p. 389.

12
M.A. tapes 31; L.O. to Richardson, 26/2/67, Add Mss 82045; Morley,
Olivier
, p. 152; Richard Findlater,
The Player Kings
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971), p. 232.

13
L.O. to Main, 19/2/68, Add Mss 80499A.

14
D.G. tapes, interview with Jane Lapotaire.

15
D.G. tapes, interviews with Lapotaire and Hardwicke.

16
Gielgud, B.B.C. Radio 4 interview, broadcast 3/6/00; Interview with Frank Dunlop.

17
Confessions
, p. 287; L.O. to Brook, 21/5/68, Brook to L.O., 8/6/68, L.O. to Brook, 20/6/68, Add Mss 80377.

18
L.O. to Norman Baker, 9/3/70, Add Mss 89884; Stephens, Memo, 24/4/70, Add Mss 80434A; N.T.B. 11/5/70 and 8/6/70, Add Mss 80325; L.O. to Kanin, 9/6/70, and to Coward, 24/6/70, Add Mss 80434A.

19
L.O. to Kanin, 28/9/70 and 29/1/71, Add Mss 80434A; M.A. tapes 32.

20
Interview with Jonathan Miller; M.A. tapes 59 and 16; Miller,
Subsequent Performances
, p. 104;
On Acting
, p. 119.

21
D.G. tapes, interview with Lapotaire;
Confessions
, p. 302; Gielgud,
Letters
, p. 356; Tynan,
Letters
, p. 472.

22
M.A. tapes 57; D.G. tapes, interview with Constance Cummings; Interview with J.P.; Plummer,
In Spite of Myself
, p. 522.

23
D.G. tapes, interview with Cummings; Tynan,
Diaries
, p. 35.

24
Falk,
Hopkins
, p. 64; L.O. to Hopkins, 1/6/71, Add Mss 80396.

25
M.A. tapes 5 and 38; L.O. to Tynan, 10/3/70, Add Mss 89884.

26
L.O. to Tynan, 14/12/71, Add Mss 80363; Lewis,
Olivier
, p. 83.

27
D.G. tapes, interview with L.O.; Wardle,
The Times
, 22/12/71.

28
Tynan to L.O., 9/12/71, Add Mss 80363; D.G. tapes, interview with Adler.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

1
Osborne in
Olivier
, ed. Gourlay, p. 151.

2
J.P.,
And That’s Not All,
pp. 185–6; N.T.B. 10/2/69, Add Mss 80323.

3
Tynan,
Letters
, p. 503; Richard Eyre,
National Service: Diary of a Decade
(London: Bloomsbury, 2003), p. 27.

4
Tynan,
Letters
, p. 503; L.O. to Tynan, 16/2/72, Add Mss 80363.

5
Chandos to L.O., 10/5/67, CHAN 11 4/13 1; Tynan,
Letters
, pp. 480–1.

6
N.T.B., 7/6/69, Chandos to L.O., 19/6/69, Add Mss 80363.

7
Tynan to L.O., 3/2/72, L.O. to Tynan, 10/3/72, Add Mss 80363; L.O. to Mrs V. Green, 28/7/70, Add Mss 80363.

8
N.T.B. 13/7/70, Add Mss 80325.

9
L.O. to Evans, 30/10/68, Add Mss 80499A.

10
L.O. to Wilson, 14/5/67, CHAN 11 4/13 1; Wilson to L.O., 18/5/67, Add Mss 79864.

11
The Richard Burton Diaries
, ed. Chris Williams (London: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 370; M.A. tapes 12; L.O. to various friends, 15/6/70, Add Mss 79864; Interview with J.P.

12
L.O. to Anthony Wagner, 31/7/70, Add Mss 79864.

13
Confessions
, pp. 360–4; M.A. tapes 12; J.P.,
And That’s Not All
, p. 203; Interview with J.P.

14
N.T.B. 12/7/71, Add Mss 80325; Fay,
Peter Hall
, p. 214; Interview with J.P.

15
L.O. to Cottesloe, 8/8/66, Add Mss 80366.

16
O’Connor,
Scofield
, p. 257; Interview with J.P.

17
M.A. tapes 37; L.O. to Goodman, 5/2/70, Add Mss 80366.

18
Richard Burton Diaries
, pp. 459–60; Burton to L.O., undated, Add Mss 79766.

19
M.A. tapes 37.

20
L.O. to Hall, 8/8/66 and 14/9/66, Add Mss 80361.

21
L.O. to Hall, 3/1/68, Hall to L.O., 11/2/68, Add Mss 80368.

22
M.A. tapes 59; L.O. to Shaffer, 16/9/69, Add Mss 87883.

23
M.A. tapes 59.

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

1
Callow,
Being an Actor
, p. 88; L.O. to Peter Brook, 29/8/68, Add Mss 80378; Billington,
Modern Actor
, pp. 199–200.

2
Confessions
, p. 322; L.O. to Gillian Floyd, 11/5/49, Add Mss 79935; Munn,
Lord Larry
, p. 231.

3
Interview with Tom Stoppard.

4
Interview with D.G.; Baxter,
Evening Standard
, 21/1/49.

5
Interview with J.P.; Elsom and Tomalin,
National Theatre
, pp. 234–5.

6
Hall,
Diaries
, p. xi; J.P.,
And That’s Not All
, p. 208.

7
L.O. to Rayne, 5/5/72, and Rayne to L.O., 8/5/72, Add Mss 80365.

8
J.P.,
And That’s Not All
, p. 209; J.P. to Tynan, 11/10/72, Add Mss 87886.

9
M.A. tapes 43.

10
Hall,
Diaries
, p. 3.

11
Hall,
Diaries
, p. 7; Lipman to L.O., 17/3/73, Add Mss 80401.

12
Kathleen Tynan,
Tynan
, p. 314; Hall,
Diaries
, pp. 7–8; Tynan,
Diaries
, p. 88; N.T.B. 8/5/72, Add Mss 80326.

13
Rayne to L.O., 14/4/72, Add Mss 80365; Hall,
Diaries
, p. 9.

14
Meeting of 25/4/72, Add Mss 80365; Worsley to L.O., 21/12/73, Add Mss 79780; L.O. to Keenan Wynn, 16/2/70, Add Mss 80505.

15
Shaffer,
So What Did You Expect?
, p. 61; Interview with J.P.

16
Shaffer,
So What Did You Expect?
, p. 78; Spoto,
Olivier
, p. 314;
Confessions
, p. 315; Michael Caine,
The Elephant to Hollywood
(London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010), p. 175.

17
L.O. to Richardson, 3/5/72, and Richardson to L.O., 10/5/72, Add Ms 79777; Kenneth Geist,
Pictures Will Talk: The Life and Films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz
(New York: Scribner, 1978), p. 378.

18
Caine,
Elephant to Hollywood
, p. 175.

19
L.O. to Pinter, 22/11/72, Add Mss 79777; Interview with J.P.

20
Memo for N.T.B. 12/3/73, Add Mss 80329; Furse to L.O., undated, Add Mss 79771.

21
L.O. to Hall, 1/3/73, Hall to L.O., undated, Add Mss 80361; L.O. to Hall, 6/9/72, Hall to L.O., 12/9/72, Add Mss 80329.

22
L.O. to Rayne, 6/2/73, Rayne to L.O., 20/2/73, Add Mss 80365.

23
J.P. to Dexter, 31/10/72, Add Mss 79882; Tynan,
Diaries
, p. 119.

24
Hall,
Diaries
, pp. 33 and 38.

25
Hall,
Diaries
, p. 71.

26
Hall to L.O., 25/1/74, L.O. to Hall, undated, Add Mss 80361.

27
Hall,
Diaries
, p. 12.

28
Tynan,
Diaries
, p. 119; Simon Callow,
The National: The Theatre and its Work 1963–97
(London: Nick Hern Books, 1997), p. 42.

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