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Directions
, pp. 76–8; Tynan,
He That Plays the King
, pp. 134–5.
    19 Jerry Vermilye,
The Complete Films of Laurence Olivier
(New York: Carol Publishing, 1992), p. 415; L.O. to Rank, 9/5/47, Add Mss 80479; Mathieson to L.O., undated, Add Mss 79776.
CHAPTER TEN
    1 M.A. tapes 26.
    2 L.O. to Richardson, 26/10/46, Add Mss 79786; L.O. to Alan Moore, 25/2/50, Add Mss 79908; L.O. to Jane Smith, 7/11/51, James Jackson to L.O., undated, Add Mss 79932.
    3 M.A. tapes 20; L.O. to Coward, in Coward,
Letters
, p. 531; Gielgud,
Letters
, p. 105.
    4 Beyer to Stephen Thomas, 23/2/48, Add Mss 79978.
    5 D.G. tapes, interview with Alec McCowen; Cushing,
Olivier
, ed. Gourlay, p. 124; Garry O’Connor,
Darlings of the Gods: One Year in the Lives of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh
(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1984), p. 82; Cushing to L.O., 20/3/48, Add Mss 79768; V.L. to Mu Richardson, 15/5/48, Add Mss 82044.
    6 M.A. tapes 20; Barker,
Oliviers
, p. 278.
    7 M.A. tapes 20; O’Connor,
Darlings of the Gods
, p. 94.
    8 L.O. to Burrell, 20/3/48,
cit.
O’Connor,
Richardson
, p. 147; Cushing,
Olivier
, ed. Gourlay, p. 124; D.G. tapes, interview with Georgina Dumel.
    9 L.O.’s Notebook, 5/4/48, Add Mss 79980.
    10 Beyer report of 16/4/48, Add Mss 79975; V.L. to Mu Richardson, 15/4/48, Add Mss 82044; Redington to H. J. Keates, 5/10/48, Redington papers; Barker,
Oliviers
, p. 282; Freyberg to L.O., 15/10/48, Add Mss 79978.
    11 L.O. to Tennant, 14/7/48, Add Mss 79981; Tennant to L.O., 13/7/48, Add Mss 79978.
    12 L.O. to S.O., quoted in L.O. to Tennant, 5/8/48, Add Mss 80594.
    13
Confessions
, p. 168; L.O. to Tennant, 19/6/48, Add Mss 79977.
    14
Confessions
, p. 165.
    15 George Chamberlain to Tennant, 24/7/47, Add Mss 79977; L.O. to Tennant, 14/7/48, Add Mss 79981.
    16 Harold Hobson,
Theatre in Britain: A Personal View
(Oxford: Phaidon, 1984), pp. 138–9.
    17 Guthrie,
A Life in the Theatre
, p. 203; John Elsom and Nicholas Tomalin,
The History of the National Theatre
(London: Cape, 1978), pp. 96–7; M.A. tapes 26.
    18 O’Connor,
Richardson
, pp. 134–5.
    19 Hamilton to L.O., 16/12/48, Chamberlain to L.O., 19/7/48, Richardson to L.O., 22/9/48, Add Mss 79777.
    20
Confessions
, p. 168; Elaine Dundy,
Finch, Bloody Finch: A Biography of Peter Finch
(London: Joseph, 1980), pp. 127–9; L.O. to Tennant, 31/8/48, D.G. papers.
    21 H.V.,
Leigh,
pp. 179–80; O’Connor,
Darlings of the Gods
, p. 3.
    22 O’Connor,
Darlings of the Gods
, p. 122; L.O. to Stephen Watts, 13/2/46, Add Mss 80619.
    23 H.V. papers, interview with Emma Brash;
Confessions
, p. 170.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
    1 M.A. tapes 26.
    2 M.A. tapes 26; Hunt to L.O., 23/12/48, 2/5/50, 22/12/50, Add Mss 79977.
    3 L.O. to Beaton, 15/10/48, H.V. papers; Cecil Beaton,
The Strenuous Years: Diaries 1948–55
(London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973), pp. 19–20.
    4 Esher to L.O., June 1949, Add Mss 79977.
    5 L.O. to Thorndike, 23/10/52, Add Mss 79779.
    6 Selznick,
Private View
, p. 321.
    7 L.O. to L. F. Pickin, 18/10/49, Add Mss 80034; Selznick,
Private View
, p. 324; L.O. to Kanin, 6/10/49, Add Mss 79773; M.A. tapes 35.
    8 M.A. tapes 57.
    9 L.O. to J. B. Priestley, 9 and 21/11/49, Add Mss 79777.
    10 Add Mss 79766; Stefan Kanfer,
Somebody. The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008), p. 99;
Confessions
, p. 92; Simon Callow,
My Life in Pieces: An Alternative Autobiography
(London: Nick Hern Books, 2010), p. 198.
    11 Gielgud,
Letters
, p. 483; Interview with T.O.; Rattigan to L.O., undated, Add Ms 79777; Beaton, Diary, H.V. papers; Adrian Woodhouse,
Angus McBean: Facemaker
(London: Alma, 2006), p. 148;
The Kenneth Williams Diaries
, ed. Russell Davies (London: HarperCollins, 1993), p. 238.
    12 D.G. tapes, interview with Rosemary Harris; Bloom to L.O., undated, Add Mss 79766; Graham Lord,
Niv: The Authorised Biography of David Niven
(London: Orion, 2003), p. 308.
    13 L.O. to T.O., 20/7/51, Add Mss 88951/1/2; J.E. to L.O., 1/1/52, Add Mss 79897; L.O. to T.O.,