Buy this book on-line HOLDEN,ANTHONY: : OLIVIERLONDON.GEORGE WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON LIMITED,1988. ISBN 0297790897.
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Laurence Olivier is not merely the greatest actor of this century,perhaps of all time.He has also been stage and screen director,impressario,founder of the National Theatre,Oscar-winning Hollywood heartthrob and the first peer in the history of his profession of 'rogues and vagabonds'.He has been husband,lover, father and friend.
Olivier has played many parts,lived many lives,in his eighty action-packed years.He has known triumph,tragedy,failure and fulfilment.Never before have many different strands of his astonishing career,both onstage and off,been pulled together as tellingly as in this definitive biography by Anthony Holden, award-winning journalist and best-selling biographer of Prince Charles.
From Hamlet to Archie Rose,Heathcliff to Rudolf Hess,Olivier has devoted his life to impersonating a bewildering variety of men.On stage as off,writes Holden,the Olivier story is 'one long disappearing act'.But what of the real character behind the make-up? Who is the eccentric vicar's son who filled the Old Vic at thirty, married the wayward Vivien Leigh,and shared West End billing with a succession of pop stars as he turned eighty?
How good a performance has Olivier turned in as himself? This is the question Anthony Holden sets out to answer in his perceptive,witty and penetrating portrait, as much a study of the art of acting as the standard biography of one of the giant figures of our time.
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