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An edition of Olivier (2005)

Olivier

1st U.S. ed.
  • 1 Want to read

"In this biography, acclaimed biographer Terry Coleman draws for the first time on the vast archive of Olivier's private papers and correspondence and those of his family, finally revealing the history and the private self that Olivier worked so masterfully all his life to obscure. Olivier maintained a volatile connection between his acting and his personal relationships. Following the death of his mother when he was eleven, Olivier was defined by a passionate devotion to the women closest to him." "And for Olivier, acting and sex were for him inseparable: his turbulent marriage to Gone With the Wind star Vivien Leigh became both a powerful inspiration and a relentless torment, and for twenty years the two were the royal family of the British stage. Through this and other famous romances - including his third marriage, to Joan Plowright - as well as trysts with lesser-known mistresses, his romantic life was constantly entangled with his stage work, each feeding the other and driving Olivier to greater heights. And the heights were great. At every step he was surrounded by the foremost celebrities of the time, on both sides of the Atlantic - Richard Burton, Tennessee Williams, Greta Garbo, William Wyler, Arhur Miller, Katharine Hepburn. The list is as long as it is dazzling." "Here is the first comprehensive account of the man whose own autobiography, written late in his life, told only a small part of the story. In Olivier, Coleman uncovers the origins of Olivier's genius and reveals the methods of the century's most fascinating performer."--BOOK JACKET

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English
Pages
595

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Olivier
October 31, 2006, Owl Books
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Olivier
2005, H. Holt, Henry Holt and Co.
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October 13, 2005, Henry Holt and Co.
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 514-567) and index.

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Library of Congress
PN2598.O55 C56 2005, PN2598.O55 C56 2005, PN2598.O55C56 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 595 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
595

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15590406M
Internet Archive
olivier00cole
ISBN 10
0805075364
ISBN 13
9780805075366
LCCN
2005045957
OCLC/WorldCat
58594973
Library Thing
376731
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
1192607

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