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1. Add MS 89150/7

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Add MS 89150/7
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Items relating to the Old Vic Company, in particular its tour to Australia and New Zealand in 1948. Contents: Silk scarf, inscribed ‘To commemorate the visit of the Old Vic Company with Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh 1948’. Brochure for the tour, published by the British Council, 1948. Si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1948-1949
Extent:
1 file (4 items)

2. Add MS 89150/2

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Add MS 89150/2
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Correspondence relating to the transfer of responsibility for writing the authorised biography to Terry Coleman, and the possibilities of repayment of the advance made to Granger. Correspondents include: Michael Sissons, of Peters, Fraser and Dunlop, Terry Coleman, Ion Trewin, Granger. Also incl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2002-2006
Extent:
1 file

3. Add MS 89150/1

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Correspondence and papers relating to the proposal and announcement of the commission to Derek Granger to write the authorised biography of Laurence Olivier. Indexed selectively. Includes: Granger’s typewritten draft of part of the prospectus for the biography. [1994] ‘Laurence Olivier: the life...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1994-2000
Extent:
1 file

4. Add MS 89150/5/3

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Draft word-processed text of chapter 1.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1997?
Extent:
1 file (45 leaves)

5. Add MS 89150/63

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Add MS 89150/63
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34 coloured photographs of Notley Abbey, a former home of Olivier, probably taken by Granger.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1998
Extent:
1 photograph album including 34 coloured photographs

6. Add MS 89150/6/4

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Add MS 89150/6/4
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30 coloured photographs of Dorking (including some of the house in which Olivier lived, bearing a commemorative plaque), and other locations, probably taken by Granger, who probably appears on one of the photographs of Dorking.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1998
Extent:
1 photograph album including 34 coloured photographs

7. Add MS 89150/6/1

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Add MS 89150/6/1
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Photocopies from books and press-cuttings on Olivier and his family and associated persons, those on Noel Coward, Christopher Fry, Sir Peter Hall, Vivien Leigh, Elspeth March, Sarah Miles and Richard Olivier being particularly identified by Granger. Not indexed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1957-2011
Extent:
1 file

8. Add MS 89150/5/1

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Add MS 89150/5/1
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Typewritten outlines of chapters of proposed biography and schedule, chronology of Olivier’s career, and list of characters of the musical ‘Cabaret’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1996
Extent:
1 file

9. Add MS 89150/6/2

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Add MS 89150/6/2
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Scope & Content:
Press-cuttings on the Olivier archive now in the British Library (Add MS 79766-80750) and on Granger’s commission to write the official biography of Olivier based on the archive.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1994-2000
Extent:
1 file

10. Add MS 89150/3/2

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1940s theatre
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File includes: Correspondence between Max Gordon, Garson Kanin and Olivier relating to acting in Kanin’s ‘Born Yesterday’. 1946.Correspondence between Olivier, Isabel and Thornton Wilder, Anthony Hodgetts and Hugh Beaumont relating to acting in Wilder’s ‘The Skin of our teeth’. 1945-1946.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1996-2000
Extent:
1 file