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
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.
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.
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.
Copied letters and other documents arranged by Granger by correspondent. Most of the letters are written to Olivier, with those from him being specified. A further sequence of letters, distinguished by Granger as 'Key correspondence' is at Add MS 89150/3/17-19.
Copied letters and other documents arranged by Granger and distinguished by him as 'Key correspondence'. Most of the letters are written to Olivier, with those from him being specified. A further sequence of letters, is at Add MS 89150/3/12-15.