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Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most legendary and revered actors of the 20th century. He married three times, to actresses Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright. Player Spencer Tracy said that Olivier was 'the greatest player in the English-speaking world'.

Olivier played a wide variety of roles on stage and screen from Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and Restoration comedy to contemporary American and British drama. He was the first skilled director of the National Theatre of Great Britain and its main stage is named in his honour. He is regarded by some to be the greatest thespian of the 20th century, in the same category as David Garrick, Richard Burbage, Edmund Kean and Henry Irving in their possess centuries. Olivier's AMPAS acknowledgments are considerable: twelve Oscar nominations, with two awards (for Best Performer and Best Picture for the 1948 film Hamlet), plus two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received. Additionally, he was a three-time Golden Globe and BAFTA winner.

Laurence Olivier' Homosexual Being Confirmed

Larry, we hardly know you!

It isn't easy to locate a real gentleman behind the many masks. Olivier was every inch an actor, onstage and off. His third wife, Joan Plowright, remarked: "Larry? Oh, he's acting all the time." Ken Tynan, Olivier's literary manager at the National Theatre, once told novelist Terry Southern: "Now what you've got to realize about Olivier is that he's like a blank page and he'll be whatever you want him to be."

Anthony Holden, who produced a dignified, standard biography 17 years ago, claimed that Olivier's being was "one prolonged disappearing trick."

Now, Terry Coleman book, creature an "authorized" biography, his book cannot delve freely into areas that Olivier's family deems forbidden. Accordingly, the issue of the actor's possible bisexuality gets a tastefully gentle treatment, despite the use of some explicit letters from Henry Ainley, a handsome actor, who referred to Olivier as "Larry Kin Mine," and signed himself, "Your lovely little kitten, Henrietta."

Olivier once said of his acting: "Every member of the audience should yearn to fuck you." Coleman doesn't even consider the implications of such a sentence. He writes

As of late, there has been much debate/discussion on the Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier Facebook page regarding Laurence Olivier’s sexual orientation. There have been many rumors about both Larry and Vivien for as long as anyone can remember. Just recently a book called Damn You, Scarlett O’Hara was published that’s overflowing with them. But the main rumor that’s pervaded the scene since Donald Spoto published his biography of Laurence Olivier is that Larry was pansexual. The subject of sex and famous people’s sex lives is the hot ticket, especially in this day and age. I don’t focus on this topic here at vivandlarry.com very often, if at all, but since it keeps popping up elsewhere, and since it was pointed out yesterday that I “have virtually ignored [the subject] in my research as hearsay”, I decided it might be foremost to just put my two cents here, and simply allude people to it when asked so as not to own to keep repeating myself in long-winded arguments.

Why I don’t emphasize on Laurence Olivier’s sexual orientation:

I don’t care if he was straight/gay/bisexual/queer/asexual/fill in the blank. It doesn

Laurence Olivier’s son Tarquin witnessed the passion–and disintegration–of his father’s marriage to the incomparable Vivien Leigh. The child of Olivier’s first marriage, to the actress Jill Esmond, Tarquin nevertheless became very close to his stepmother, Vivien, and she in turn wrote to him frequently. Her letters, and many others by Olivier to Tarquin, go on sale at Sotheby’s on July 13. Here, Tarquin tells Wendy Leigh about his stimulating childhood with two of the world’s most fabulous stars…
by Wendy Leighs
Weekend, June 24, 2000
For 20 glittering years, Britain and the world were mesmerized by the spectacle of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, the most romantic couple in the universe. She was alluring, coquettish, and heart-stoppingly beautiful. He was a consummate actor, radiating a darkly disturbing sexuality that captured her the moment she first establish eyes upon him.
The year was 1936, and Vivien Leigh was a stage actress, married to a barrister and the mother of a small daughter. Olivier was a stage star, married to the distinguished actress Jill Esmond. Yet when Vivien saw Olivier on stage all thoughts of their respecti