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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition, 2nd Printing. BRAND NEW copy. A pentrating study of Lawrence (Kerr) Olivier, Baron Olivier of Brighton (1907 - 1989) written while the great English actor and director was still alive. Remembered for his outstanding Shakesperian roles, the films Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, Hamlet, and Richard III. The Olivier Theatre, part of the National Theatre, is name in his honor. This volume draws on Olivier's colleagues and friends to achieve an informed, affectionate, critical, laudatory, and sometimes contradictatory portrait of this great artist at work. Rich with anecdotes, the book reveals much about the impressive cast of those interviewed such as Noel Coward, Peter Cushing, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave, and Sybil Thorndike.…