OLIVIER Laurence - Programme Signed 1962 for Semi-Detached Autograph Type_Cut Signatures

OLIVIER Laurence - Programme Signed 1962 for Semi-Detached Autograph Type_Cut SignaturesLaurence OLIVIER (1907 1989) Programme Signed (L Olivier), signed across an advertisement for Digestive Biscuits, opposite the title page of the programme for David Turners Semi Detached, directed by Tony Richardson at the Saville Theatre in 1962 with Olivier in the starring role. In all, 16pp., London, 1962. Turners Semi Detached, which appears to be largely forgotten today, had its premiere earlier that year in Coventry with Leonard Rossiter in the

Sir John GIELGUD (1904-2000)

The pamphlet includes a number of illustrations of events in the Marshal’s life

and the mark of the red wax seal is visible at the bottom of the address leaf

Varda is perhaps the artist Jean Varda

13pp 4to in French

Have the pictures sent

the position of a straightforward Radical is very hard with all the Georgite [a reference to David Lloyd George] press against him & our own press not very definitely supporting him

who met her death before a German firing squad in 1915

Edouard MORTIER

of interesting you in his favour

Together with the typed envelope

Spike Milligan struggled for much of his life with mental health problems and depression