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LAURENCE OLIVIER: A BIOGRAPHY. Donald Spoto. HarperCollins. 460 pages. $23. Not to put too fine a point on it, biographer Donald Spoto — who has given us scrupulously researched chronicles of… ...
The image that Laurence Olivier left behind to an awed and respectful public was almost Shakespearean in its grandeur. Actor, director, producer, knight of the realm and a member of England`s House… ...
Spoto traces Olivier’s epic insecurity and insatiable hunger for acclaim to the death of his adoring mother when he was 12 and the remoteness of his clergyman father.