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OLIVIER LAURENCE: (1907-1989) English actor, Academy Award winner. A good A.L.S., Larry, four pages,... - OLIVIER LAURENCE: (1907-1989) English actor, Academy Award winner. A good A.L.S., Larry , four pages, 8vo, Brighton, Sussex, ' Mon. 5 th or 4 th or something Sept' n.y. (1966), to 'Darling Angel Girl' (Madeline Sherwood). Olivier thanks his correspondent for their angelic letter and clipping and continues 'Joanie is making a v slow, but thank God sure recovery. The little one acts like it had had Joanie, if you know what I mean & had thought but nothing of it. Actually it was quite a tussle pulling the little thing through. But she's marvellous now, & as I say Joanie is really beginning to perk up, so all on that old horizon begins to take on a shiny sweet glow again. The little one had to be called Julia, on account of (after three days of labour) having to be a Caesarean - a built of a built in joke that I suppose (like on the inside of Doug Fairbanks Jnr's lavatory seats) but what can you think of when you're trying to run a National (classical) Theatre?' . Olivier further thanks Sherwood for her news regarding Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon and expresses his disappointment that they won't be travelling to England ( 'there's nothing like a European visit that a good script at home won't cure' ) and also writes 'Darling One. I wish I could tell you how much I love to hear from you. I get so boiled up in this job, my brain feels fried most of the time (lot of culinary analogues but you know what I mean) even if I don't write back much, it really does do me good to hear from you my love, it truly does. My loving homage to the Olympians - me I'm only a Spartan - if that' . A letter of unusually personal content. VG   Madeline Hurlock (1897-1989) American silent film actress, the second wife of Robert Sherwood (1896-1955) American playwright and screenwriter.   Joan Plowright (1929-     ) English actress, the third wife of Laurence Olivier. The couple had three children together, the youngest being the actress Julie-Kate, who was born in July 1966.   From 1963 to 1973 Olivier was the founding director of Britain's National Theatre, running a resident company that fostered many future stars.