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LARRY GAY? OF URSE HE WAS
So diverted was the mischievo Emlyn by the mours of the homosexual, sado-masochistic adventur of a third great actor, Sir Michael Redgrave, that Williams once acsted him on Waterloo Bridge wh the words, "Michael Redgrave, I'll be bound!
Dame Joan, herself an acclaimed actrs, who was married to Olivier for 28 years, rpond lmly to Lawley's referenc to allegatns of homosexual liaisons the great actor's life. The most timate iend of his youth was the actor Denys Blakelock, also the son of a clergyman, who was homosexual. Olivier had met not only the fele, green-eyed, 22-year-old actrs and bety Vivien Leigh, who was to be his nemis, but also his most unlikely homosexual partner, Henry Aley.
Both men were officially "straight", yet they formed an tense and passnate relatnship which - whether or not beme physil - was certaly homo-erotic style and ntent. As Larry's marriage to Vivien reached s fal oblivn, Olivier was performg, Spartac, the most notor gay scene Hollywood had yet filmed.
OLIVIER HAD 'DEMONS', SAYS WIDOW ANSWERG GAY QUTN
After Lord Olivier's ath on July 11, 1989, aged 82, om nromcular disease and ncer, and his terment Poet's Corner, Wtmster Abbey, his official bgrapher, Terry Coleman, asked Plowright if he had had homosexual affairs.