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b/w postcard, 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Paper remnants at the corner of the flip side, otherwise fine condition.
The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, (1907 –1989) was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered British actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries Sir John Gielgud, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Sir Ralph Richardson. He married Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh and Joan Plowright.
His breakthrough came in Noel Coward's Private Lives (1930), and in Romeo and Juliet (1935). He gained international movie stardom and the first of 10 Academy Award nominations for his portrayal of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (1939).
He followed this with popular romantic leads in Rebecca and Pride and Prejudice (both 1940), Henry V (1944), for which he received a special Oscar. Hamlet (1948) which won Oscars for best actor and best picture. Richard 111(1955) and Othello, (1965).
Olivier was knighted in 1947, and in 1970 he was elevated to a life peerage, the first of his profession to be so honoured.
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