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On 12 July 1989, one of the best actors of his generation is reflected in his diary about the death of another. If Sir Alec Guinness thoughtswords praise for Sir Laurence Olivier were extracted as promoters of Theatre Critics usually made with "write-ups, could be interpreted as a rave review.

The full text is first revealed in the personal archive of actor recently acquired by the British Library, tells a different story. In his small script spotlessly clean, Guinness Olivier wrote: "I admired his extraordinary courage ... as an actor was excellent ... technically brilliant ... he was a great actor."

But he also wrote: .. "Like many people whose ambition leads to great eminence, was a series of more cruel and destructive to their generosity could be unpleasant or even vindictive Consciously or not, he tries to destroy John G [Gielgud], [Michael] Redgrave, [Paul] Scofield and if I had the chance, I would. "

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Knights meet again in the library. The vaults also keep files of Olivier, Gielgud, and an actor who writes affectionately simple Guinness, Ralph Richardson.

Guinness and Olivier were near contemporaries, born respectively in 1907 and 1914, and met constantly on stage and elsewhere for more than half a century.

Guinness, said: "There was a hint of pretension him, and his public speeches were shocking and horrible that I met in 1935, Romeo and Juliet all thought he had air and acted as the leader .. a dance band. But her Romeo was arrested and the beauty of its Mercutio was vulgar and gadgets. "

This production was made famous by the fact that Gielgud and Olivier opened as Romeo and Mercutio, respectively, then reverse roles.

Guinness acknowledged: "Many of us were too ... admirer of John the qualities of Larry with the law." But he added a line to remind sarcastic: "The laughter that went round when he said, during a rehearsal think marriage procession George V ..." I had a wonderful view of the job. "

Guinness was unforgettable in a series of classic Ealing comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters, and for his long collaboration with director David Lean, even with the film The Bridge on the River Kwai in 1957, for which he won an Oscar.

His journals tend to have a little Pooterish, with detailed notes on time, your blood pressure and your finances. In 1983, buying sweaters gift for his son and grand-son, "Italian prices and beautiful, but evil, ? 170 and ? 125." Both diaries and letters reveal him as deeply superstitious.

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