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Laurence Oliver ArchiveAdd MS 79766-80750

A. Personal Papers.Add MS 79766-79894

B. Professional Papers (Miscellaneous).Add MS 79895-79973

C. Plays.Add MS 79974-80406

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCIX (ff. ). Early acting and production papers, 1 ... Add MS 79974

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCX (ff. ). .Add MS 79975

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCXI (ff. ). Correspondence of Olivier as co-direct ... Add MS 79976

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCXII (ff. ).Add MS 79977

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCXIII-CCXV. Papers and correspondence relating to the Old Vic tour of Australia with The school for scandal, The skin of our teeth, and Richard III, with later correspondence arising from business and social aspects of the tour; 1947-1968.Add MS 79978-79980

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCXVI (ff. ). .Add MS 79981

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCXVII (ff. ). Minutes of meetings and memoranda of ... Add MS 79982

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCXVIII (ff. ). Financial returns and estimates of ... Add MS 79983

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCXIX (ff. ). “The Old Vic Theatre Company, May 6th ... Add MS 79984

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCXX-CCXXI. Texts of plays performed by the Old Vic Company: The school for scandal, produced at the New Theatre; 1949.Add MS 79985-79986

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCXXII-CCXXXIX. General administrative, legal, and financial papers, mostly the correspondence of Cecil Tennant , the managing director of Laurence Olivier Productions, which was continued, with Telescope Films Ltd., as L.O.P. Ltd. on the voluntary liquidation of Laurence Olivier Productions in 1956; 1946-1972.Add MS 79987-80004

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCXL-CCXLIV. Contracts for outside work for directors and personnel retained by Laurence Olivier Productions; 1946-1974. For outside contracts undertaken by Olivier as actor or producer, see the papers for the play or company concerned. For outside contracts undertaken by Vivien Leigh, see the relevant section of Vivien Leigh’s papers.Add MS 80005-80009

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCXLV-CCXLVII. Correspondence relating to theatres (and their staff) owned or used by Laurence Olivier Productions.Add MS 80010-80012

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCXLVIII-CCXLIX. Correspondence and contracts with related companies; 1948-1980.Add MS 80013-80014

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCL-CCLI. Correspondence with other institutions; 1946-1954.Add MS 80015-80016

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCLII-CCLIV. Telegrams and copies of telegrams sent and received by Laurence Olivier Productions, mostly by Lovat Fraser, General Manager; 1949-1955. The present arrangement preserves the arrangement made by the Laurence Olivier Productions office staff; the contents relate to a number of productions but the exact one is not always identifiable.Add MS 80017-80019

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCLV-CCCXXX. Individual productions by Laurence Olivier Productions for itself, or for other managements, and productions by others housed or managed by Laurence Olivier Productions.Add MS 80020-80095

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCLV (ff. ). The skin of our teeth, by Thornton Wil ... Add MS 80020

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCLVI-CCLIX. Born yesterday, by Garson Kanin; 1946-1947. Produced by Olivier; first performed at the Garrick, 23 January 1947.Add MS 80021-80024

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCLX A, B. The Damascus blade (earlier title London Irish), by Bridget Boland; 1949-1952. First performance, Theatre Royal, Newcastle-on-Tyne; 13 March 1949.Add MS 80025 A-B

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCLXI-CCLXV. Daphne Laureola, by James Bridie; 1948-1953. First performance, Wyndham’s, 23 March 1949.Add MS 80026-80030

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCLXVI-CCLXVIII. Fading mansion, adapted by Donagh MacDonagh from Romeo et Jeanette by Jean Anouilh; 1947-1954. First performance at the Duchess, 31 August 1949.Add MS 80031-80033

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCLXIX (ff. ). A streetcar named desire, by Tenness ... Add MS 80034

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCLXX-CCLXXIV. Venus observed, by Christopher Fry; 1949-1954. Produced by Olivier, and starring Olivier as the Duke of Altair. First performance at the St. James’s; 18 January 1950.Add MS 80035-80039

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCLXXV-CCLXXVII. Captain Carvallo, by Denis Cannan; 1949-1954. First performance at Brighton, 5 June 1950 and in London at the St James’s, 9 August 1950.Add MS 80040-80042

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCLXXVIII-CCLXXIX. Top of the ladder, by Tyrone Guthrie; 1950-1952. First performance at the St James’s; 11 October 1950.Add MS 80043-80044

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCLXXX (ff. ).Add MS 80045

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCLXXXI-CCLXXXIII. The consul, opera by Gian-Carlo Menotti; 1951-1952. First performance at the Cambridge Theatre, 7 February 1951.Add MS 80046-80048

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Olivier Archive. Vols. CCLXXXIV-CCXCVII. Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare, and Caesar and Cleopatra, by G. B. Shaw; 1950-1952. Produced by Olivier for Laurence Olivier Productions, for the Festival of Britain in 1951, and starring Olivier as Antony and Caesar, and Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra. The productions themselves were familiarly known as “the two Cleopatras”.Add MS 80049-80062

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCXCVIII (ff. ). Compagnie Madeleine Renaud, led by ... Add MS 80063

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCXCIX (ff. ). Othello, by William Shakespeare: 195 ... Add MS 80064

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCC (ff. ).Add MS 80065

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCI-CCCIII. The happy time, by Samuel Taylor; 1950-1953. First performance at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, 21 January 1952; and in London at the St James’s, 30 January 1952.Add MS 80066-80068

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCCIV (ff. ).Add MS 80069

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCV-CCCVI. Comédie Française season; 1952-1953. Season opened at the St James’s Theatre, 4 May 1953.Add MS 80070-80071

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCCVII (ff. ).Add MS 80072

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCVIII-CCCXI. Anastasia, by ‘Marcelle-Maurette’ (alias of the Countess de Becdelievre), adapted by Guy Bolton; 1953-1962. First performance at the Theatre Royal, Windsor; 1953, and in London at the St James’s, 5 August 1953.Add MS 80073-80076

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCCXII (ff. ). The sleeping prince, by Terence Ratt ... Add MS 80077

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCXIII-CCCXV. Waiting for Gillian (previous title “The crossroads”), by Ronald Millar; adapted from Nigel Balchin’s novel A way through the wood; 1953-1960. First performed at the Opera House, Manchester; 12 April 1954, and in London at the St James’s, 21 April 1954.Add MS 80078-80080

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCXVI-CCCXVIII. Meet a body (previous titles “The green man” and “The body was well nourished”), by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat; 1950-1957. First performed at the New Theatre, Oxford, 28 June 1954, and in London at the Duke of York’s, 20 July 1954Add MS 80081-80083

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCCXIX (ff. ).Add MS 80084

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCCXX (ff. ).Add MS 80085

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCCXXI (ff. ). Double image, by Ted Allan and Roger ... Add MS 80086

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCCXXII (ff. ). The entertainer, by John Osborne; 1 ... Add MS 80087

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCXXIII-CCCXXIV. Summer of the seventeenth doll, by Ray Lawler; 1956-1960. A St James’s Players production, with cast from the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust first performed at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, 8 April 1957, and in London at the New Theatre, 30 April 1957, and subsequently on tour to New York.Add MS 80088-80089

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCCXXV (ff. ).Add MS 80090

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCXXVI-CCCXXVIII. One more river, by Beverley Cross. First performed at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle; 14 September 1959, and in London at the Duke of York’s, 6 October 1959. Production accounts and invoices only.Add MS 80091-80093

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCXXIX-CCCXXX. A lodging for a bride, by Patrick Kirwan; 1959-1960. First performed at the Gaiety, Dublin, February 1960, and in London at the Westminster; 18 April 1960.Add MS 80094-80095

Olivier Archive. Vol. CCCXXXI (ff. ). Papers relating to plays, films and ... Add MS 80096

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCXXXII-CCCXXXVIII. Papers relating to plays not produced.Add MS 80097-80103

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCXXXIX-CCCLXVIII. Stage plays and proposals for stage adaptations submitted to Laurence Olivier Productions.Add MS 80104-80133

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCLXIX-CCCLXXXIX. Casting papers, mostly correspondence and notes of Lovat Fraser, Laurence Olivier Productions’ general manager.Add MS 80134-80154

Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCXC-DXXV. Individual productions.Add MS 80155-80290

papers relating to ‘contract’ plays, those in which olivier acted or directed for other managements on contract from l.o.p. ltd.Add MS 80291-80298

Papers for productions at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford.Add MS 80299-80302

Papers for Olivier as Director of the Chichester Festival Theatre.Add MS 80303-80317

Olivier Archive. Vols. DLIII-DXCIII. Policies and direction of the National Theatre.Add MS 80318-80358

Olivier Archive. Vols. DXCIV-DCI. Papers and correspondence of chief persons involved with the National Theatre.Add MS 80359-80366

Olivier Archive. Vols. DCII-DCDCVI. Papers on outside relations of the National Theatre.Add MS 80367-80371

Olivier Archive. Vols. DCVII-DCXXIII. Papers on the management of the National Theatre.Add MS 80372-80388

Olivier Archive. Vols. DCXXIV-DCXCIV. Correspondence relating to actors and productions.Add MS 80389-80459

Olivier Archive. Vol. DCXCV (ff. ). Correspondence and papers relating to ... Add MS 80460

D. Films.Add MS 80461-80546

E. Radio & television broadcasts, and sound recordings.Add MS 80548-80572

F. Readings, speeches & addresses, and other single appearances.Add MS 80573-80577

G. Books and articles.Add MS 80578-80598

H. Olivier Collections.Add MS 80599-80611

I. Artifacts.Add MS 80612-80617

J. Vivian Leigh papers.Add MS 80618-80652

K. Posters and programes.Add MS 80653-80663

L. Cuttings.Add MS 80664-80693

M. Photographs.Add MS 80694-80736

N. Books from Olivier's library. Olivier Archive. Vols. CMLXXII-CMLXXXV. Books formerly part of Olivier’s library. All printed.Add MS 80737-80750