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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. 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. Vols. DCXXIV-DCXXV. General papers on National Theatre plays, actors, and companies, including producers, casting, releases, contracts and auditions; 1963-197x.. Papers relating to individual actors are at Add. MSS 80394-80402. Papers discussing casting and listing multiple cast changes for a specific play and responses to party invitations and presents are with the papers for that play. Includes correspondence on and lists of dressing room allocations, although dressing room allocations for individual plays are with that play.Add MS 80389-80390

Vol. CDXXIV, 1963-197x.Add MS 80389

Vol. DCXXV, .Add MS 80390

Olivier Archive. Vol. DCXXVI (ff. ). Lists of plays performed at the Nati ... Add MS 80391

Olivier Archive. Vols. DCXXVII-DCXXVIII. Cast lists (with names of understudies) of plays performed at the National Theatre; 1964-1974. These papers have been kept in the chronological order in which they were almost certainly kept in Olivier’s files at the National Theatre. Some cast lists for individual productions have been kept with the papers for those productions.Add MS 80392-80393

Olivier Archive. Vols. DCXXIX-DCXXXVII. Papers relating to individual actors and actresses; 1963-1973. Includes correspondence with agents offering their clients’ services, speculative requests from actors, and approaches from the National Theatre to actors, as well as correspondence between National Theatre management (for the most part Olivier personally) with actors of the company. Papers discussing casting and listing multiple cast changes for a specific play are with the papers for that play, although papers relating to more than one actor, and not relating to a specific play are at Add. MSS 80389-80390. Arranged alphabetically by surname.Add MS 80394-80402

Olivier Archive. Vols. DCXXXVIII-DCLII. Papers relating to individual productions of the National Theatre on London stages; 1963-1987. Includes all aspects of each play, except requests for seats (Add. MSS 80382-80383), and most letters concerning single actors (Add. MSS 80394-80399). Also includes critical comment from members of the public and the media. The dates given are those of the first performance of the production in question.Add MS 80403-80417

Olivier Archive. Vols. DCLIII-DCLXI. Tours made by the National Theatre Company, and visits to the National Theatre by other companies; 1964-1973.Add MS 80418-80426

Olivier Archive. Vols. DCLXII-DCLXV. New plays suggested for production at the National Theatre, and/or starring Olivier or Joan Plowright, but rejected. Arranged by play title in alphabetical order. Includes some new plays already performed in other theatres and new translations of existing plays. Unspecified plays in order of writer at the end.Add MS 80427-80430

Olivier Archive. Vol. DCLXVI (ff. ).Add MS 80431

Olivier Archive. Vols. DCLXVII-DCLXXI. Rejected or unfulfilled proposals by the National Theatre management for the commissioning or production of plays at the National Theatre.Add MS 80432-80436

Olivier Archive. Vols. DCLXXII-DCXCI. Scripts of plays produced at the National Theatre; 1962-1973.Add MS 80437-80456

Olivier Archive. Vols. DCXCII-DCXCIII. Programmes, cast lists and souvenir booklets of National Theatre and Young Vic productions; 1972-1978.Add MS 80457-80458

Olivier Archive. Vol. DCXCIV (ff. ). Booklets, press cuttings and issues ... Add MS 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