Laurence Olivier gay affairs confirmed, denied in new book
Terry Coleman's new authorized biography of Sir Laurence Olivier, appropriately titled "Olivier," delves lightly into letters sent to the actor that seem to dismantle the contention made in Donald Spoto's biography that Olivier had a long-term passionate gay relationship with Danny Kaye, while putting forward a new proposition that Olivier had an affair with Henry Ainley, an actor twice his age who was married with a son. Ainley's letters certainly aren't butch either.
One reads: "How are you? I have been tossing (now now) about at night thinking of you...Yes I am a Psod. And what is more, so are you...Your sweet little kitten, Henrietta." Coleman declines to quote from the "more explicit" letters, which is a shame, providing they actually exist. The Independent's Review says that when it comes to his personal life, the book "leaves you with a sense of anti-climax."
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