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When Orson met Larry: 'Welles was a very bad boy. But he was a great artist' by Ryan Gilbey

It was a clash of two massive egos. As Orson's Shadow makes its European premiere, its playwright Austin Pendleton about how he turned Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier's famous theatrical fall out into a playIn 1960, Orson Welles directed Laurence Olivier in a stage production of Eugène Ionesco's Rhinoceros. Also in the cast was Olivier's future wife, Joan Plowright, for whom he was about to leave Vivien Leig…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:31AM on July 1, 2015

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