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Michael Redgrave was a great actor in an age of great acting. His contemporaries were Edith Evans and Laurence Olivier, Peggy Ashcroft and John Gielgud, Alec Guinness and Ralph Richardson. He shared seasons with them at the Old Vic, Stratford and the National Theatre. More than all his contemporaries except…
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Michael Redgrave was a great actor who succeeded both in the classical theatre and as a popular film star. His son Corin, himself an actor, has written a deeply felt, tender, and sympathetic book about his father.
He is perceptive about his father's subtle skill as an actor and the basis of his lifelong socialism. But he struggled to understand his personal life, which was complicated by his bisexuality: although married for fifty years to the actress Rachel Kempson, he indulged in a series of affairs with men.
In later years, his acting career was cruelly cut short when he…
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