Olivier by Philip Ziegler " review
Simon Callow on a brisk yet elegant chronicle of the Laurence Olivier phenomenonAnd still they come. Eight years after the authorised biography of Laurence Olivier by Terry Coleman, here is another, by the distinguished biographer of, among others, Edward VIII, Lord Mountbatten, and William IV. Why, one asks? Coleman's book was a very unsatisfactory affair, which may be answer in itself. But for whom has the present …