Henry Ainley Shakespeare Actor Laurence Olivier Lover Hand Signed Photo

PFAS106  Antique signed photo postcard for Shakespeare early actor Henry Ainley (21 August 1879 31 October 1945) who had an amazing career which you can fully research.  He was considered one of the greatest actors of his time. Fifteen letters in the possession of Laurence Olivier's widow Joan Plowright suggest that Ainley may have had a sexual relationship with the younger actor in the late 1930s. The letters said by Olivier's biographer Terry Coleman to be explicitly homosexual in content suggest that Ainley was infatuated with Olivier, even if, as some members of Olivier's family insist, notably the actor's son Tarquin Olivier, the feeling was not reciprocated. He has personally signed the souvenir where his signature rests perfectly accompanying his portrait - has upper left corner indent - one light mild other place - otherwise very good indeed (mostly great allowing) graded vg overall - reverse dates the signing as October 1913.