Other famous names to play the parts on Broadway include Claire Bloom, John Neville, Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier.

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Laurence Tisch, and Wall Street great John Whitehead, who begged him to turn off the spigot of easy money and rock-bottom interest rates.

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Denmark Street, known as the British answer to Tin Pan Alley where musicians such as Jimi Hendrix, Elton John and the Rolling Stones once worked, is to be redeveloped by entrepreneur Laurence Kirschel with shops, restaurants and bars.

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John Ireland and I got into a talk about Scott Fitzgerald, and then in came Laurence Harvey, a wonderful British actor married to a glamorous older woman, Joan Cohn, widow of mogul Harry Cohn.

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