The great Rex Harrison born in Huyton, Merseyside on 5 March in 1980. He died in New York City at 82 on 2 June 1990.
He had great success in the theatre on both sides of the Atlantic, including two Tony award wins - as Henry VIII in Anne of the Thousand Days (1949) and as Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (1957).
His film career included Storm in a Teacup (1936), with Vivien Leigh; Major Barbara (1941), with Wendy Hiller; Blithe Spirit (1945), with Constance Cummings; Anna and the King of Siam (1946), with Irene Dunne; The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947), with Gene Tierney; Cleopatra (1963), with Elixabeth Taylor; My Fair Lady (1964), with Audrey Hepburn, winning an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, and Doctor Dolittle (1967), with Samantha Eggar, winning a Golden Globe.
He was knighted in 1989.
In 1988, two years before his death, he was back in London's West End at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in The Admirable Crichton, starring alongside Edward Fox and Martin Clunes.
I sent him a fan letter and a request for an autograph. He kindly sent this:
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