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Feb 10, 2008 · Curtain rises on Gielgud's gay scandal. Critic's play shows how the famous actor's arrest was part of the 1950s homosexual witch-hunts. Vanessa Thorpe, arts and media correspondent. Sat 9 Feb 2008 ...
Jan 31, 2011 · It was the most controversial incident of Sir John Gielgud's life, when the great actor was caught giving the glad eye to an undercover policeman in a public lavatory. ... Gielgud was arrested at ...
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Feb 28, 2008 · John Gielgud's arrest for cottaging in 1953 sparked public outrage and, for the actor, private agony. A new play tells the story of the scandal. The most terrible moment in John Gielgud's life ...
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH ( / ˈɡiːlɡʊd /; 14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trinity of actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century. A member of the Terry family theatrical ...
Feb 15, 2010 · My informant's father had been a BBC chauffeur in the early 1950s. One evening – it would have been just a few months before Gielgud's Chelsea arrest in 1953 – this chauffeur delivered a ...
Plague Over England is a play written by Nicholas de Jongh, based on a real-life incident when actor John Gielgud was arrested for lewd behavior in 1953; it provides an insight into the changes in the lives of gay people over the last fifty years. It received universally positive reviews when it received its world premiere at the Finborough ...
Feb 24, 2009 · Jumping-off point is the true story of actor John Gielgud’s humiliating arrest in 1953 for soliciting gay sex in a London public toilet — or in the quaint parlance of gay Brits of a certain ...
