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...Rex left school for the stage, got an apprentice job at Liverpool's Repertory Theater. Far from providing "an easy chance to shine," the job meant a series of obscure challenges. In facing up to them, Rex slowly changed from a fairly backward boy to a rather forward young man. Almost from the start he found himself devastatingly attractive to girls-and they to him. Yet Rex was never a playboy who happened to act. Even in his teens he was an actor who liked to play. Said a fellow actor of those days: "Rex always had a most...
...weight on his toes, heels, or on the ball of his foot when he is turning and delivering a line." José Ferrer, then playing in The Silver Whistle, went to six matinees in a row, explaining: "I've been in this business a long time, and Rex Harrison is the only actor doing comedy that I can learn from." Noel Coward told him: "After me, you are the best light comedian in the world...
...tried to moderate his irritable perfectionism, which can result in his berating other actors. "Afterwards he's sorry, but no one is around then," she says. Harrison is equally harsh on himself, readily accepts criticism. "It's impossible to prick the man's bubble," says Lilli. "Rex doesn't have a bubble...
...Rex and Lilli have a son, Carey, who is now at a swank British prep school. "I want the boy to have the education I missed." says Rex. "Fortunately I didn't need one in the theater." Noel, his son by his first wife, was an Olympic skier, now plays the guitar as an entertainer in European nightclubs. In London. Harrison moves confidently at any level of society; his sister married David Maxwell Fyfe, who was Home Secretary, and is now Viscount Kilmuir, the present Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, and a member of the Tories' top command...
...Chum. There were more quarrels with Lilli, and trial separations. "Let's face it," Lilli says, "Englishmen don't like women, at least not in the way that Italians or Frenchmen like women. Englishmen don't ever really look at a woman. The greatest compliment Rex can pay me is to say that being with me is as good as being with a pal. He's a man's man, an Englishman...