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[footnote 5] He deserted and divorced his first wife, the actress Vivien Merchant, and their son Daniel (who later disowned him) [footnote 6] in order (eventually) to marry the second (his widow, the biographer Antonia Fraser), having had, on the way, ...
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Bakewell had a nine-year affair with the playwright Harold Pinter, who died last Christmas, while she was married to the producer Michael Bakewell and Pinter was married to the actress Vivien Merchant. Pinter's play Betrayal was based on their affair. ...
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The other brother, Teddy (Michael Jayston), is a philosophy professor in America who pops up unexpectedly in the middle of the night with his wife Ruth (Vivien Merchant) in tow. Teddy probably would've been better off bringing Ruth into a den of wild ...
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Critics and biographers have long linked the play to the break up of Pinter's first marriage, to Vivien Merchant, precipitated by his affair with the woman who became his second wife, writer-historian Antonia Fraser. Biographical resonance aside ...
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For seven years in the Sixties, Joan and Harold had a scorching affair while she was still married to TV producer Michael Bakewell and he was married to the actress Vivien Merchant. Their clandestine relationship became the basis for Betrayal, ...
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