Snakes and Ladders [antikvár]

A Note on the Sources My principal sources have been my notebooks, diaries and letters written to my parents, during the period 1941-1947. I have also drawn on a daily journal which I have kept from 1950 to the present day, as well as scrap-books, many personal letters, and in particular a collection of about 650 letters written between 1965 and 1973 to a friend in America and which were returned to me in accordance with her will after her death. The Films of Dirk Bogarde by Margaret Hinxman and Susan d'Arcy (Literary Services and Production, 1974) has also been invaluable. Acknowledgments I am indebted, first and foremost, to George Courtney Ward who was my personal photographer at Rank for many years. Also to Mario Tursi, for allowing me to reproduce his stills from 'Death in Venice', and to the owners of individual photographs, by whose courtesy I have reproduced many of the pictures. My gratitude to E. L. L. Forwood for taking on the Index with such care and patience, and also to S0ren Fischer who traced and secured the scene written for Judy Garland. I am grateful to Miss Rosahnd Toland who has waded through years of newspapers in search of information and headhnes etcetera; and above all to Mrs Sally Betts, who once again, has managed to cope with my incomprehensible typescript, spelling and punctuation. In order to save any embarrassment I have, very occasionally, used pseudonyms.