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Sir John Gielgud was considered one of the greatest stage actors of the 1950s, famous for his portrayal of Hamlet and comic roles such as the lead in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. However, before being knighted in 1953, he was looked into for his “notorious” private life as a gay man duringContinue reading “Before Sir John Gielgud Was Knighted, Whitehall Probed His ‘Notorious’ Gay Life”