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3 unusual facts about Robert Helpmann


Michael Benthall

As an undergraduate at Oxford University, Michael Benthall met Robert Helpmann, who had been fulfilling an invitation to dance at there.

Robert Helpmann

He was immediately drawn to the handsome and intelligent Michael Benthall, and the pair formed a relationship that was to last for 36 years until Benthall's death in 1974.

He also played the manservant in the stageplay Stardust, with Googie Withers and John McCallum.


Leslie Hurry

His first stage work was for a production of Hamlet for the Sadler's Wells Ballet in 1942, work commissioned by Robert Helpmann, who had seen his paintings in a London gallery.


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