London has always been the capital of culture in Britain. But during the fifties and sixties, there was a concerted move by actors to move to the Sussex coast.
It was started and largely led by Laurence Olivier. Olivier decamped to Brighton after marrying his third wife, Joan Plowright, in 1961. The tabloids were waiting for him and he made headline news.
Olivier had hoped, far away from Fleet Street, to escape from unwelcome press attention – and that there
