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Rex Harrison: “That appalling human being.” When Harrison died on June 2, 1990, he was still regarded by the public as the epitome of the suave English gentleman. Yet those who worked with the actor, or came across him, described him as an “utter s…t.” While he was performing in “My Fair Lady” on Broadway, an elderly autograph-hunter approached him at the stage door. When the actor told her to “s…..d off", she whacked him repeatedly with her programme. Harrison's co-star Stanley Holloway quipped that it was a classic case of the "fan hitting the sh…t.” One of his five wives simply screamed at him: "You've no idea how people hate you! They haaate you!" Harrison was relentlessly rude throughout his entire life. During World War II, while dining in a Nottingham hotel, he complained vociferously about the fish (despite national food shortages). When the maître'd appeared, he threw his plate across the room and shouted obscene abuse, only to be struck around the face and thrown out, to the delight of his then spouse Lili Palmer. Maureen O'Hara, his co-star in “The Foxes of Harrow” (1947), described him as "rude, vulgar and arrogant”, while Noel Coward commented drily, “when you realise that his real name is Reg, that tells you everything”. In 1947 came the Carole Landis scandal. The beautiful blonde actress began a high-profile affair with Harrison, who, at the time, was married to Palmer. On July 4, 1948, Harrison and Landis spent the evening at her Pacific Palisades home, during the course of which the actor told her he would not be getting a divorce. The next afternoon, Harrison and Carole’s maid discovered the 29-year-old dead on her bathroom floor, from a deliberate overdose. A massive scandal ensued when it was revealed that Harrison waited several hours before contacting the police or a doctor, while he searched for a private physician to protect his reputation. Rumours persisted that Landis left behind two suicide notes: one for her mother, and a second, highly incriminating note addressed to Harrison. Harrison instructed his lawyers to destroy it and later denied its existence at the inquest. Following adverse media coverage, Fox ended his contract, forcing him to retreat to Broadway and European cinema before his eventual return in “Cleopatra” (1963) and “My Fair Lady” (1964). His exile from Hollywood did not improve his manners or his character. On the set of “Cleopatra” he avoided Elizabeth Taylor but directed his spleen at everyone else. Roddy McDowell, who played Octavian, said, “You always had to approach him with a fire-hose. He was an impeccable performer but unconscionable to his fellow actors." The usually laid back Patrick Macnee ranked him as "one of the top five most unpleasant men you've ever met”, while Stewart Granger was so incensed by one encounter that he grasped Harrison by the throat and threatened to "break his f…ing leg”. Both on stage and on screen in “My Fair Lady”, he was up to his usual tricks. Andre Previn, the musical director of the movie, later said: "He felt whatever fuss was made about Audrey or Julie was pointless, because nobody was interested in the girl. They were only interested in him. Harrison – and I don’t say this lightly – was the most appalling human being I ever worked with.” Below, Harrison and the tragic Carole Landis.