id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2352 Alec Guinness - Wikipedia .html text/html 10208 1028 79 Also in 1936, Guinness signed on with the Old Vic, where he was cast in a series of classic roles.[10] In the later 1930s, he took classes at the London Theatre Studio.[11] In 1939, he took over for Michael Redgrave as Charleston in a road-show production of Robert Ardrey's Thunder Rock.[12] At the Old Vic, Guinness worked with many actors and actresses who would become his friends and frequent co-stars in the future, including Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Anthony Quayle, and Jack Hawkins. Piers Paul Read, in his 2005 biography, suggests "The rumour is possibly a conflation of stories about Alec's 'cottaging' and the arrest of John Gielgud, in October 1953, in a public lavatory in Chelsea after dining with the Guinnesses at St. Peter's Square."[52] This suggestion was not made until April 2001, eight months after his death, when a BBC Showbiz article related that new books claimed that Guinness was bisexual and that he had kept his sexuality private from the public eye and that the biography further said only his closest friends and family members knew he had sexual relationships with men.[53] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2352.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2352.txt