He met Hermione Baddeley, an established actress, when they were cast in the film “There is another sun” in 1950. She became his “live-in” partner and a lucky charm for his career. She introduced him to Basil Dean and his first part on the London stage in “Hassan”, followed by a season at Stratford in 1952 with Glen Byam Shaw. Most significantly, she introduced him to James Woolf, of Romulus Films. He became his mentor, manager and lover, over the next 14 years. He made Laurence Harvey a star. Harvey left Baddeley in 1952 for actress Margaret Leighton, who was then married to publisher Max Reinhardt. Leighton and Reinhardt divorced in 1955, and she married Harvey in 1957 off the Rock of Gibraltar. The couple divorced in 1961.