The European Bogarde

By the end of the decade, Bogarde realized that he had little future with studios and casting directors in England. Once he began working with ‘forward-looking directors like Dearden, Losey, Schlesinger and Clayton’, his matinée-idol public faded away along with box office receipts. This profoundly private man’s prior history of not playing the studio game but preferring instead seclusion now made it easy for studios to reject or ignore him. With no work that he cared to do, he went where he was wanted. Abroad. But it also meant packing up and leaving England.