A page from an autograph album signed by actor Laurence Harvey, who's breakthrough to international stardom came in 1959 when he was cast by director Jack Clayton as the social climber Joe Lampton in Room at the Top. For his performance, Harvey received a BAFTA Award nomination and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. During the late 1950s and 1960s, Harvey appeared in several major films; BUtterfield 8 and John Wayne's epic The Alamo, released within a month of each other, Walk on the Wild Side with Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Fonda and Capucine, the film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Summer and Smoke (1961) with Geraldine Page, and Darling (1965) with Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde. In this period, he appeared as the brainwashed Raymond Shaw in The Manchurian Candidate, with Frank Sinatra, the role for which he is best remembered. Harvey played King Arthur in the 1964 London production of the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical Camelot, at Drury Lane. He became very good friends with Elizabeth Taylor and his Manchurian Candidate co-star Frank Sinatra, and was a member in good standing of high society, then dubbed "The Jet Set". A heavy smoker and drinker, Harvey died from stomach cancer at age of 45.