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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier OM (/ ˈ l ɒr ə n s ˈ k ɜːr ə ˈ l ɪ v i eɪ / LORR-ənss KUR ə-LIV-ee-ay; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director.He and his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud made up a trio of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.
Joan Ann Plowright, Baroness Olivier [1] (born 28 October 1929), professionally known as Dame Joan Plowright, is an English retired actress whose career spanned over six decades. She has won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award and has been nominated for an Academy Award , an Emmy and two BAFTA Awards .
Suzanne Farrington (née Holman; 12 October 1933 – 1 March 2015) was the only child of British actress Vivien Leigh and her first husband, Herbert Leigh Holman. Upon her mother's death, Farrington was bequeathed her mother's papers, including her letters, photographs, contracts and diaries.
A quarter-century since she had first glimpsed Laurence Olivier, when she was just 20 years old and he six years older, their marriage was on the brink of collapse. ... with a child, and so was he ...
Together they had two children. Their marriage lasted until Key's death from cancer in July 1992. His third marriage is to American-British actress Zoë Wanamaker, to whom he has been married since November 1994. [6] Grainger was a close friend of Laurence Olivier and his family, and helped the actor write his second book On Acting (1986). [7]
The public will soon get a deeper look into one of Hollywood's most infamous love affairs. In 1936, sparks flew between Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh while playing lovers in "Fire Over England."
Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights (1939) She was selected to star in Korda's 1937 film, I, Claudius, as Messalina, but her injuries in a car crash resulted in the film being abandoned. [21] [22] [Note 1] While in England she co-starred against Laurence Olivier in the Korda comedy The Divorce of Lady X (1938).
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