For most of his adult life, stage legend and Oscar-winning actor Laurence Olivier swam daily. “He really made it a commitment,” recalls his son Richard Olivier to Closer. “He would swim 30 lengths, ...

Three actors who have played Shakespeare's Othello, from left: Laurence Fishburne on film in 1995, Laurence Olivier in offensive blackface in 1965, James Earl Jones in 1981. (Hulton Archive / Getty ...

Vivien Leigh won Oscars for playing two of the most iconic Southern belles in American film: Scarlett O’Hara in 1939’s “Gone with the Wind” and Blanche DuBois in 1951’s “A Streetcar Named Desire.” 3 ...

Vivien Leigh is still celebrated today as Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara in 1939’s “Gone with the Wind”, but the actress may have initially believed the hit film was going to be a major disaster in ...

LONDON — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was ...

The annual event, which celebrates excellence in London and West End theatre, as well as opera, dance, and family shows, is ...

IN FEBRUARY 1940 Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh attended the 12th Academy Awards ceremony. Olivier was nominated as best actor for his performance as Heathcliff in “Wuthering Heights”; Leigh won ...

LONDON — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was ...

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