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Laurence Olivier

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11 days ago

The catalogue of his movies is unrivalled, a roll call of some of the greatest Hollywood films ever made: The Godfather, To Kill A Mockingbird, M*A*S*H, The Conversation, True Grit.

17 days ago

With an art deco cinema room, a wrap-around rosewood drinks bar and a sweeping staircase, the house on Marine Parade, Brighton, resembles a time capsule from the golden age of Hollywood.

3 months ago

He played china mugs, bells, rattles and car horns for everyone from Alfred Hitchcock to Benjamin Britten – and once got Laurence Olivier to bang a broomstick. We go behind the scenes of a Radio 3 ce…

‘I knew I needed help. I knew it was over’: Anthony Hopkins on alcoholism, anger, Academy Awards – and 50 years of sobriety ⊕⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

As the actor approaches his 90th year and publishes an autobiography, he reflects on his early years on stage, being inspired by Laurence Olivier, becoming a Hollywood star and conquering his demons

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4 months ago

That’s me in the £45m Hockney! The man in the masterpiece relives sitting for David back in the heady LA party days ⊕⊕

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It was a landmark moment in queer art, painted when homosexuality was illegal in California. As this famous painting of Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy goes under the hammer, the surviving sit…

12 months ago

When Thatcher took performance lessons from Laurence Olivier, it changed the course of her political destiny | Tim Walker ○

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The PM’s makeover collaboration was kept a closely guarded secret for fear it would hurt her ‘ordinary housewife’ image

  • Tim Walker is a writer and broadcaster. When Maggie Met Larry is on Radio 4 at 3…

After 50 years, can’t we shut down this cult of Margaret Thatcher? Just look at the mess she made of Britain | Polly Toynbee ○

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A whole slew of dramas and plays mark half a century since her election as Tory leader. But there is too much gloss, when so many people are still suffering

Now she’s an opera. Yet another myth-making…

13 months ago

‘She would have been in awe of him’: how Laurence Olivier gave Margaret Thatcher private seduction lessons ○

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New drama, When Maggie Met Larry, reveals exactly how the world’s most famous actor coached the fledgling Iron Lady

In 1972, a nervous Margaret Thatcher went to Laurence Olivier’s London home for a le…

‘A nice little cameo that Judi Dench hasn’t got her paws on’: Joan Plowright’s screen career blossomed with age | Peter Bradshaw ○

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Her film breakthrough in 1960’s The Entertainer was a harbinger of the calmness and strength she brought as a distinguished character actor – and as her lovable self in Nothing Like a Dame

  • Joan Plowri…

Joan Plowright was a dynamic force for change in British theatre ○

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The remarkable actor symbolised a radical new generation to her husband Laurence Olivier’s theatrical establishment

• Joan Plowright, celebrated star of stage and screen, dies aged 95
• Joan Plowright:…

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