Internationally acclaimed for his acting and directing, Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) was often regarded as the supreme actor of his generation. The son of a clergyman, Laurence Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, England. His first appearances on the...

Hailed as the greatest actor of his time, Laurence Olivier reflected the twentieth century definition of the consummate actor. He starred in hundreds of roles on stage and on screen, was fundamental in establishing Great Britain's Royal National...

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (IPA: /ˈlɒɹəns əˈlɪvieɪ/; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Emmy-winning English actor, director, and producer. He is one of the most famous and revered...

Today is Tuesday, May 22, the 142nd day of 2007. There are 223 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:One hundred years ago, on May 22, 1907, actor-director Laurence Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, England.On this date:In 1813, composer Richard Wagner was born...

A small budget revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical "Sunday in the Park With George" took a handful of prizes Sunday at the 2007 Laurence Olivier Awards, while the Monty Python romp "Spamalot" emerged the night's biggest loser."Spamalot" went home empty-handed despite seven nominations, including best...

Today is Tuesday, April 10, the 100th day of 2007. There are 265 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 10, 1912, the RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.On this date:In 1790, President George Washington signed into...

Best-selling writer Ira Levin, whose genre-hopping novels such as the horror classic "Rosemary's Baby" and the Nazi thriller "The Boys From Brazil" provided meaty movie roles for Mia Farrow and Laurence Olivier, has died of a heart attack, his agent said Tuesday. He was 78.Levin,...

Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier evidently thought Terence Rattigan's play, "The Sleeping Prince," worthy of their talents as producers. But Rattigan's thin little comedy, about an American chorus girl who stirs an aging and stodgy Carpathian grand duke into action, although a great hit in London, created little interest in New York. The movie, with a script written by Rattigan, does afford the two leads plenty of opportunity to display their individual abilities and they make...

The coupling of Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl represents one of the shrewdest gimmicks in show-business; the film was guaranteed maximum curiosity value before one foot of it was shot. I found the combination of these two stars irresistible and salute a brave attempt to inject Ruritanian dash into the rather dreary provincialism of so much British Cinema. (p. 21) One has become accustomed over the years to a certain amount of filmed theatre but there comes a time when st...

In directing his first non-Shakespearean film [The Prince and the Showgirl], Laurence Olivier has kept mainly to a stage tempo. Lines are theatrically pointed, pauses held, the pace is muted. This method throws the performances into high relief, and it is inevitably for its playing, its much-publicised union of talents, that the film will be seen. Olivier himself repeats his stage performance, an accomplished exercise in building a sizeable pile of bricks without a great deal of straw…. Mildly entert...