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...years: Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Taste of Honey, and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Between times, he has staged Osborne's Luther in the West End, directed Laurence Olivier in the stage version of The Entertainer and Joan Plowright in Ionesco's The Chairs. He made Sanctuary for 20th Century-Fox, and remembers Hollywood with the same distaste that Hollywood reserves for him. His current film project is Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. "This is a holiday film," he says, "a lot of colorful, sexy...
...landed one of the most enviable roles any girl could ever want. She had been picked as Sir Laurence Olivier's leading lady for his new film. Term of Trial, joining a list that includes such distinguished predecessors as Vivien Leigh, Claire Bloom, Marilyn Monroe and Joan Plowright. Appropriately enough, she will play the role of a precocious schoolgirl. In the film, she tries to seduce her schoolmaster (Olivier), is spurned, and retaliates by charging him with assault...
Born. To Sir Laurence Olivier, 54, Britain's towering trouper, and his Tony-winning third wife, Actress Joan (A Taste of Honey) Plowright, 32: a son, their first child and his second (the other, by First Wife Jill Esmond, is now 24 and roving in the Far East); in Hove, East Sussex...
Married. Sir Laurence Olivier, 53; and Joan Plowright, 31, dark-eyed English actress; he for the third time, she for the second; in Wilton, Conn...
...affirming adaptation of James Agee's Knoxville chronicle, A Death in the Family; Advise and Consent, a superficial but suspenseful political melodrama based on the Allen Drury bestseller; A Taste of Honey, an episodic but unblinkingly truthful first play about a desperately lonely girl, brilliantly performed by Joan Plowright; and Period of Adjustment, a comedy in which Tennessee Williams turns marital counselor in an unprecedentedly optimistic work that displays more deftness than depth. Among last season's worthiest survivors: Lillian Hellman's corrosive Toys in the Attic; Paddy Chayefsky's sensitive, mystic and comic The Tenth...