Sir Laurence Olivier

Standard Name: Olivier, Sir Laurence

Connections

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Friends, Associates	Ngaio Marsh	She had a wide circle of friends and contacts both in England and in New Zealand, where she knew everyone in the theatrical world. At her home in Christchurch she entertained visiting celebrities like, in...
Intertextuality and Influence	Josephine Tey	Although Shakespeare 's Richard III clearly plays a major role in shaping the myth of Richard's villainy against which Tey writes, she alludes to this play only in passing, when a character comments on Laurence Olivier
Performance of text	Josephine Tey	Gordon Daviot 's Queen of Scots, directed by Sir John Gielgud and starring Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies and a young Laurence Olivier , opened at the New Theatre in London. Gielgud, Sir John, and Josephine Tey. “Foreword”. Plays by Gordon Daviot, Peter Davies, 1953–1954, p. ix - xii. ix Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982. 10: 139 Roy, Sandra. Josephine Tey. Twayne, 1980. 23
Performance of text	Hélène Gingold	After its initial, single performance at the Brighton Pier in Sussex on 4 July 1910, Looking for Trouble went on to a forty-one-performance run at the Aldwych Theatre in London between 13 May and 21...
Textual Features	Ngaio Marsh	The core of Play Production is the commonsense of stagecraft and the illusionist assumption of the Victorian theatre, modified by those new ideas which changed the theatre in the first half of the twentieth century...
Textual Features	Josephine Tey	Like Richard of Bordeaux, this play follows the troubled career of a less-than-successful ruler and ends with a forced abdication. Daviot's realistic, balanced portrayal of Mary went against conventional representations of the Queen as...
Textual Features	Aldous Huxley	Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier got top billing, and the film was advertised as The Gayest Comedy Hit of the Screen! Five Gorgeous Beauties on a Mad-Cap Manhunt! The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com.
Textual Production	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice has been many times adapted for the theatre and for the large and small screens. Both A. A. Milne and the Australian dramatist Helen Jerome produced stage versions during the 1930s, and...
Textual Production	Daphne Du Maurier	DDM sold the film rights for Rebecca to producer David O. Selznick for $50,000. The screenplay was written by Joan Harrison and Robert E. Sherwood , who made several changes and additions to the text...