Laurence Olivier

Tim Adler leads an unauthorized tour in 'The House of Redgrave'

2013-03-27 15:37:00

On Jan. 30, 1937, Michael Redgrave was performing the role of Laertes in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" at the Old Vic in London. After the performance, Laurence Olivier stepped onto the stage to announce, "Ladies and gentleman, tonight a great actress was born:...

Albert Marre dies at 87; director of 'Man of La Mancha'

2012-09-18 00:00:00

The teleplay "I, Don Quixote" captured the attention of theater director Albert Marre in 1959, but not for its intense drama. He "saw it as a musical." By 1963, Marre was meeting in Palm Springs with the teleplay's author, Dale Wasserman, to sketch out...

Review: 'Dropped Names' by Frank Langella dishes on fellow actors

2012-06-03 00:00:00

Dropped Names Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them Frank Langella Harper: 356 pp., $25.99 Frank Langella's "Dropped Names" is a different kind of memoir. Rather than recapping his life story, the veteran stage and screen actor offers a series of...

PASSINGS: John Finnegan, Nan Merriman, Sidney Reznick

2012-08-02 00:00:00

John Finnegan Character actor appeared regularly on 'Columbo' John Finnegan, 85, a character actor who portrayed a scout in the 1984 baseball film "The Natural" and regularly appeared on television's "Columbo," died Sunday at his Palm Desert home from...

Andrew Garfield is 'getting on the fridge' as Biff, Spider-Man

2012-06-01 08:13:00

NEW YORK — Seeing as he grew up in the county of Surrey in southeast England and was called one of Britain's rising stage actors at an early age, you might expect that Andrew Garfield has Sir Laurence Olivier as one of his role models. But his...

Kirk Douglas on the blacklist: Why Hollywood showed so little courage

2012-06-05 16:39:05

Movies: Designs that build character

2011-12-18 00:00:00

A movie doesn't have to be jampacked with cinema style to have a memorable fashion moment or two, and in the course of screening the slate of holiday-season films, we found all kinds of clothes, accessories, hairstyles and makeup worth a mention. "Hugo"...

Oscars by the Numbers

2012-02-02 16:41:14

Around Town: Films, screenings and more in L.A. this week

2012-01-04 16:37:30

Oscar voters: How some TV veterans made it into the academy

2012-02-22 21:38:05

John Malkovich's message to the theater world on its special day

2012-03-09 16:33:33

Warner Bros. to release Samuel Goldwyn film library on DVD

2012-03-30 16:33:31

Laurence Olivier was about 40 in the 1948 version of "Hamlet" (with Jean Simmons as Ophelia). The Prince of Denmark is actually about 30 in Shakespeare's play.

2012-09-12 13:03:00

The 1939 version of Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" starred Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. For decades, Olivier was the go-to actor for highbrow literary adaptations.

2012-09-12 13:02:57

The comic became an Academy Awards mainstay, hosting or co-hosting the Oscars 18 times from 1940 to 1978. In 1959, he led an eclectic group of hosts that included Jerry Lewis, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Tony Randall and Mort Sahl. Hope, above, holds Loretta Young and his honorary Oscar in 1952.

2012-08-02 11:40:46