Laurence Olivier News

A mirror ball, 3ft across, descends into the bleak boarding house, scattering red-white-and-blue beams over the brown sofa, brown table, brown sideboard, brown chairs; above the ball, a majestic crown from which stream bunting union jacks.

Just about everyone involved in this 1966 epic about Britain's imperial adventure in Sudan deserves to have sand kicked in their faces Not a tent-pole release a Charlton Heston as Gordon, Laurence Olivier as the Mahdi and Richard Johnson as Stewart in Khartoum.

Caption: Michael Caine Gala Premiere of 'Is Anybody There?' held at the Curzon Mayfair - Arrivals.

British actress who achieved motion picture immortality by playing two of American literature's most celebrated Southern belles, Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche DuBois.

Lionel Barrymore. Alastair Sim. Laurence Olivier. Albert Finney. George C. Scott.

In this film publicity image released by Disney, Bob Cratchit carries Tiny Tim, both characters voiced by Gary Oldman, in a scene from "A Christmas Carol." Lionel Barrymore.

HEATH LEDGER and his sister Kate were named for the two main characters in "Wuthering Heights," later a movie starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon.

A Grade II listed red phone box in Denton, Kent, which featured in the 1969 film Battle of Britain is under threat after BT earmarked it for removal because it is not used enough.

On a grassy hill in the Leicestershire countryside, the King of England - the gold circlet of a crown on his helmeted head - sat astride a white charger and surveyed the red-earthed valley below.

Bronte's gothic tale of moors madness gets the William Wyler treatment in this classic movie version starring Merle Oberon as Cathy and Laurence Olivier as Heathcliffe.

Neil Diamond put Sweet Caroline on the charts, and although he has Jewish roots, that's not stopping him from performing Christmas songs and hymns like Amazing Grace on his newly released CD, 'A Cherry Cherry Christmas'. Neil Leslie Diamond , also known as "Jewish Elvis", is an American singer-songwriter. Diamond tried his hand at film, starring in ...

Richard Wilson is the latest star to don Malvolio's yellow stockings for the RSC - what is it about the great grump that attracts actors? Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear a ' and Malvolio? Few audiences would rank Twelfth Night's misanthrope, tricked into capering about in a pair of yellow stockings, as one of Shakespeare's major roles.

Though not yet published on their website , the results for the joint survey carried out by Mills & Boon and the Cheltenham Literary Festival on literary heroes are already public.

Fabrice Calmels, the dancer with the Apollonian physique, whose height might more easily qualify him as a member of the Bulls than the Joffrey Ballet, confesses that he found it difficult to read Shakespeare's "Othello" in English.

'Now is the winter of our discontent," gripes Richard III -- OK, technically he's still Richard Duke of Gloucester, having yet to murder his way to the throne when he makes his complaint at the start of the Shakespeare play bearing his name, now on the boards of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater at Navy Pier.

Theatre critics tend to write as if the play's the thing a ' and give the performances short shrift.

In the classic movie thriller Marathon Man, the character played by actor Dustin Hoffman gets tortured by an evil dentist, who keeps asking, "Is it safe?" Hoffman doesn't know how to answer so he utters almost anything to get the bad guy, played by Laurence Olivier, to stop drilling his teeth.

London, Lenny Henry finds moor in Othello More reviews by Henry Hitchings Formidable presence: Lenny Henry as Othello and Jessica Harris as Desdemona Look here too Casting Lenny Henry in the role of Othello ensures a breathless audience - greedy to see how the neophyte compares with such august predecessors as Paul Robeson, Orson Welles and ...

The series returns in good form, but, you know, after six seasons, some of the magic has faded.

The Streetgirl: And then? Emma: Then what? The Streetgirl: What happened after? Emma: There is no then.