tutoring her pupils about Hamlet. "He is one of the first action heroes," her character says, before setting up the school's film projector. "What you are about to see now is a scene from the film by ...

It was in 1956 when the late Joan Plowright (who has died aged 95) first clocked eyes on the man who would become her second husband, Sir Laurence Olivier ... as did the 1970 movie Three Sisters ...

Winning the Academy Award for Best Picture guarantees a movie its place in the history books. But does anyone watch every movie listed in the history books? They can't all be winners on the level of ...

The Oscars have given out 96 awards for Best Picture in their long history. Here’s one thing you should know about each film, from ‘Wings’ to ‘Oppenheimer.’ ...

It details Leigh’s struggles with mental illness, which resulted in a breakdown, as well as her turbulent marriage to actor Laurence Olivier ... simply say she did movies, and then she went ...

Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage to celebrated actor-director Laurence ... a “Hamlet”-loving schoolteacher who shows her class a clip of her late husband Olivier’s movie ...

How many great Shakespearean performances have you seen at the movies? Here are 17 Shakespeare ... A classical virtuoso along the lines of Sir Laurence Olivier, Branagh has spent his career ...