British actor Dame Joan Plowright’s remarkable Hollywood career spanned decades, earning her a spot as one of the most beloved faces in entertainment history. Known for portraying characters ...

Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind," died in 1967 at age 53 from tuberculosis. She also starred ...

A Tony Award winner in 1961 for Tony Richardson and George Devine’s A Taste of Honey and an Oscar nominee for Mike Newell’s Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British ...

Joan Plowright met the love of her life in husband Laurence Olivier. Their marriage was a ... While they kept their affair a secret at the time, they later divorced their exes and married in ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver ... Plowright, who was also married when the affair started, became Olivier’s third wife — ...

Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright in a scene from ... While they kept their affair a secret at the time, they later divorced their exes and married in 1961. A love letter from Laurence to ...

It details Leigh’s struggles with mental illness, which resulted in a breakdown, as well as her turbulent marriage to actor Laurence Olivier ... embarked on an affair. The production was ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver ... was also married when the affair started, became Olivier’s third wife — Lady ...

Laurence Olivier, and his wife, Lady Olivier, actress Joan Plowright. To Leigh’s horror, after trying to break free of his affair and spending time away from both women while he shot Spartacus ...

In Joan, Olivier saw a different life — one where he could settle down and have more children. Vivien eventually agreed to a divorce and Laurence went on to marry Joan at a US register office in ...