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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM ( /ˈlɒrəns ɵˈlɪvi.eɪ/; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor, director, and producer. One of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, he was the youngest actor to be knighted and the first to be elevated to the peerage. He married three times, to actresses Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright. Actor Spencer Tracy said that Olivier was 'the greatest actor in the English-speaking world'.
Olivier played a wide variety of roles on stage and screen from Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and Restoration comedy to modern American and British drama. He was the first artistic director of the National Theatre of Great Britain and its main stage is named in his honour. He is regarded by some to be the greatest actor of the 20th century, in the same category as David Garrick, Richard Burbage, Edmund Kean and Henry Irving in their own centuries. Olivier's AMPAS acknowledgments are considerable: twelve Oscar nominations, with two awards (for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film Hamlet), plus two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received. Additionally, he was a three-time Golden Globe and BAFTA winner.
Actors: Patrick Williams (composer), Glenn Morshower (actor), Kirstie Alley (actress), Ann-Margret (actress), Patricia Richardson (actress), Robert Greenwald (producer), Griffin Dunne (actor), Titus Welliver (actor), Wallace Shawn (actor), Richard Roxburgh (actor), Patrick Dempsey (actor), Eric Bogosian (actor), Philip K. Kleinbart (producer), Michael Carman (actor), Joyce Eliason (writer),
Plot: A fictional biography of 'Marilyn Monroe' (qv) mixed with series of real events in her life: childhood years, first marriage to 'James Dougherty (I)' (qv), meeting with the photographer Otto Ose, career with XX Century Fox, relationship with her mother, foster parents, life wasters 'Charles Chaplin Jr.' (qv) (Cass) and 'Edward G. Robinson Jr.' (qv) (Eddie G), baseball player 'Joe DiMaggio (I)' (qv), playwright 'Arthur Miller (I)' (qv) and many other people.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, abortion, acting-class, acting-teacher, actor, actress, adoptionActors: Laurence Olivier (actor), Vivien Leigh (actress), Shane Briant (actor), Brian May (composer), Jerome Ehlers (actor), Anthony Higgins (actor), Robert Threadgold (miscellaneous crew), Sandra Levy (producer), Edward McQueen-Mason (editor), Jacek Koman (actor), John Lee (actor), Roger Simpson (writer), Roger Simpson (producer), Gary Files (actor), Ross Dimsey (producer),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Sheree North (actress), Dalene Young (writer), Viveca Lindfors (actress), Tracey Gold (actress), Norman Mailer (writer), Lawrence Schiller (producer), Lance Rosen (actor), Richard Basehart (actor), Frank Pesce (actor), Michael Fairman (actor), Alex Romero (actor), Catherine Hicks (actress), John Ireland (actor), Jack Arnold (director), William Goldstein (composer),
Plot: The story of how Norma Jean, once an orphan in Hollywood California, becomes Marilyn Monroe, the movie star and celebrity. The movie begins with Norma Jean as a child and ends with the mysterious way she dies. Throughout the movie, we see the highlights and lowlights of her career, including the parts of her private life not widely known.
Keywords: actress, agent, based-on-novel, career, character-name-in-title, fame, hollywood, icon, marriage, orphan