The untold story of how the BBC tried to persuade Laurence Olivier to make his first TV appearance is to be released in a new ...

The BBC are releasing thousands of files, including a letter inviting a 26-year-old Sir David Attenborough onto a TV training ...

The BBC is releasing archive material that will show the untold story of how the corporation attempted to persuade Laurence ...

This new initiative will make thousands of historic papers available to researchers and content makers, shining a light on ...

For most of his adult life, stage legend and Oscar-winning actor Laurence Olivier swam daily. “He really made it a commitment,” recalls his son Richard Olivier to Closer. “He would swim 30 lengths, ...

Vivien Leigh won Oscars for playing two of the most iconic Southern belles in American film: Scarlett O’Hara in 1939’s “Gone with the Wind” and Blanche DuBois in 1951’s “A Streetcar Named Desire.” 3 ...

LONDON — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was ...

Late in Stephen Galloway’s “Truly, Madly,” a workmanlike and ultimately sorrowful dual biography of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, comes an anecdote that could stand as a fractal representation of ...

The official synopsis on IMDb teases: "In 1913, Richard Herncastle joins Uncle Nick's magic act, traveling through the ...