The couple married in 1940, but divorced 20 years later in 1960 Laurence Olivier and English actress Joan Plowright in John Osborne’s play, The Entertainer in 1958Credit: AP The relationship ...
The Entertainer, however ... rebellion," Plowright would recall in her memoir And That's Not All, "that Laurence Olivier, king of the Establishment, suddenly and unexpectedly propelled himself." ...