On Sunday’s Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, Laurence Olivier came up in conversation ... they do mention legendary Black actor and singer, Paul Robeson, who played the role from ...

The comments came during a discussion about Laurence Olivier, who infamously wore blackface ... darkened their faces and characterized Black people "as lazy, ignorant, superstitious, hypersexual ...

Last spring I included in my Shakespeare on Stage and Screen syllabus the 1965 film of “Othello” starring Laurence Olivier ... pronounced than Olivier’s shoe polish black but no less ...

Alvin Rakoff, the Canadian-born filmmaker who directed Laurence Olivier in A Voyage Round My ... Erivo’s Elphaba By Having Her Played By A Black Woman ...

Shows about French drag artistes and Scottish soldiers took top honors Sunday at the Laurence Olivier Awards recognizing ... set in a French Riviera nightclub. “Black Watch,” Gregory Burke ...

The film is black & white, not Technicolor ... and one of the best imaginable teachers, Laurence Olivier. Girl from the Suburbs. Jean Simmons has lived in Golders Green, a suburb of London ...

A roster of productions already familiar to New York theatergoers took top honors Sunday at the Laurence Olivier Awards, Britain’s equivalent of the Tonys. “Black Watch,” above, Gregory ...

Laurence Olivier, and his wife ... where the actress was appalled to see a white farmer shove a black man into the gutter. In 1956, Devine invited her to join the newly formed English Stage ...