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- BFI identifier629864
- Date2001-11-03 (Television)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- SynopsisDocumentary following the courtship, wedding and subsequent married life of actress Joan Plowright and screen/stage legend Laurence Olivier following his divorce from Vivien Leigh. The programme looks at the couple's romance, Olivier's difficulties with the manic-depressive Leigh, their marriage in New York, and Plowright's helping of Olivier in establishing the National Theatre. The programme also follows Plowright as she visits London's Royal Court Theatre, where she first met Olivier when he went back stage, with then-wife Leigh, to congratulate her on a performance. (Synopsis)
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- CreditsDirector: Nadia Haggar
[Subject of Programme]: Laurence Olivier
[Subject of Programme]: Joan Plowright
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Title
When Larry Met Joan (Original)
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