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Laurence Olivier’s Son Recalls Memories With His Father: He ‘Was a Great Joy to Be Around’
Laurence Olivier was 'very caring' and 'very entertaining,' his son Richard Olivier exclusively tells Closer of childhood memories with his late father.
That fell to Richard’s mother, actress Joan Plowright, whom her son praises as “very grounded, sensible and practical.” She created a markedly different life for Laurence than the glamour and excess of his marriage to Gone With the Wind ’s Vivien Leigh. Getty Images In his last decade, illness forced Laurence to choose film roles over the more physically taxing stage work, but they allowed him more days at home. “It feels like it’s the right time to hopefully send a lot of it to good homes,” says Richard, founder of Olivier Mythodrama, a leadership practice inspired by the plays of Shakespeare.
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