Spotted in New York in 1960, Dame Joan wrapped up warm in a beautiful wool coat with panelled lapels and a insulating yet ...

Dame Joan Plowright, whose already glittering stage ... Soon she broke into the 'angry young man' movement of the 1950s. In that decade she played many leading roles and took part in an Old ...

Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage to celebrated actor-director Laurence Olivier conferred on her instant rank among the theatrical nobility and who carved her own considerable and ...

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress and widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. "She enjoyed a long and ...

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg, Lincolnshire ... of the Royal Court Theatre in 1956 and gained recognition in dramas ...

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg ... in 1956 and gained recognition in dramas written by the so-called Angry Young Men, such as John Osborne, who were giving British theater a thorough airing ...

Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress of the ... theater that had begun in the late 1950s when a handful of “Angry Young Men” took aim at the glamorous, upper-class, frivolous and ...