He could speak William Shakespeare's lines as naturally as if he were actually thinking them, said English playwright Charles C. Bennett, who met Laurence Olivier in 1927. One of Olivier's earliest successes as a Shakespearean actor on the London stage came in 1935 when he played Romeo and Mercutio in alternate performances of Romeo and Juliet with John Gielgud. A young Englishwoman just beginning her career on the stage fell in love with Olivier's Romeo. In 1937, she was Ophelia to his Haml ...[Read Story]
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