Peggy Ashcroft
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Dame Edith Margaret Emily "Peggy" Ashcroft was an English actress whose career spanned more than six decades, both on screen and stage.
Ashcroft in 1936
Ashcroft in 1936
The Old Vic, photographed in 2012
Gielgud as Benedick
Laurence Olivier
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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier was an English actor and director. He and his contemporaries John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson made up a quartet of male actors who dominated the
Peggy Ashcroft
…taken lessons some years before. The school's emphasis was on the voice and elegant diction, which did not appeal to Ashcroft or to her fellow pupil Laurence Olivier. She learned more from reading My Life in Art by Constantin Stanislavski, the influential director of the Moscow Art Theatre. While still a student…
Olivier in 1972
The house in Wathen Road, Dorking, Surrey, where Olivier was born in 1907
Interior of All Saints, Margaret Street, which Olivier attended