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This 4 page report discusses
the film versions of two of Shakespeare’s plays that were directed by and starred Sir
Laurence Olivier. Olivier was so closely associated with Shakespeare that even his final
resting place is next to a representation of “the Bard.” Such an association was due, in
great part, to his movie portrayals of King Henry, the Fifth (1944) and the first of
Shakespeare’s plays turned into a movie that was made in color) and of Hamlet (1948),
winner of four Academy Awards. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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a tiresome story about a dark and brooding, self-absorbed, prima donna. Regardless of what anybody thinks of the play itself, the title role is proof of an actor having
"arrived." Proof that he (or in the case of Sarah Bernhardt, "she") has truly arrived. "Hamlet" is the role to which virtually all actors aspire. Each interpretation is always
different from the one preceding it, since each actor and director sees the role differently. Each actor hopes to make his mark as the greatest, the most soulful, the
craziest, the most sensual, the most . . . most "Hamlet." Regardless of the many who have tried to do that -- John Barrymore, Sarah Bernhardt, John Gielgud, Peter
OToole, Richard Chamberlain, Laurence Olivier, Kevin Kline, Mel Gibson and hundreds other in repertory or amateur productions -- one has repeatedly been named as the quintessential Hamlet on film. That
is the late Sir Laurence Olivier (1907-1989). "Lord Larry" as King Henry and Hamlet When Laurence Olivier died in 1989 at the age of 82, that ubiquitous chronicle of
the lives and deaths of celebrities, People (11-06-89) reported: "There will always be an England -- but, as Michael York said, speaking for the rest of the world, There will
never, never be another Laurence Olivier" (69). The article goes on to report that at the "service of thanksgiving" that took place several months later at Westminster Abbey in London:
"... the ashes of the centurys greatest actor will be placed beneath a bust of William Shakespeare" (69). Olivier was so closely associated with Shakespeare that even his final resting
place is next to a representation of "the Bard." Such an association was due, in great part, to his movie portrayals of King Henry, the Fifth (1944) and the first
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