Dame Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95 ... In 1961, aged 31, Plowright married Sir (later Baron) Laurence Olivier, 22 years her senior and the de facto king of the British theatre establishment. He ...

Joan Plowright and Laurence Olivier rehearsing for The Entertainer in 1960. Keystone Press/Alamy In 1960, she starred in the award-winning Broadway run of A Taste of Honey by Salford's Shelagh ...