Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier

Important actor GA, need ideas as to how to reach FA. ...._(Complain)^{(Let us to it pell-mell)} 03:27, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Plange

Good work! I just made some minor tweaks and changed out a word that you were using alot. In the War section, I'm now curious to know what the change was? Do we know? I know there's no explanation for why the change except for what he said but would be good to know what the change was... more quiet, more reserved, grumpy?

• "It was the first widely successful Shakespeare film, and was considered a work of art by some" by whom? critics? Might be good to source this one so you won't get accused of WP:WEASEL.
• I'm new at this, so I might be off-base, but is this WP:PEACOCK? "The result, however, was an astounding success"
• The Hamlet area too under trilogy needs some sourcing and has some potential peacock terms....
• This left me hanging and intrigued: "He became the founding director; however, his career at the National ended, in his view, in betrayal, and tragedy" what happened?
• You have a lot of short sections and maybe it might be better to put the Shakespearean trilogy and the National Theatre info under a section called "Directing career" or "As Director", and then take the short info on The Entertainer and merge it with Later career and use it as a lead off into the character acting part. Like:

Since the end of World War II, apart from his Shakespeare trilogy, Olivier had made only sporadic film appearances. Towards the end of the 1950s, British theatre was changing with the rise of the "Angry Young Men". John Osborne, author of Look Back in Anger wrote a play for Olivier titled The Entertainer, centred on a washed-up stage comedian called Archie Rice. As Olivier later stated, "I am Archie Rice. I am not Hamlet." During rehearsals of The Entertainer, Olivier met Joan Plowright.[12] He left Vivien Leigh for Plowright, a decision that apparently gave him a sense of guilt for the rest of his life.[citation needed] Olivier married Plowright on St. Patrick's Day, 1961. Leigh died in 1967. By this time, Olivier had left his romantic screen persona and became a character actor, appearing more frequently in films and was unrecognisable as Othello in the film adaptation of the National Theatre play. After being gradually forced out of his role as director of the Royal National Theatre, Olivier became concerned that he had not done enough to provide for his family after he died....(pick up rest)

plange 23:47, 30 July 2006 (UTC)