I think it was all the hullabaloo over dear David Lynch dying that I must have missed the death of another legend in British Theatre, Dame Baroness Olivier, Joan Plowright
Joan Plowright and Daniel Massey in The Entertainer (1960)
in which she also starred opposite her husband to be Sir Laurence Olivier (noting the 24 year age difference - she played his daughter to Sir Laurence's Archie Rice character )
Curiously I was more a fan of hers than of his . . . . . I enjoyed some of his film work perhaps most noatablyoppositie Michael Caine in Sleuth and was suitable inspired by the work in Marathon Man but the theatre work was spoiled for me by playing opposite Dame Maggie Smith (Desdemona) in Othello in black face!! Dreadful!
She appeared most recently (well 2018) with the other dames in conversation which frankly was a delight despite her (their) afflictions (she was almost blind towards the end and suffered from the same affliction as my own dear Mother, another Joan, with macular degeneration)
Tea with The Dames
(featuring Dame Joan, Dame Eilen Atkins, Dame Maggie Smith and Dame Judi Dench)
we are of course all in love with all four!
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