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Laurence Olivier: Performances
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The film was a hit and Olivier was praised for his performance, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Leigh won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Gone with the Wind, and the couple suddenly found themselves to be major celebrities throughout the world. They wanted to marry, but at first both Leigh's husband and Olivier's wife at the time, Jill Esmond, refused to divorce them. Finally divorced, they were married on 31 August 1940.
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Dame Judi Dench received her 13th Laurence Olivier nomination for her performance as Countess of Rossillion in All's Well That Ends Well. Dench is nominated for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a field that ... includes Samuel Barnett (The History Boys), Amanda Harris (Othello) and Eddie Redmayne (The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?).
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Olivier's performance was malign, witty, excessive and irresistibly contagious. His high-pitched "Now is the winter of our discontent" entered English folklore: you will still hear pub mimics, unborn at the time of Olivier's death, attempt a wildly approximate impersonation of him and get a laugh for it.
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