11 thoughts on “WCW: Joan Plowright

  1. My favourite Enchanted April. She is so perfect in it. Everyone is. Tea with Mussolini is a close second.

  2. DAT HAT in the Importance of Being Earnest. It’s the glorious sort of thing you wear to church to passive aggressively piss off your rivals by blocking their view of the pastor.

    The hats in Widow’s Peak are more casual wear I want in my collection.

  3. I happened to see her in Twelfth Night (as Viola) from a BBC/ITV production (1970?) with Sir Alec Guiness (!) as Malvolio. For the completists …. ;)

  4. I enjoy her but am not into 20th century period shows or movies much…which a lot of hers seem to be…

  5. Is that the Importance of Being Earnest with the Tom Selleck version of Paul McGann? :D

  6. Avalon is one of those perfect movies. Its so perfect it rends your heart.

  7. I saw Dame Joan in a London production of Shaw’s “St. Joan” over 50 years ago.
    She sat on the edge of the stage and talked with “Charlie” (Dauphin) several times—about three feet from me. I’d snagged a single seat in the front row.
    The costumes generally made the production but the only one that could be considered a “frock” was worn by the Cardinal.
    Dame Joan was got up as Peter Pan.

  8. I have to say it – she’s Lady Olivier, not Baroness Olivier. (Yes, a man holding the lowest rank of peerage is technically a baron, but he is always known as ‘Lord X’, and his wife is ‘Lady X’. Only women who have inherited or been granted the peerage in their own right are known as ‘Baroness X’ – e.g. Margaret Thatcher was made a peer in her own right after she retired from Parliament and thus became Baroness Thatcher.

    1. I have a great deal of respect for the crazy that you said all of that.

  9. She reminds me a bit of Elsa Lanchester–the big, round eyes, the elfin quality, and yet she’s earthy as well. I’d love to have seen J.P. as Joan of Arc.

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