The Entertainer

Guest host Dave Karger introduces The Entertainer, 1960.

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Joan Plowright as Jean visiting from London, Alan Bates her brother Frank catching up on the Morecambe, Lancashire promenade, discussing their song & dance man father (Laurence Olivier), then visiting the (still standing) Winter Gardens theater, Tony Richardson directing from the John Osborne play, in The Entertainer, 1960.

Within an early flashback Joan Plowright as art teacher Jean recalls seeing off her brother (Albert Finney as Mick), with her fiancè Graham (Daniel Massey), his unit having been called up from London for the Suez Crisis, in director Tony Richardson’s The Entertainer, 1960, starring Laurence Olivier.

Sister Jean (Joan Plowright) and stepmother Phoebe (Brenda De Banzie) worrying over paratrooper brother Mick, grandfather Billy (Roger Livesey) harrumphing, when actor father Archie (Laurence Olivier) arrives, early in Tony Richardson's The Entertainer, 1960.

On location at Morecambe in north Lancashire, worried Jean (Joan Plowright) with her retired actor grandfather Billy (Roger Livesey), turning to her father, his son, Archie (Laurence Olivier), his first appearance, also Alan Bates as her brother, in Tony Richardson's The Entertainer, 1960.

Hefty set piece from director Tony Richardson, Archie (Laurence Olivier) the M-C at a seaside beauty contest, his sister Jean (Joan Plowright), father (Roger Livesey) and stepmother (Brenda De Banzie) spectating, in The Entertainer, 1960.