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19/05/2007

BBC Two - The Entertainer

Laurence Olivier plays a vaudeville entertainer with delusions of being a star.

Drama starring Laurence Olivier as an egotistical vaudeville entertainer who considers himself a star but whose life is an untold failure.

Bringing his stage role to the screen, Laurence Olivier plays an egotistical vaudeville entertainer with delusions of being a star, yet who plays to an almost empty house and whose home life - his father is dying and his wife an alcoholic - reflects the failures of his career.

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