Which actor was married to Vivien Leigh and Joan Plowright?
Joan Plowright of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1970 New Year Honours and was promoted to Dame Commander (DBE) in the 2004 New Year Honours. Plowright's eyesight declined steadily during the late 2000s and early 2010s due to macular degeneration. In 2014, she officially announced her retirement from acting because she had become completely blind. Plowright was first married to Roger Gage, an actor, in September 1953. She divorced him and, in 1961, married Laurence Olivier after the ending of his 20-year marriage with the actress Vivien Leigh. The couple had three children, Richard Kerr (born December 1961),
Vivien Leigh stayed with the Oliviers and helped calm her. In 1958, considering her marriage to be over, Leigh began a relationship with actor Jack Merivale, who knew of Leigh's medical condition and assured Olivier that he would care for her. In 1959, when she achieved a success with the Noël Coward comedy "Look After Lulu!", a critic working for "The Times" described her as "beautiful, delectably cool and matter of fact, she is mistress of every situation". In 1960 she and Olivier divorced and Olivier soon married actress Joan Plowright. In his autobiography, Olivier discussed the years of strain they had