Dame Joan Plowright — aka Baroness Olivier, aka third wife of Laurence Olivier —...
1660s
Louise de La Vallière (1644-1710) was a young, unmarried lady-in-waiting to Louis XIV‘s sister-in-law...
English actress Jenny Agutter recently had a birthday, and as I was posting images...
Sure, she’s Phryne Fisher to everyone now, but Essie Davis has shown up in...
This is a movie I wanted to like. Such a clever concept — who...
Tim Roth seems like a very nice guy, but he has a knack, as...
Yes, he was a “complicated man” (i.e., “raging alcoholic and unabashed misogynist”), but to...
I loved The Last King (2003), also known as Charles II: The Power and The Passion, when...
While the movie of Forever Amber (1947) doesn’t have the reported 70 references to sexual...
Consolata Boyle is an Irish costume designer who’s done a number of period films,...
