Laurence Olivier performed alongside an actress.
Laurence Olivier . In 1935 he played in a celebrated production of Romeo and Juliet alongside Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft , and by the end of the decade he was an established star . Among Olivier 's films are Wuthering Heights ( 1939 ) , Rebecca ( 1940 ) , and a trilogy of Shakespeare films as actor-director : Henry V ( 1944 ) , Hamlet ( 1948 ) , and Richard III ( 1955 ) . Love Among the Ruins is a 1975 American made-for-television romantic comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier which premiered on ABC on March 6 , 1975 . Rebecca (1940 film) . The film was produced by Selznick and stars Laurence Olivier as the brooding aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter and Joan Fontaine as the young woman who becomes his second wife , with Judith Anderson and George Sanders .