Such was the case with 1940's Rebecca, starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier. The movie was based on a book of the same name published in 1938. Proof that adapting popular contemporary ...

The couple married in 1940, but divorced 20 years later in 1960 Laurence Olivier and English actress Joan Plowright in John Osborne’s play, The Entertainer in 1958Credit: AP The relationship ...