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Performer: Jill Esmond [Alison Parrilow] Play Original. The Green Bay Tree (Oct 20, 1933 - Mar 1934) Performer: Jill Esmond [Leonora Yale] Play Drama Original. Private Lives (Jan 27, 1931 - Sep 1931) Performer: Jill Esmond [Sybil Chase] Play Comedy Romantic Comedy Original. Bird in Hand (Apr 04, 1929 - Jun 07, 1930)
Elegant, sophisticated British lead and supporting actress who fluctuated between stage and screen on both sides of the Atlantic. First wife of Laurence Olivier (1930-40), with whom she went to Hollywood for a screen test in 1931; both secured contracts with RKO, but Esmond was judged the more desirable film property and made several Hollywood ...
Esmond, Jill (1908–1990)English actress. Name variations: Jill Esmond Olivier. Born Jill Esmond-Moore in London, England, Jan 26, 1908; died July 28, 1990, in Wimbledon, England; dau. of Henry Vernon Esmond and Eva (Moore) Esmond; studied at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; m.
May 18, 2024 · He was married three times, to actresses Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright. Knighted in 1947, he became the first actor to receive a peerage in 1970, allowing him to sit in the House of Lords. Despite these honors, he retained his essential modesty; whenever asked if he should be addressed as Sir Laurence or Lord Olivier, the actor ...
Mar 22, 2022 · There have been many, many previous biographies of Leigh and several of Olivier (including one by his oldest son, Tarquin, from a first marriage to Jill Esmond); a memoir by Olivier ...
Mar 31, 2022 · Vivien’s husband, Leigh Holman, and Larry’s wife, Jill Esmond, had finally conceded and the divorce papers had come through, freeing their former partners. And so, back in Los Angeles after their tour, late on August 31, 1940, they set out for Santa Barbara, joined by their friends Katharine Hepburn and Garson Kanin, the writer of Born ...
Sep 5, 1992 · Olivier had already fallen out of love with Tarquin's mother, Jill Esmond, by the time he was born in 1936. Though Tarquin omits to tell us this, we know from Donald Spoto's biography that Jill ...
