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Esmond was married to Olivier between 1930 and 1940; they had one son, Tarquin Olivier (born 21 August 1936). During their marriage, Olivier had affairs with Ann Todd [12] and Vivien Leigh , the latter to whom he was married from 1940 to 1960.
- Jill Esmond Moore, 26 January 1908, London, England
- Actress
- 1
- 1924–1956
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...
Jill Esmond was present at that first meeting, in a New York hotel room, watching while her son was beguiled by the woman who had stolen her husband. Through the years, Jill acted toward Vivien with great dignity (even attending her memorial service when she died in 1967, aged 53).
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Dec 16, 2014 · Jill Esmond Olivier: The First Wife. Brian McFarlane. December 2014. Feature Articles. Issue 73. Feature image: Jill Esmond with Laurence Olivier. When I was eleven, an Australian schoolboy already besotted with the movies, I saw a film called My Pal Wolf (1944) at a kids’ holiday matinee in rural Victoria.
- Brian Mcfarlane
Aug 1, 1990 · Jill Esmond, the comely film and stage actress of the 1930s and ‘40s whose divorce from Sir Laurence Olivier made possible his marriage to Vivien Leigh, has died. Her family told the...
Feb 25, 1992 · Garbo’s chilly refusal came at the same time Olivier’s wife, Jill Esmond, was deciding that she would make her love life exclusively lesbian, almost. Not surprising that around this time...
She had married Laurence Olivier in 1930 and that might have explained her absence from the silver screen between 1934 and 1941, due to her marital obligations. After her divorce from Olivier in 1940, Jill returned to filming with Random Harvest (1942) in 1942.
