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Aug 31, 2014 · The Vintage Bride: Vivien Leigh, Part Two. When Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier first met, they were both married to other people: Vivien had married Leigh Holman, a barrister, in 1932 and Olivier had married Jill Esmond, an actress, in 1930.
Jill Esmond Moore (26 January 1908 – 28 July 1990) was an English stage and screen actress.
Mar 29, 2022 · (A stage adaptation of Diderot) Seven years before, at 21, the virginal country Pastor’s son married better known actress Jill Esmond. “There was nothing of the passionate personality about her,” a friend said. She may have been gay.
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...
Love and Larry. Laurence Olivier’s son Tarquin witnessed the passion–and disintegration–of his father’s marriage to the incomparable Vivien Leigh. The child of Olivier’s first marriage, to the actress Jill Esmond, Tarquin nevertheless became very close to his stepmother, Vivien, and she in turn wrote to him frequently.
Oct 9, 2017 · Though Olivier was married to actress Jill Esmond at the time and Leigh was also married with a child, the pair took an immediate liking to one another.
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Dec 16, 2014 · Yet, among the welter of footnotes in this unappealing ‘life’, one sentence has stayed in my memory: the recollection of one of his secretaries, an exiled Russian princess, who described Jill Esmond, the first Mrs Olivier, as ‘one of the very rare unequivocally nice people [she] had ever met’.
