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    Jill Esmond Moore (26 January 1908 – 28 July 1990) was an English stage and screen actress. Early life. Esmond was born in London, the daughter of stage actors Henry V. Esmond and Eva Moore. [1] . Dramatist W.S. Gilbert and actress Maxine Elliott were her godparents. [2] . One of her maternal aunts was Decima Moore. [citation needed]

  2. www.imdb.com › name › nm0260728Jill Esmond - IMDb

    Jill Esmond. Actress: F. P. 1 Doesn't Answer. Jill Esmond was born on January 26, 1908 in London, England, UK. She was 23-years-old when she first came to prominence when she first appeared in The Skin Game (1931) in 1931. Once Jill got in the groove, she kept up a steady pace.

  3. 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...

  4. 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.

  5. Jill Esmond was born on January 26, 1908 in London, England, UK. She was 23-years-old when she first came to prominence when she first appeared in The Skin Game (1931) in 1931. Once Jill got in the groove, she kept up a steady pace.

  6. When Olivier and Jill Esmond met, he was a struggling actor and she the successful actress daughter of what was then Britain’s leading theatrical family. Her father, Henry Esmond, wrote 28 plays and was an actor-manager of great note. Her mother, Eva Moore, was a star and an influential hostess.

  7. Dec 16, 2014 · Jill Esmond. Married a few months earlier, they both went to New York in 1930 at Noël Coward’s invitation to appear with him and Gertrude Lawrence in his Private Lives on Broadway, and in the wake of its enormous success they were both beckoned to Hollywood.

  8. Aug 1, 1990 · Jill Esmond, a film and stage actress who was the first wife of Laurence Olivier, died on Saturday at her home in Wimbledon. She was 82 years old. No cause of death was given.

  9. Jill Esmond. British actress. Learn about this topic in these articles: marriage to Olivier. In Laurence Olivier. …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.

  10. On July 25th, 1930, Jill Esmond officially became the first Mrs. Laurence Olivier. Jill, a British actress, was 22 years old and her bridgegroom, Larry, was 23. Jill Esmond came from acting royalty.