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| vivien_leigh | Oct 10 2008, 03:33 AM Post #1 |
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Born Jill Esmond Moore 26 January 1908(1908-01-26) London, EnglandDiedJuly 28, 1990 (aged 82) Wimbledon, England Years active1930 - 1956 Spouse(s)(Laurence Olivier July 25, 1930 - January 29, 1940) (divorced) 1 child Tarquin OlivierJill Esmond (born Jill Esmond Moore) (26 January 1908 – 28 July 1990) was an English actress. Esmond was born in London, the daughter of stage actors Henry V. Esmond and Eva Moore. While her parents toured with theatre companies, Esmond spent her childhood in boarding schools until she decided at the age of fourteen to become an actress. She made her stage debut playing Wendy to Gladys Cooper's Peter Pan but her success was shortlived. When her father died suddenly in 1922, Esmond returned to school and at the time considered abandoning her ambition to act. After reassessing her future and coming to terms with her father's death she studied with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and returned to the West End stage in 1924. In 1925, she starred with her mother in a play Mary, Mary Quite Contrary, and after a few more successful roles, won critical praise for her part as a young suicide in Outward Bound. In 1928 she appeared in the production of Bird in the Hand where she met fellow cast member Laurence Olivier for the first time. In his autobiography Olivier later wrote that he was smitten with Esmond, and that her cool indifference to him did nothing but further his ardour. When Bird in the Hand was being staged on Broadway, Esmond was chosen to join the American production - but Olivier was not. Determined to be near Esmond, he travelled to New York City where he found work as an actor. Esmond won rave reviews for her performance. Olivier continued to follow Esmond, and after proposing to her several times, she agreed and the couple were married on July 25, 1930; they had one son, Tarquin Olivier (later a film producer), in 1936. Returning to the United Kingdom she made her film debut with a starring role in an early Alfred Hitchcock film The Skin Game (1931), and over the next few years appeared in several British and (pre-Code) Hollywood films, including Thirteen Women (1932). She also appeared in two Broadway productions with Olivier, Private Lives in 1931 with Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence, and The Green Bay Tree in 1933. Her career continued to ascend while Olivier's own career languished, but when his career began to show promise after a couple of years, she began to refuse roles. She had been promised a role by David O. Selznick in A Bill of Divorcement (1932) but at only half-salary. Meanwhile, Olivier discovered that Katharine Hepburn had been proposed a much greater salary. He convinced Esmond to turn down the role. However, A Bill of Divorcement was a smash hit, and the fame that became Hepburn's could have been Esmond's. Esmond withstood the publicity of Olivier's affair with Vivien Leigh and did not seek a divorce. Pressed by Olivier, who was anxious to marry Leigh, she eventually agreed and they were divorced on January 29, 1940. Many biographies state that her decision was in part based on her discovering that she was a lesbian.[1][2] She returned briefly to acting and appeared in such popular films as Journey for Margaret, The Pied Piper and Random Harvest (all 1942) and The White Cliffs of Dover (1944). She starred in the Broadway production of Emlyn Williams' play The Morning Star in 1942, a production noted for the acting debut of Gregory Peck. Her acting appearances grew more sporadic with the passage of time and she made her final film appearance in 1955 but did have a recurring role as Eleanor of Aquitaine in the late 50's TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood. In her later years, Esmond discussed the bitterness she still felt towards Olivier and her feeling that she had sacrificed her career so that he could further his own, only to find herself cruelly discarded. However she came to his memorial service in October 1989 at Westminster Abbey, frail and in a wheelchair. (My Father Laurence Olivier by Tarquin Olivier, Headline Books, 1992) She was 82 years old when she died on July 28, 1990 in Wimbledon, London. ![]() ![]() |
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| vivien_leigh | Oct 10 2008, 09:00 PM Post #2 |
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![]() Eva Moore with her daughter Jill Esmond ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eva Moore (1870-1955) 1923 (15t) ![]() 1925 ![]() ![]() 1933
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| vivien_leigh | Oct 10 2008, 10:50 PM Post #3 |
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BROTHERS IN LAW (1956)![]() ![]() ![]() 1937 ![]() ![]() 19/7/1930 ![]() ![]()
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| vivien_leigh | Oct 10 2008, 10:52 PM Post #4 |
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| vivien_leigh | Oct 10 2008, 10:56 PM Post #5 |
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![]() Eva Moore (February 9, 1870 – April 27, 1955) was an English actress, born in Brighton, England, and who died in Maidenhead, England. In 1891 she married the actor Henry V. Esmond (d.1922). They had two children, Jack and Jill (the actress Jill Esmond). Eva was the daughter of Edmund Henry Moore by his spouse Emily née Strachan. Educated in Brighton she made her first stage appearance at London's Vaudeville Theatre on December 15, 1887, as Varney in Proposals. She next joined Toole's company and appeared at Toole's Theatre on December 26 as the Spirit of Home in Dot. She later managed Esmond's notable comedy Eliza Comes to Stay, which opened at the Criterion Theatre on February 12, 1913, transferring to the Vaudeville, July 6, 1914. In October 1920 the couple toured Canada with Nigel Bruce as their stage manager, who also played Montague Jordan in Eliza Comes to Stay, which re-opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in London on June 14, 1923. Her on–stage roles included Lady Ernestone in Esmond's My Lady Cirtue (1903) and Wilhelmina Marr in his Billy's Little Love Affair (1903); Mabel Vaughn in The Wilderness (1901) and Kathie in Old Heidelberg (1902 and 1909) with George Alexander. In 1907 she took the name part in Sweet Kitty Bellaire (1907); and she played Mrs. Errol in Little Lord Fauntleroy and Mrs. Crowley in The Explorer in 1908., and the Hon. Mrs. Bayle in Best People and the Hon. Mrs. Rivers in The House Opposite in 1909. Eva Moore also appeared in numerous films, and published her reminiscences under the title of Exits and Entrances. |
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