#Jill Esmond Moore

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JULY 28: Jill Esmond (1908-1990)

Having passed away on this day in 1990, Jill Esmond is mostly remembered as the first wife of the legendary Laurence Olivier, but the lesbian actress also enjoyed a thriving career of her own and led a deeply closeted life.

A publicity shot published in Picture Play Magazine in June 1932 shows Jill gracefully leaning her head on the back of a chair (x).

Jill Esmond Moore was born in London on January 26, 1908. Her parents were both actors who constantly toured with theater troupes while Jill was away at boarding schools. However, she eventually dropped out and made her own stage debut in a production of Peter Pan in 1922. After studying for a time at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Jill got her big break on London’s West End with the play Outward Bound. In 1928, Jill would meet Laurence Olivier as her cast mate in the production of Bird in the Hand and he would become her husband on July 25, 1930.

Jill Esmond and Laurence Olivier pose with their wedding party in 1930 (x). 

Although Jill migrated to America and enjoyed a successful career for many years starring in films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s The Skin Game and Thirteen Women, it was her connection to her more famous husband that would eventually make the name Jill Esmond go down in history. Legend has it that both Jill and Laurence regretted their marriage just weeks after the ceremony, but it wasn’t until the couple’s dual performance in the Broadway hit The Green Bay Tree that really saw the beginning of the end of their marriage. 

The play featured multiple gay characters and a former lover of Jill’s, Phyllis Konstam, would later say, “Night after night they were speaking lines and creating characters that mirrored their own private lives. She preferred women to men. He was, at the very least, bisexual. They must have known that the marriage could never last.” Despite putting on a happy face for the public, Jill and Laurence’s marriage was deeply unhappy and riddled with extramarital affairs. With the birth of her son Tarquin in 1936 and her inevitable divorce from Laurence in 1940, Jill’s acting career became sporadic. She had begun to turn down roles that her husband disapproved of, which were many, and by the time they had separated it was too late to reclaim her former stardom.

Jill’s very last acting role was as Eleanor of Aquitaine in the 1955 television series The Adventures of Robin Hood. Despite the barrage of bad press and celebrity gossip that followed her divorce and Laurence’s subsequent Hollywood affairs, Jill remained on good terms with her ex-husband for the rest of his life and was in attendance at his 1989 funeral. She would pass away herself just a year later on July 28, 1990 at her home in Wandsworth, London.

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