Jill Esmond

Jill Esmond made her London stage bow at 14, several years before she attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In 1931, she came to Hollywood with her then-husband Laurence Olivier. RKO Radio optioned the services of both Esmond and Olivier -- then kept only Esmond, after deciding that the future Sir Laurence wasn't suitable for films. Of her RKO films, only Ladies of the Jury (1932) and Thirteen Women (1932) are truly memorable. She returned to England with Olivier in the 1930s, where she concentrated on the stage. When she came back to Hollywood in 1942, it was as a husbandless character actress (Olivier had married Vivien Leigh in the interim); she remained in films until her retirement in 1955. Jill Esmond was the daughter of Eva Moore, a character actress best remembered for her performance as Ernst Thesiger's prudish sister in The Old Dark House (1932).

Highest Rated Movies

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
No Score Yet	A Man Called Peter	Mrs. Findlay	—	1955
No Score Yet	Night People	Frau Schindler	—	1954
No Score Yet	Escape	Grace Winton	—	1948
No Score Yet	The Bandit Of Sherwood Forest	The Queen Mother	—	1946
No Score Yet	Casanova Brown	Dr. Zernerke	—	1944
80%	The White Cliffs of Dover	Rosamund	—	1944
89%	Random Harvest	Lydia Chetwynd	—	1942
No Score Yet	Journey for Margaret	Susan Fleming	—	1942
100%	The Pied Piper	Mrs. Cavanaugh	—	1942
No Score Yet	This Above All	Nurse Emily	—	1942
No Score Yet	On the Sunny Side	Mrs. Aylesworth	—	1942
No Score Yet	F.P.1	Claire	—	1933
No Score Yet	Thirteen Women	Jo Turner	—	1932
No Score Yet	Is My Face Red	Mildred Huntington	—	1932
17%	The Skin Game	Jill	—	1931
No Score Yet	State's Attorney	Lillian Ulrich	—	1931

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