“I’ve only seen it that once,” Laurence Olivier’s first wife Jill Esmond told their son Tarquin. “If you are ever hit by it, God help you.” The passion she referred to was the one that destroyed her marriage. In 1937, Olivier left her and 11-month-old Tarquin and eloped with Vivien Leigh, who crept away from her sleeping husband and toddler in the middle of the night to join him. Olivier, known to everyone as Larry, apparently felt guilty for
