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- Birth nameNora Noel Jill Bennett
- Jill Bennett was born on December 24, 1931 in Penang, Malaysia. She was an actress and writer, known for The Nanny (1965), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Moulin Rouge (1952). She was married to John Osborne and Willis Hall. She died on October 4, 1990 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- SpousesJohn Osborne(May 23, 1968 - August 11, 1977) (divorced)Willis Hall(1962 - 1965) (divorced)
- Committed suicide from an overdose of pills in 1990, after suffering from acute depression abetted by her stormy marriage and subsequent divorce from the writer John Osborne. She was his fourth wife.
- Her marriage to John Osborne was a tempestuous one, and ended in considerable acrimony. Osborne let it be known that he had given her the nickname "Adolf", and continued to be vituperative about her long after her suicide - something which made him very unpopular. However, he was very friendly, right up to his own death, with her first husband, Willis Hall.
- Her ex-husbands, Willis Hall and John Osborne, bonded through their bad experiences of being married to her, and every time they heard she was thinking about remarrying, they would warn her prospective husbands about exactly what they were taking on.
- Had a long-term relationship with the much older actor Sir Godfrey Tearle (1884-1953) in the late 1940s and early 1950s before marrying screenwriter Willis Hall. In her book, Godfrey: A Special Time Remembered (1983) she described their four years together as the happiest of her life.
- Born in Penang, Federated Malay States, to British parents; her father was a rubber plantation owner.
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