Esmond had been promised a role by David O. Selznick in "A Bill of Divorcement" (1932) but at only half-salary.
Skupaj z Olivierjem je nastopila tudi v dveh broadwayskih produkcijah, leta 1931 v igri "Private Lives" (ob njej sta nastopila še Noel Coward in Gertrude Lawrence) in leta 1933 v igri "The Green Bay Tree".