21 Days

Laurence Olivier, whose character shares his nickname, Larry, skulks into the London offices of his big-shot barrister brother Keith (Leslie Banks), whom he doesn’t know is campaigning to be made a judge, sharing bad news, in 21 Days, made in 1937, released in 1940.

Joining Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, both in their first scene, before their romance was known in public, in an Alexander Korda production shot in 1937 but released in 1940, as ne’er-do-well English Larry and Russian emigrè Wanda, surprised to meet Esme Percy, in 21 Days.

Big-shot London lawyer Durrant (Leslie Banks), helping cover for his brother (Laurence Olivier, not seen) who accidentally killed the estranged husband of his Russian emigrè mistress Wanda (Vivien Leigh), visits her flat, in producer Alexander Korda’s 21Days, 1940.