Personal Life
In 1939 Pilbeam married Pen Tennyson, a great-grandson of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson and an assistant director to Hitchcock. Tennyson became a film director the year they were married but died in a 1941 plane crash. Pilbeam was married to BBC Radio journalist Alexander Whyte from 1950 until his death in 1972. Their child Sarah Jane was born in 1952. Pilbeam was last known to be living in Highgate, North London.
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