FILM STARS’ MARRIAGES
Why So Many Are Unhappy
Plain reasons why film Stars fire doomed to unhappy marriages are given by a well-known psychologist, Dr. Boris Norkovin, who knows many of them. Suppose, he says, a woman marries an actor who is adored by all her sex. She will resent this “mass adoration.” Like the proverbial valet, she will know her husband as a normal, ■capricious human, and she will be unable to understand the “tremendous waves of interest and vicarious love he enjoys.” Disillusionment is rapid. She sees younger and prettier women gathering round her man, jealousy Hares up. and the marriage is soon over. The position is even worse, says Dr. Norkovin, when an ordinary man marries a world-famous star.
Now suppose two stars wed. Dr. Norkovin declares: “The couple have no real personal life. They are entirely self-centred. Neither gives anything to the other.
“The man, giving romance to millions, gets none for himself. The woman, adored by her public, becomes an image with which no man could long remain in love.”
Divorce 'follows. If one or other can fall in love and keep in love with the real person to whom they were first attracted, then and then only can stars win happiness in marriage. Generally speaking, says Dr. Norkovin, “unhappiness in their personal lives is the price film stars pay for the glory of their public careers.”
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 100, 22 January 1936, Page 20
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