RELATIONS?

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1933, Page 7

RELATIONS?

FILM PRINCIPALS’ MARRIAGES

SOME STRANGE ANOMALIES

Hollywood’s births, marriages and divorces are going a, long way toward making one big family of film folk. When Mary Piekford married , Owen Moore, Alice Joyce, having been married to Tom Moore, became her sister-in-law. Eventually, Tom married lienee Adoree. Obviously, Mary and Renee are related as a result, but there , is not as yet a word coined to describe such a relationship.

Through her brother Jack, wh u died recently, Mary was, in fact sister-in-law to the ill-fated Olive Thomas, Marilyn Miller and Mary Mulhern. She was also sister-in-law to the three husbands of her sister Lottie.

Douglas. Fairbanks’ first wife }vas both Sully, mother of Douglas, jun. 11'he former Mrs Fairbanks is now: the wife of Jack Whiting, who is not much older than her son. Had Joan Crawford ever placed Doug, and Mary in the spotlight of two famous grand" parents she would have made a grandfather . f Mr Whiting, a young man 11 his twenties! When Dolores Costello made John Barrymore a father, her own father who is only two years older tliah her husband, became a grandfather, One of her baby’s cousins, John Barrymore

ut, son of Ethel Barrymore,, is said to bo more than interested in Dolores’ sister Helene, who was recently divorced from Lowell Sherman. “ ;

If Helene Costello marries;, young Colt she will become her sister’s neice and Maurice Costello, being. her “aunt’s” father as well as lifer own, will become her granduncle! \ Hollywood has many youjig ; and pretty stepmothers. Loretta i-Ydung’s marriage to Grant Withers added one more to their number, for Grant had a child by a former marriage.' John Gilbert is the father • of"Leatrice Joy 11, and so his . youha; bride, Virginia Bruce, becomes a stepinfether. For a time Gilbert’s , little- gifer . had Ina Clare for a stepmother, buiAi twas in name only, as the child liyes:: with, her mother who has married/again, By his first wife Francis. Xp;Bushman had ,a large family, •, including Francis, jun., and a daughter f' Virginia. Though Virginia is only,twenty she is stepmother to a girl of eighteen,the daughter of her husband’!.' (Jack Conway) first wife. . /r -w.