HOLLYWOOD MARRIAGES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 365, 5 March 1932, Page 24 (Supplement)

HOLLYWOOD MARRIAGES.

Fewer Divorces Sought During 193 R

The year 1931 was a good year for Cupid in cinema circles. In Hollywood, home of America’s third largest industry, twenty-six screen couples were united and only sixteen marriages were dissolved, while one couple, the Gleasons, actually celebrated their silver wedding.

It was also an exceptionally romantic year because most of the newly married players are world-famous stars of the talkies. Among them are Constance Bennett and the Marquis de la Falaise, Gloria Swanson and Michael Farmer, Winifred Coe and Richard Dix, June Collyer and Stuart Erwin, Carole Lombard and William Powell, Dorothy Mackaill and Neil Miller, Virginia Valli and Charles Farrell, Helen Twelvetrees and Frank Woody (who were married twice: in Reno on March

21 and again in Santa Cruz on April 21), Clara Bow and Rex Bell, Kay Francis and Kenneth M’Kenna, Mary Astor and Dr Franklin Thorpe, Lola Lane and Lew Ayres, Nancy Carroll and Bolten Mallory, Mrs Rhea Langham and Clark Gable, Nan Sutherland and Walter Huston, Arline Judge and Wesley Ruggles, Hazel Woolf and Lewis Stone. Other film weddings of 1931 were celebrated between Marjorie Moss and Edward Goulding, Virginia Shelley and Frank Albertson, Beatrice Powers and James Kirkwood, Eleanor Merry and Tom Moore, June M’Cloy and Schuyler Schenck, Marjorie Rambeau and Francis Gudger, Mary Nolan and Wallace Macreerv, Dorothy Appleby and Morgan Galloway, Rita La Roy and Ben Herschfield.

From those gains losses must be subtracted for the dead or dying romances of Helene Costello and Lowell Sherman, Estelle Taylor and Jack Dempsey, Jenet Gattis and John M’Cormick, Frances Marion and George Hill, Grace and Lawrence Tibbett, Ann and Don Alvarado, Dorothy Lee and James Fidler, Irene Rich and David Blankenhorn, Loretta Young and Grant Withers, Ginger Rogers and Jack Pepper, Ina Claire and Jack Gilbert, Jeane Kent and Robert Armstrong, Edna Murphy and Mervyn Le Roy, Edna May Oliver and D. W. Pratt, Frances Bcranger and Don Cook, Mrs and Mr Cliff Edwards.

Over divorces accomplished or impending there is a net gain of ten marriages for the year. Hollywood is reforming.

Babies, once unfashionable among film stars, were also popular during 1931. Ten is the total score, and a very commendable birth-rate among a community whose careers demand almost constant appearance on the screen.

The first of the year was Harold Lloyd, jun. Weighing only 21b 4oz at birth, and an incubator case, he is now a sturdy youngster of The film city showed a preference for girls, for only two other boys were born into cinemaland last vear, Reginald Leigh Denny, jun., on October 28, and Albert Louis Werker on November 6. Heralding the seven girls came Patricia, daughter of Diana and George Fitz’maurice, born on June 2. The 17th of the same month made proud parents of Bernie Fineman, the producer, and Margaret de Mille, who named their baby Judith.

Daughter of the former Shirley Mason, Sheila May Lanfield made her debut on July 14; Mary Esther Ralston Webb was born to Esther Ralston and George Webb on August 10; Daryllin

Zanuck arrived on August 28, and was named after her father, Daryll Zanuck, executive head of the Warner-First-

National studios; Barbara Bebe Lyon made the first of the Bebe Daniels-Ben Lyon family on September 9; and on October 7 the hard-pressed stork delivered Judith Goetz to Edith Mayer and William Goetz. A New One. It 'vas alter a pre-view of a certain picture in the West-end of London. “What do you think of it?” asked the director of a man he had hitherto regarded as his friend. “ You’ll make a lot of money out of this picture if you cut it,” said the supposed friend. “Cut it?” queried the director. “Yes, cut it up into banjo picks ’’—and thus another friendship died. , Unusual Claim. Jean Harlow, the famous platinum blonde, claims that her legs are longer than those of any other film actress.