Muliple marriages are a time-honored custom among Hollywood stars, today as well as in the classic period we cover. Here are three samples.
Recognize the three couples pictured today?
They just weren’t destined to stay together.
Can you indentify them? (Answers tomorrow.)
Not much to talk about today it seems…
1) Lew Ayres and Ginger Rogers
2) Jackie Coogan and Betty Grable
3) Tony Martin and Alice Faye
Just to show you there is hope in HOLLYWOOD when it comes to marriage…
How about the marriage of RICHARD BENJAMIN and PAULA PRENTIS – 57 years!
Richard Benjamin has been a director for decades. His acting career’s most remembered role would have to be as the surviving tourist on the run from Yul Brynner’s robot gunman in WESTWORLD (1973). He also co-starred with Ali McGraw in GOODBYE COLUMBUS (1969)… And as a director he gave us MY FAVORITE YEAR (1982).
Paula Prentis was a pretty comedienne who possessed a deep, throaty chuckle that fans found very sexy. In 1961, at the age of 23 she Richard Benjamin and they have remained together ever since.
Prentis played opposite Rock Hudson in MAN’S FAVORITE SPORT (1964) and with Jim Hutton in 1962’s THE HORIZONTAL LIEUTENANT and Tom Tryon IN HARM’S WAY (1965). Never enamored with the Hollywood scene, she has retired a few times, but bobbed back every now and then, usually in one of her husband’s films. She has also had psychological issues that interfered with her career from time to time.
Paula’s older sister Ann Prentis was also an actress, mostly in television, although she did score a leading role as Barbara Miller in CALIFORNIA SPLIT (1974). Unfortunately, she developed serious mental problems that, in 1997, resulted in her being sentenced to 19 years in a penitentiary on charges of terrorism, making terrorist threats, assault with a firearm and battery. She was also found guilty of attempting to solicit the murder of her own father and Paula’s husband! She died in 2010.
Of course all this is very TRIVIAL, but just like Joe & Frank we’ve got to come up with something every day, even if our ‘readers’ don’t appreciate the effort!
Mr Hill, your logic is painful.
Your readers appreciate the effort, it’s the people who aren’t ‘your readers’ who don’t appreciate the effort.