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MARRIAGE IN HOLLYWOOD continued
FIRST lime for Lana Turner was with orchestra leader Artie Shaw.
Careers and personality conflicts
ance with somewhat less seniority in marriage — at least to one another — were ageless Ginger Rogers and her handsome young Gallic mate, Jacques Bergerac, and equally ageless Lana Turner and her attentive spouse, Lex Barker.
Miss Rogers and Monsieur Bergerac caused a certain amount of harmless neck craning inasmuch as they were back together after a round of not too well concealed bickering and wellpublicized separation. Miss Turner was the object of staring merely because she had trimmed down her famous chassis, and she looked, if that was possible, lovelier and more alluring than ever. After three years of basic training as Mrs. Lex Barker, she had come to be regarded as the happy party to a reasonably durable marriage. The 11-year-old wedlock of June Allyson and Dick Powell — having weathered a number of vehemently minimized but enormously publicized difficulties — was now considered well nigh indestructible.
Dick seemed content and unconcerned as his wife and Herr Fischer smilingly established the rapport they would presumably need on the set of "My Man Godfrey" and again when she danced with a handsome, deep-voiced young actor after she had disposed of her duties as an official greeter.
But within a month of the cocktail party at Romanoff's, there ensued a wave of marital earthquakes that sent the needles jumping on Hollywood's romantic seismograph. In the general upheaval, the elaborately launched Herr Fischer was dropped from "My Man Godfrey" for the announced — and acknowledged — reason that he could not bring himself to follow the instructions of his American director, and he was replaced by David Niven.
THERE were even more interesting reshufflings in domestic lineups. June Allyson and Dick Powell despaired of making a go of their marriage, and separated in order to contemplate their incompatibility from a distance. Lana Turner and Lex Barker produced another temblor when they abruptly grew tired of playing house and thereupon quit each other's company.
The rocking and rolling of vulnerable Hollywood marriages did not seem particularly unseasonable, but the casualties bordered on epidemic proportions. Nor were the victims con
THIRD: Beaming on their 1948 honeymoon are Lana and industrialist Bob Topping.
SECOND: Lana married Steve Crane twice in a row and bore him her only child, Cheryl.