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From under my Hat
She divorced Hank Falaise, who was speedily taken on as a husband by Constance Bennett. Gloria married Michael Farmer, had a daughter by him, divorced him, then found a friend, patron saint, and bank roll all in one and the same person— Joseph P. Kennedy.
Joe was on the crest of the wave of a brilliant business career. He settled in Hollywood, built up a stable of stars at the old FBO Studio (now owned by Howard Hughes), and, besides Gloria, signed up Constance Bennett (close quarters, in the circumstances), Joel McCrea, and Laura Hope Crews as Gloria's coach.
Soon after this lucky meeting Gloria accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy on a trip to Europe. It must have been a mighty trying trip for Mrs. Kennedy. I often wondered how she weathered it.
Gloria's first talkie was The Trespasser, and Laura Hope Crews coached her for every syllable, pouring all her knowledge and stage experience into the task. She practically lived night and day with Gloria. Laura was aided and abetted by Edmund Goulding, a director with a sly gift for dragging forth talent from the remotest corners in which one may hide it. The Trespasser was a hit, the first of Gloria's many comebacks.
The production of Queen Kelly was something else again. Many things turned sour, and the picture never was finished. Joe Kennedy's father-in-law, the legendary "Honey Fitz," onetime mayor of Boston, ordered Joe to wind up his film affairs and get out of Hollywood by a given date or certain secrets— still secret except to a fewwould burst out into the open. Joe always was a lucky Irishman. He sold out his Hollywood holdings at the peak, took a profit of six million dollars, and wound up as our Ambassador to Great Britain during FDR's first term.
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Gloria made another comeback some years later, at RKO. But the story was wTretched and she wasn't much better. Wisely deciding to learn to act, she took to the straw-hat circuit in the East. It takes guts for a girl who's had everything, whose name has been blazoned throughout the world, to play week after week in summer stock with people whose names aren't even known within a radius of five miles. 168