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Rita Haywortli was 17 and still obscure when she was wed to 40-year-old Ed Judson. "He married me as an investment," stie later cried.
Bing Crosby's marriage to Dixie Lee was one teen . Barbara Lawrence eloped with John age romance that lasted. On the verge of separa Fontaine against her mother's wishes, tion a year after the wedding, they reconciled. was divorced less than a year after.
■ "Bing Crosby is a line boy as a friend — but married, he and I cannot be happy!"
Dixie Lee (Mrs. Groaner) said that. Not yesterday, or last week, but back in March, 1931, when for one full week she and Bing were separated. "We have been married about six months," she continued, explaining to reporters, "but we have already found out that we are not suited to each other."
How about that? Today the Bing Crosbys are pointed to as one of Hollywood's finer examples of sane, happy, married folk. But at the time Dixie made her statement, she was ready to throw in the sponge. She was 18 when she wed the obstreperous, happy, playboy Crosby, and not yet 19 when she decided, briefly, to call it quits.
So they went back together after a lalapalooza of an argument. And only recently Dixie said, "That was the brightest thing little Wilma Wyatt (her real name) ever did !"
No such hearty endorsement of the wisdom of a teen-age wife can be uttered in connection with most adolescent
movie marriages. The records of Hollywood divorce prove that these early marriages frequently result in more than mere temporary disillusionment. There for all to see is the fact that these divorces often are initial symptoms of tragedy to come — nervous breakdowns, prolonged ill health, search for escape in use of narcotics. Sometimes — yes, sometimes even death!
A sensational charge, that — but consider the case of Carole Landis. It is more than idle opinion that events leading up to her suicide began their inexorable march on January 14, 1934, when the doomed actress married at the age of 15. Five weeks later, while still in high school, she sought a divorce.
Always a "good egg," and one of the most delightful girls who ever rose to stardom, Carole was from the beginning haunted by one yearning — the desire for happy marriage. And by one great fear — that she would never find happiness. Three times, thereafter, her heart ruled her head. Between July of 1940 and December of 1945, she (Continued on page 103)
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