Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

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Hollywood's divorce statistics * about 500 players currently are active in motion pictures. * approximately one out of every six has been divorced. * of the 500, 48 have been divorced once. * of the 500, 24 have been divorced twice. * of the 500, 8 have been divorced three times. on the innocent heads of the children. Agars couldn'-t. As an inescapable result, Linda will suffer. Here are two strong-willed people, with a child as their only remaining bond. "I want our divorce on a high and dignified level for our little daughter's sake," Shirley told the press. But all the height and dignity of Mt. Everest wouldn't serve to conceal the bitterness behind this break. With more than a trace of condescension, Shirley announced that Jack was a nice boy but a little mixed up. She assured one reporter that careers had nothing to do with it. Yet a month earlier, she'd been telling Louella Parsons: "I've grown up with the motion picture business. Jack hasn't, and he can't understand the difficulties of a career. He doesn't like the publicity that's a necessary part of any star's life. You don't know how hard it is when you go out to a nightclub and everything you say is magnified into something important. Sometimes after a quarrel, Jack doesn't come home,and it's very heartbreaking. . . ." Her friends say that Jack neglected her, that she was a golf widow, that he was rude to her in public. His friends say that the marriage never had a chance, that he was expected to act as first gentleman-in-waiting to (Continued on page 70)