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UNHAPPY ENDING
ends claimed the big difference in their ages would be the downfall of Linda's marriage to Pev.
This is about a beautiful girl who married for love — but failed to find it. This is the story of Linda Darnell, who fought a losing battle.
BY LESLIE SNYDER
■ "Actress Linda Darnell to divorce Pev Marley !"
The words jumped out from morning paper headlines. All Hollywood knew that this marriage had been shaky almost from the start, but there was a disheartening finality about the announcement. All who are close to Linda hoped she and Pev would work out a solution to their difficulties. Now it was obvious that no such solution had been found.
There it was in black and white, Linda's statement that she'd done everything she could to hold the marriage together, but was finally faced with the fact that it would never work out.
"This time I mean it. We're through."
It's never easy to admit defeat. It was especially difficult for Linda Darnell to admit that her marriage was a failure. In the small community of Oak Cliff, Texas, where she grew up, people who got married stayed married. It was an "until death do us part" proposition. Linda always took a dim view of divorce. Marriage has always meant a partnership to her — a give-and-take arrangement founded on love and mutual respect.
During her seven years of marriage to Pev Marley, Linda had analyzed and re-analyzed their apparent incompatibility. This is not snap decision. What finally caused the break? Little things started it..
Big problems can be brought out into the open, discussed, and eventually solved. But petty annoyances wear on the nerves. Mention of a small grievance seems like manufacturing a fight, so nothing is said and the restlessness grows, and the breech is widened.
This is the case with Linda and Pev. They want to be together, but differences in temperament are constantly working to keep them apart.
Pev is high strung, sensitive — completely wrapped up in his job as a cameraman. He's a fine technician and an outstanding artist in his field. He expected too much of a 20-year-old girl who never had much of a chance to make up her own mind about things.
Friends could tell you about the night Linda came home from the studio dog-tired. (Continued on page 22)
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