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brown-eyed leading lady, Beverly Bayne !
If you think Olivier and Vivien Leigh are causing a romantic furore today — you should have heard the riot ignited by the Bushman-Bayne romance.
On one side were the defenders — those who thought that this was one of the great love stories of the day — that the famous star and his lovely bride should be commended for their courage in defying the world for their love. On the other hand — there were the disillusioned fans who thought Bushman should be boiled in oil.
That Beverly and Frank were deeply in love no one doubted. They weathered the storm of public indignation courageously, and at one time I think they would have let the world go hang for the sake of their love. But their marriage was strangely short-lived— -probably because at this time, after so much fuss over his charms — Francis X. Bushman had begun to believe his own publicity.
I AM not saying that Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh and that other romantic duet of today, Norma Shearer and George Raft, will meet a similar disastrous fate in their lives. But looking back over the years it is amazing to realize how many great love stories between two great stars have gone on the rocks, or have had tragic consequences.
Impossible to even write the name of Rudolph Valentino without remembering
Raft and Shearer may not wed but no one can deny deep friendship, happiness here
— Rhodes
If Vivien Leigh had to choose between career or Olivier she'd take love, forget fame and work. He feels same about her
— Rhodes
a staff of secretaries to answer all the correspondence, sign Bushman's name to the letters and thus keep the fires of feminine adulation blazing for our hero.
In justice to Frank, I must say he didn't like the idea. He didn't see why he should deny his wife and five beautiful children. But the secretaries did their job of forgery so well we were nearly bowled over one day when a woman showed up at the studio in a bridal veil all set to marry our handsome Francis X. I can see him yet, running like mad down the back lot. Then came the great expose !
It was a body blow to the feminine hearts of America when the news broke that Bushman was married and had five children ! But this was nothing compared to the commotion that sprang up later over what I believe was the first sensational divorce of screen history. Bushman left his wife to marry his lovely,
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