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♦ MOVIE CLASSIC TABLOID NEWS SECTION ♦
What does Ann plan to do now? She will continue to live in the hilltop home she and Harry built together. Her present screen contract runs until May, 1933
Divorce of Ann Harding and Harry Bannister Stuns Movie Colony
Union Had Been Called Happiest Marriage In Hollywood
—Couple s Sudden Decision Totally Unexpected Even By Friends
By LOUISE SYKES
.-1 uitc y Ann Harding has suddenly become "a woman of mystery" to Hollywood, which never expected her to be divorced
WHEN Ann Harding and HarryBannister announced that they were parting, Hollywood was stunned. This was one "happy movie marriage" that even Holly-wood believed in. Everyone in town studied the notes the couple sent to the press, tried to "read between the lines," to find the real reasons for the divorce.
Ann wrote that because Harry, submerging his own career to hers, had gradually become known as "Mr. Ann Harding," they were divorcing "before this unfortunate situation has a chance to destrov the love and respect we have for each other." Harry wrote that he had had Ann's "love and respect and devotion" during the five and a half years of their marriage, and to preserve this, they were taking "the apparently drastic course" of divorce.
Ever since their arrival in Holly
wood three years ago, these two have been exceptions to the Hollywood rules of scandal, divorce and marital unhappmess. Writers rapturouslyreported Ann's praises of domestic life, her love for her husband and child. Photographers pictured her with her little girl in her arms, pictured Ann and Harry much together. People beamed approvingly, "This is one Hollywood marriage that is different."
\\ omen's clubs, very particular whom they invite to speak to them, sought out Ann Harding continually— as the one actress they could admire with clear consciences. Perhaps no other part of the public, except their personal friends, suffered the shock of dismay of these women's clubs when the divorce plans were released. Their last Hollywood illusion had been taken from them — this seemed to be their attitude. Everywhere a writer goes in Hollywood these days, he is besieged with questions. "What's the lowdown on the Harding-Bannister divorcer" Players talk about little else over lunch tables. Ann's studio, RKO, is still slightly dazed. They had no warning of the divorce plans. The publicity department bewails the
fact that they didn't have a chance to break the news "more tactfully." Ann Harding is bearing herself through these trying days like the soldier's daughter she is. Self-discipline carries her to work every morning, head high. She steadfastly refuses to add anything to the statements she
A typical picture of Ann Harding, Harry Bannister and their daughter, Jane — "one happy family," now broken apart by divorce. Ann will have custody of Jane
and Harry issued. Ann has made no plans. Harry, of course, is going back to Broadway.
All kinds of theories have been advanced byr Holly/wood, explaining the sudden break-up of their marriage. The only theory that seems to be ignored is that the simple explanations that Ann and Harry themselves offered might possibly' be true.
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