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Joan, at twenty-one, has been a bride, a mother, a divorcee, the apex of a famous triangle — and now a bride again. Who can match her career to date?
ON HOLLYWOOD'S marry-go-round Joan Bennett has pulled the. golden ring! True, on the spirited chargers that so gaily pirouette to a mad jazz rhythm, vaguely reminiscent of Mendelssohn, one only goes round-and-round — grasping at new rings, hopeful that the next will be better than the last, throwing the past aside for "just one more chance."
Joan Bennett Fox Markey, at twenty-one, has been
SCREENLAND
Joan Grabs the Bennett Spotlight!
Sister Connie has our cover— here's where Joan stars
By Helen Harrison
the central figure of at least two famous triangles — but in her quiet, wide-eyed manner the little blonde sophisticate has plucked Hollywood's (and points East) most eligible bachelor with all the ease she has consistently exercised since, at sixteen, she left the confines of a French convent to marry John Martin Fox, then matriculating at an English college.
That was five years ago — enough time for an upstanding Bennett to annex a wee daughter — Adrienne, blonde elf — named for her grandmama, to divorce her husband, time indeed to declare she was "through with romance," and then to figure prominently in the John Considine-Carmen Pantages triangle. There are those who have felt Carmen, as Mrs. Considine, came off the victor in that hot-cold-luke-warm-hot-again romance — but I share the opinion of most that Joan had ceased to care, or else there might have been a different ending to that story. Considine, you will recall, was the one to first sign Joan to her contract, when she was immediately cast opposite Ronald Colman in "Bulldog Drummond." She had had other plans then, had actually studied interior decorating and endeavored to persuade her mother to go into business with her. Since then exterior decorating has been Joan's line — and what grand curves and divine color schemes she has accomplished.
At all events, last autumn Joan found herself wholehearted and single — long-distanced daily by a famous political play-boy and a first-water critic, and shortstopped nightly by several of California's most regal Romeos !
Back in 1929, when Joan was seriously considering the movies as a means of earning her sarouks and sables, a nebulous triangle was forming across the continent. Ina Claire, blonde, beautiful, and bewitching had done just that to Gene Markey, gifted magazine writer and coming premier scenarist. For many years Ina and Gene had been a familiar pair at the Algonquin, and week-ends at Ina's beautiful Portchester menage were unfailingly graced by the certain charm of Markey. Here, on the broad lawns of Westchester, Ina would sit, a script in hand, her lovely dogs grouped at her feet — Gene figuratively so — the centre of admiring friends, and it seemed to those who knew them best that life would go on so forever — that Ina Claire (nee Fagan), the sensation of the 1912 Follies, the scintillating star of innumerable Broadway successes, would soon be Ina