(September 21, 1937 - August 30, 1951) (divorced) (1 child)
Late 1936
meets young actor Cornel Wilde at a booking office in New York. She dislikes him at first but agrees later to date.
21 September 1937
ten months later she elopes with Wilde to Elkton, Maryland. He`s twenty-two; she`s seventeen. They can`t spare any of his $35 for a ring, so she uses one she has had since childhood. He`s 22; she`s 22.
1937
they spend their honeymoon performing in an unsuccessful off-Broadway revival of Moon over Mulberry Street
Spring 1938
the Wildes participate in a drama festival at Ann Arbor, Michigan
Summer 1938
they are in summer stock at Gloucester, Massachusetts
1939
looses her baby in a miscarriage
Laurence Oliver and Vivian Leigh hire Wilde as a technical advisor on the fencing sequences for their Romeo and Juliet, to be staged in New York the following year. She is contracted for a small part.
9 May 1940
Romeo and Juliet debuts on stage in New York, after San Francisco and Chicago
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the Wildes move from New York to Hollywood
22 February 1943
her daughter, Wendy, is born in a Los Angeles hospital
1944
she calls him "Hormel," and he considers her prettier than any of his leading ladies. They live in an English-style Beverly Hills canyon house.
1945
columnist Sidney Skolsky reports that she is an obliging person and anything Cornel does is okay with her
1946
dates several influential
professionals to help her own screen career
c. 1946
screen-tests opposite her husband for Forever Amber
October 1947
the Wildes have separated three times
1948
confesses to Hedda Hopper that if work will interfere with her marriage, she will settle for no career
1949
Cornel Wilde proves to be a casting problem because of his insistence that she be given star status. Columbia gives in by starring them together in Shockproof.
1949
director Douglas Sirk considers her handsomeness rather angular and thinks she is not enormously talented during the filming of Shockproof
March 1949
accompanies her husband to Switzerland where he`s on location for Four Days Leave. There she meets Danish skating champion and actor Nils Larsen.
c. Summer 1950
on location in Austria for The Magic Face, she rekindles her relationship with Larsen
August 1950
they perform pre-Broadway outings in summer stock theaters in Dennis and Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Westport, Connecticut; and Marblehead, Maine
1950
back in Hollywood, the Wildes pay $77,000 for a mansion formerly owned by film star Norma Talmadge, which sits atop a hill in exclusive Bel Air
February 1951
the Berkshire Players asks her to do Gaslight in Bermuda. She will have a quick visit with Cornel in Florida.
June 1951
even though she called off her trip to Nevada, chums expect her to marry her Brazilian admirer, Loupo de Macao, after her divorce from Wilde
July 1951
makes her home for six weeks at Cal-Neva Lodge at Crystal Bay, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, in order to establish Nevada residency
August 1951
is seen ringside at the Dorothy Shay show with Loupo de Macao
1951
the property settlement between her and Wilde has to be rewritten because one of their oil wells came in
30 August 1951
divorces Wilde in Reno, Nevada. She obtains custody of daughter Wendy, with Cornel ordered to pay $200 weekly alimony and child support. Afterwards, she claims: "I don’t want to get married to anyone for a year or so. Loupo is nice and he understands." 33-year-old Loupo, reported to be in the coffee business, has been her almost constant companion in Reno these last weeks. Five days later Wilde marries the ex of actor Franchot Tone, former nightclub songstress-turned-actress Jean Wallace.