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(1941 - 24 May 1964) (her death) 3 children
1938
in London she meets actor-director-screenwriter Peter Godfrey
28 June 1941
today in “Fidler in Hollywood” one reads to "expect an early Yumating of Director Peter Godfrey and foreign import Renee Haal"
1941
marries Peter Godfrey
22 July 1942
her husband is quoted as saying that for a happy marriage, husbands and wives should take turns at being boss. He also says that he does not mind when his blue-eyed wife films a scene that demands she kiss the hero, no matter how thoroughly. “A kiss may not be strictly professional, but the fact that it is for the screen enables one to view it philosophically.”
Mid-1940s
during the war, she and her husband are popular with the troops for the amateur magic shows that they put on through the USO
1944
changes her name to Renee Godfrey
2 May 1946
production came to a standstill for two hours the other day on the set of PRC’s Missouri Hayride set. She went home to have lunch with her husband, who, before he became a Warner Brothers director, was a professional magician. After lunch, he enlisted her help to rehearse a stunt in which his assistant escapes from a locked trunk. Something went wrong with the escape mechanism, and she, fortunately able to breathe through air holes in the trunk, remained a prisoner until a hastily summoned key maker succeeded in picking the lock.
15-16 February 1952
rabbits, top hats, beautiful girls, black art from the times of the Pharaohs, and all other beguiling accoutrements necessary to keep theatergoers on the edge of their seats are at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, Los Angeles, for the “Night of Magic” revue, sponsored by the Society of American Magicians. Heading 8 outstanding world-famous acts are Peter and Renee Godfrey, Vic Perry, Bert Easley, the Haskells, and others who were chosen for their outstanding abilities as magicians by the Society’s members, which include Harold Lloyd, Edgar Bergen, and Chester Morris. Manny Harmon’s orchestra is featured in the Wilshire Ebell pit.
24 May 1964
dies in Los Angeles, California, after an extended battle against cancer. Her husband and three young daughters survive her. Barbara Stanwyck is made guardian of the three girls when Peter Godfrey becomes ill. Later one of the girls will have no kind words for Stanwyck, who she felt abandoned the girls after their mother died and their father became ill. Stanwyck refuses to return the girls’ phone calls, which in part is attributed to Stanwyck’s drinking problem.
4 March 1970
Peter Godfrey dies in Hollywood, California, at the Motion Picture Home. Three daughters survive him. The Godfreys’ combined illnesses left them broke.