Barbara Payton(1927-1967)

In 1956 her ex-husband Payton accused her of neglecting their son, who had been living with Barbara since he was about four. A custody battle followed, with her ex-husband accusing her of exposing their son to "profane language, immoral conduct, notoriety, unwholesome activities, and no moral education." The judge ruled in favor of the boy's father and labeled Barbara as " . . . an unfit mother, not to mention a thoroughly confused and misguided young woman".

[poem] "Love is a memory. Time cannot kill the cherished tune, gay and absurd, and the music unheard."