She was 18 when she married the 36-year-old actor
Franchot Tone. They later had a bitter divorce. She lost custody of their two children after he claimed she was romantically involved with shady mobster Johnny Stompanato (1925-1958), who later was stabbed to death in self defense by
Lana Turner's daughter Cheryl Crane. Amazingly, after their custody battle she and Tone went off and appeared together in the films
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) and
Jigsaw (1949). She re-won custody of the children in 1951, after her more stable marriage to
Cornel Wilde.
