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...Jaded Asbestoscion Tommy Manville, 62, creaked into Manhattan from his suburban sanctuary to attend the wedding of his most recent (ninth) exwife, sometime Burlesqueen Anita Roddy-Eden, 34, and India-born Cinemactor John (Tonight We Raid Calais) Sutton. Making a grand entrance at the scene of the civil ceremony, a hotel library, Anita gazed fondly at her discarded mate and his successor, cooed: "Darlings, I want you both!" Quipped the groom: "Have you got an extra wedding ring, Tommy? I forgot mine." Later, Playboy Manville recalled the nuptials with elation: "It was the happiest day of my life-a wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...pensive mood at a dude ranch south of Reno, one of the age's most resolute fortune huntresses, Anita Roddy-Eden Manville, 32, ninth wife of burned-out (61) Asbestoscion Tommy Manville, airily counted her blessings. Of Tommy's divorce settlement offer of $260,000 in cash (tax free), plus other tokens of affection (jewelry, bonds, etc.), Anita cooed: "Wonderful, generous." A veritable seascape in her getup of fish-flecked sailcloth, a fishnet stole and assorted pearls. Anita announced, however, that she wants the exclusive right to pen Tommy's life story (tentative title: The Manville Myth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...only two U.S. playboys whose follies still seem like madcap hangovers from the Roaring Twenties are aging Asbestoscion Tommy Manville, due to turn 61 this week, and the heir apparent to the jester's cap, bibulous Sugar Daddy Adolph B. (Honey Dew) Spreckels II, 43. Last week both Manville and Spreckels, the veterans of a total of 15 marriages, 13 divorces, two separations, were entangled with the law and women as usual. In Manhattan, Playboy Manville, haled into court by wife No. 9, Anita Roddy-Eden Manville, and asked to prove that he is not worth at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...Minsky's burlesque house in Newark, N.J., where bumps and grinds have found refuge from Manhattan's clayfooted bluenoses, Mrs. Tommy Manville, 31, opened a one-week stand to supplement her income ($1,000 a week from Tommy). Asbestoscion Manville, 60, peevishly refusing to catch his estranged ninth wife's routine, snorted: "I haven't been to a burlesque for 46 years-and I won't start again with her stinky show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 23, 1954 | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...When Asbestoscion Tommy Manville, 58, decided that the time was ripe for his twelfth marriage (this time to Mrs. Lillian Bishop Alvear, 29-year-old divorcee and mother of two children), he found the process getting slightly more difficult. The city clerk in New Rochelle, N.Y. refused to sell him a license; but he was able to buy one in Greenwich, Conn., which requires a five-day wait. Then came bad news from Manhattan. Anita Frances Roddy-Eden Manville, his most recent wife, who bought a Mexican divorce last year, swallowed an overdose of sleeping pills when she heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 9, 1953 | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

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