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What Hollywood knew about Paul Bern made his suicide last week even more amazing than his marriage to Jean Harlow who, daughter of a Kansas City dentist, was christened Harlean Carpenter; married at 16 to a young Chicago broker named Charles Freemont McGrew II, divorced three years later after he had accused her of posing nude for photographers; and ballyhooed into a $1,250-a-week star when Producer Howard Hughes decided that her silvery blonde hair and peculiarly voluptuous physique might be even more profitable elements in his $4,000,000 Hell's Angels than burning airplanes...
...funds. Into the Hollywood mystery was injected the new question : Was Paul Bern ever married to Dorothy Millette? And was his marriage to Jean Harlow therefore bigamous? A New York lawyer said he had a will made out by Paul Bern in favor of Mrs. Dorothy Bern. An insurance broker said that ten years ago "Bern told me of his wife who was then ... an inmate of an institution for the insane in New York State." Paul Bern's brother Henry, who flew from Newark to Hollywood to attend the inquest, declared that Miss Millette had been a sanitarium...
Married. Cathleen Vanderbilt Gushing, 30, daughter of the late Reginald Vanderbilt, just divorced from Harry Cooke Gushing III, Manhattan broker; and Lawrence Wise Lowman, vice president of Columbia Broadcasting System; in Hempstead...
Married. John Harriman, 27, son of Broker Oliver Harriman; and Mrs. Margaret Case Morgan, 28, onetime associate editor of Vanity Fair, daughter of Proprietor Frank Manning Case of Manhattan's literary Hotel Algonquin; in New London, Conn...
Divorced. Cathleen Vanderbilt Gushing, 30, daughter of the late Reginald Vanderbilt; and Harry Cooke Gushing III. Manhattan broker; in Las Vegas...