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Divorced. By Arlene Dahl, 39, Hollywood's ever glowing redhead (Kisses for My President): Christian Holmes, 41, wealthy real estate speculator; after four years of marriage, one child; on grounds of mental cruelty (he preferred golf); in Santa Monica, Calif...
Poor old Fred. As a husband he minds, but as a citizen he is too patriotic to protest. He tries to take refuge in reading, but finds himself eagerly perusing The Making of the President. He pursues a practical solution (Arlene Dahl) to his problem but finds that a man with two women is a man with two bosses. In the end, he takes a stand against petticoat government, reasserts himself as the master of the White House and makes the President pregnant. Unable to carry a child and the burdens of office, she resigns...
Born. To Patricia Neal, 38, Academy Award-winning cinemactress for her portrait of the housekeeper in Hud, and Roald Dahl, 47, British author of deftly ghoulish short stories: their third child, second daughter; in Oxford, England. Name: Ophelia...
...Buckinghamshire, England. "We have central heating," she says proudly, "and two cans." The house is surrounded by 200 rosebushes, all tended by a very tall gardener with thorn scratches on his hands and a look of perdurable tweed. This turns out to be Patricia Neal's husband, Roald Dahl, whose dry and shivery stories have been collected in volumes called Someone Like You and Kiss Kiss...
Disaster & Victory. She made roughly a dozen more movies in the years after the affair ended, including The Hasty Heart and The Breaking Point, before going back to Broadway in 1952 to do a revival of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour. She met Dahl at Lillian Hellman's apartment; they were married in 1953. Their marriage has succeeded to a degree that few marriages do, and it has been touched as well with tragedy that few have to endure. On a trip to New York in 1960 to do a small part in Breakfast...