circa. 1943
Stars Reveal Rift After Less Than a Year of Marraige
By Louella O. Parsons
Motion Picture Editor International
News Service
The widely publicized Ann Sheridan - George
Brent marriage of less than a year has ended.
In a broken voice yesterday George told this writer he and Ann
separated Sunday night.
"It is the last thing in the world I wanted," said George, "but
I don't see what I can do about it. She wants her freedom and
she is going to issue a statement explaining that our marriage
is finished."
Ann says that it is George who wants a separation and so she is
going to give it to him. I told her it sounded to me like a
lovers' quarrel and something which the two of them could
straighten out if they would just sit down and talk things over.
"Perhaps there will be a reconciliation, but I doubt it," Ann
said. "There doesn't seem a chance. I haven't seen George for a
month and Sunday night when we were together we had a big
misunderstanding and George said he wanted his freedom and so I
am giving it to him."
"Will you get a divorce?" I asked her. Ann said she didn't know.
George told me that he has been teaching flying everyday at
Oxnard but the he had been given the day off.
"I just couldn't work," he said, "I was too upset." But even
though he was in such an unhappy frame of mind he said he wanted
to protect Ann with whom he says he is still in love and always
will be.
I must say, even though I had heard rumors of battle from time
to time, I couldn't believe these two people, who seemed so
congenial and had been in love for the last three years, could
end their marriage that promised so well, in just a few hours
time.
The romance of Ann and George was front-page copy when they were
married January 5, 1942, at the home of George's sister, Mrs.
Sam Harris, in Florida. They flew out of Los Angeles in separate
planes, meeting there. Ann had told the studio she was on her
way to see her mother who was sick in Texas.
This is the second marriage for Ann and the third for George.
The red-headed oomph girl whom the Harvard Lampoon labelled "the
worst actress of the year," and lived to eat its words was
first married to Eddie Norris. George was once the husband of
Ruth Chatterton famed actress, and for a brief period he was
married to Constance Worth, also an actress.
Ann, who was ridiculed by so many of the critics when she first
started in movies, has made them all take back their criticisms,
especially since "Kings Row" when she all but stole the show.
She is one of Warners most valuable stars, in that she is
box-office.
George, too, has been on of Warners most important start but he
is giving it all up to go into the service. He has not yet been
drafted but he has a very strong conviction that a man's place
at this time is in Uncle Sam's service.
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