Cooper was formally introduced to his future wife, 20-year-old New York debutante Veronica Balfe, on Easter Sunday 1933 at a party given by her uncle, art director Cedric Gibbons. Called "Rocky" by her family and friends, she grew up on Park Avenue and attended finishing schools. Her stepfather was Wall Street tycoon Paul Shields. Cooper and Rocky were quietly married at her parents' Park Avenue residence on December 15, 1933. According to his friends, the marriage had a positive impact on Cooper, who turned away from past indiscretions and took control of his life. Athletic and a lover of the outdoors, Rocky shared many of Cooper's interests, including riding, skiing, and skeet-shooting.
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Cooper was formally introduced to his future wife, 20-year-old New York debutante Veronica Balfe, on Easter Sunday 1933 at a party given by her uncle, art director Cedric Gibbons. Called "Rocky" by her family and friends, she grew up on Park Avenue and attended finishing schools. Her stepfather was Wall Street tycoon Paul Shields. Cooper and Rocky were quietly married at her parents' Park Avenue residence on December 15, 1933. According to his friends, the marriage had a positive impact on Cooper, who turned away from past indiscretions and took control of his life. Athletic and a lover of the outdoors, Rocky shared many of Cooper's interests, including riding, skiing, and skeet-shooting.
Gary Cooper | Marriage and family
Balfe married actor Gary Cooper on December 15, 1933, at her mother's home at 778 Park Avenue, New York; the wedding had been planned for the Waldorf Astoria hotel, but the location was probably changed to avoid public attention. In 1937, Balfe gave birth to their daughter, Maria Veronica Cooper. Following Cooper's death, Balfe married John Converse in 1964. She was an enthusiastic sportswoman and was the female California skeet champion in the 1930s. She also enjoyed golf, swimming, tennis, and scuba-diving. She and her daughter were both devout Catholics.
Veronica Cooper | Personal life
She organized their social life, and her wealth and social connections provided Cooper access to New York high society. Cooper and his wife owned homes in the Los Angeles area in Encino (1933–36), Brentwood (1936–53), and Holmby Hills (1954–61), and owned a vacation home in Aspen, Colorado (1949–53). Gary and Veronica Cooper's daughter, Maria Veronica Cooper, was born on September 15, 1937. By all accounts, he was a patient and affectionate father, teaching Maria to ride a bicycle, play tennis, ski, and ride horses. Sharing many of her parents' interests, she accompanied them on their travels and was often photographed with them.
Gary Cooper | Marriage and family
Like her father, she developed a love for art and drawing. As a family they vacationed together in Sun Valley, Idaho, spent time at Rocky's parents' country house in Southampton, New York, and took frequent trips to Europe. Cooper and Rocky were legally separated on May 16, 1951, when Cooper moved out of their home. For over two years, they maintained a fragile and uneasy family life with their daughter. Cooper moved back into their home in November 1953, and their formal reconciliation occurred in February 1954.
Gary Cooper | Marriage and family
In 1948, after finishing work on "The Fountainhead", Cooper began an affair with actress Patricia Neal, his co-star. At first they kept their affair discreet, but eventually it became an open secret in Hollywood, and Cooper's wife confronted him with the rumors, which he admitted were true. He also confessed that he was in love with Neal, and continued to see her. Cooper and his wife were legally separated in May 1951, but he did not seek a divorce. Neal later claimed that Cooper hit her after she went on a date with Kirk Douglas, and that he arranged for her to have an abortion when she became pregnant with Cooper's child.
Gary Cooper | Romantic relationships
In 1930, Gibbons married actress Dolores del Río and co-designed their house with Douglas Honnold in Santa Monica, an intricate Art Deco residence influenced by Rudolf Schindler. They divorced in 1941. In October 1944, he married actress Hazel Brooks, with whom he remained until his death. Gibbons niece Veronica "Rocky" Balfe was Gary Cooper's wife and briefly an actress known as Sandra Shaw. Gibbons' second cousin Frederick "Royal" Gibbons—a musician, orchestra conductor, and entertainer who worked with him at MGM—was the father of Billy Gibbons of the rock band ZZ Top.
Cedric Gibbons | Personal life and death
Veronica Cooper (née Balfe; May 27, 1913 – February 16, 2000) was an American actress who appeared in "The Gay Nighties" under the name Sandra Shaw. She was the wife of the actor Gary Cooper and mother of painter Maria Cooper Janis.
Veronica Cooper | Introduction
In later life, he became involved in a relationship with the costume designer, Irene, and was, according to Irene, "the only man she ever loved". A year after his death in 1961, Irene committed suicide by jumping from the 11th floor of the Knickerbocker Hotel, after telling Doris Day of her grief over Cooper's death.
Gary Cooper | Romantic relationships
During their two years together, Cooper also had brief affairs with Marlene Dietrich while filming "Morocco" in 1930 and with Carole Lombard while making "I Take This Woman" in 1931. During his year abroad in 1931–32, Cooper had an affair with the married Countess Dorothy di Frasso, while staying at her Villa Madama near Rome. After he was married in December 1933, Cooper remained faithful to his wife until the summer of 1942, when he began an affair with Ingrid Bergman during the production of "For Whom the Bell Tolls". Their relationship lasted through the completion of filming "Saratoga Trunk" in June 1943.
Gary Cooper | Romantic relationships
In 1957 Cooper married Cynthia Mary Hume and they had one son and one daughter.
George Cooper (British Army officer) | Family
He was married with four children.
Gary Flakne | Introduction
Neal ended their relationship in late December 1951. During his three-year separation from his wife, Cooper was rumored to have had affairs with Grace Kelly, Lorraine Chanel, and Gisèle Pascal. Cooper biographers have explored his friendship in the late twenties with the actor Anderson Lawler, with whom Cooper shared a house on and off for a year, while at the same time seeing Clara Bow, Evelyn Brent and Lupe Vélez. Lupe Vélez once told Hedda Hopper of Velez' affair with Cooper, whenever he would come home after seeing Lawler, she would sniff for Lawler's cologne. Velez' biographer Michelle Vogel has reported that Velez consented to Cooper's sexual behavior with Lawler, but only as long as she, too, could participate.
Gary Cooper | Romantic relationships
Since 1973 Wilde has been married to Carol McLean Wilde. They have several children.
Gary Wilde | Family
He was married to Jenice Heo.
Gary Burden | Personal life
Prior to his marriage, Cooper had a series of romantic relationships with leading actresses, beginning in 1927 with Clara Bow, who advanced his career by helping him get one of his first leading roles in "Children of Divorce". Bow was also responsible for getting Cooper a role in "Wings", which generated an enormous amount of fan mail for the young actor. In 1928, he had a relationship with another experienced actress, Evelyn Brent, whom he met while filming "Beau Sabreur". In 1929, while filming "The Wolf Song", Cooper began an intense affair with Lupe Vélez, which was the most important romance of his early life.
Gary Cooper | Romantic relationships
From 1997 to 2001, Oldman was married to model Donya Fiorentino, with whom he had two sons: Gulliver (born 1997) and Charlie (born 1999). On 31 December 2008, Oldman married English singer and actress Alexandra Edenborough in Santa Barbara, California. Edenborough filed for divorce on 9 January 2015; the divorce was finalised in September 2015. In August 2017, Oldman married writer and art curator Gisele Schmidt in a private ceremony at the home of his manager, Douglas Urbanski.
Gary Oldman | Marriages and family
He was married on January 20, 2006 to Lindsay Marie Wagener.
Cooper Brannan | Personal life
On December 27, his wife learned from their family doctor that Cooper's cancer had spread to his lungs and bones and was inoperable. His family decided not to tell him immediately. On January 9, 1961, Cooper attended a dinner that was given in his honor and hosted by Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin at the Friars Club. The dinner was attended by many of his industry friends and concluded with a brief speech by Cooper who said, "The only achievement I'm proud of is the friends I've made in this community."
Gary Cooper | Final years and death
Cooper was first married to Storris Warinner and they divorced after 21 years of marriage. She was then married to Charles Cooper for 14 years before her death.
Ann Lewis Cooper | Family
Upon selling his businesses he became involved in local politics. Gary is married to Sherry (Moore), a Mesa, Arizona native, since 1973. They have four sons. He is Mormon.
Gary Pierce | Personal life
He married Barbara Mary Harding‑Newman; they had one son, Major General Sir Simon Cooper.
Kenneth Cooper (British Army officer) | Family
Cooper married Louis J. Blaker, a childhood friend, on September 15, 1880. The couple had no children. He died of a heart attack in 1913.
Eliza Cooper Blaker | Marriage family
Cooper was baptized in the Anglican Church in December 1911 in Britain, and was raised in the Episcopal Church in the United States. While he was not an observant Christian for most of his adult life, many of his friends believed he had a deeply spiritual side. On June 26, 1953, Cooper accompanied his wife and daughter, who were devout Catholics, to Rome, where they had an audience with Pope Pius XII. Cooper and his wife were still separated at the time, but the papal visit marked the beginning of their gradual reconciliation. In the coming years, Cooper contemplated his mortality and his personal behavior, and started discussing Catholicism with his family.
Gary Cooper | Religion
O'Neil is married to Donna Guerin, whom he married in 2006.
Gary O'Neil | Personal life
Gary's first wife was the British writer, journalist, and "Vogue" editor Lesley Blanch, author of "The Wilder Shores of Love". They married in 1944 and divorced in 1961. From 1962 to 1970, Gary was married to American actress Jean Seberg, with whom he had a son, Alexandre Diego Gary. According to Diego Gary, he was a distant presence as a father: "Even when he was around, my father wasn't there. Obsessed with his work, he used to greet me, but he was elsewhere." After learning that Jean Seberg had an affair with Clint Eastwood, Gary challenged him to a duel, but Eastwood declined.
Romain Gary | Personal life and final years
Cooper was married to his wife Janelle for 64 years. They had three daughters. He died at his home on September 25, 2006, at the age of 86.
Jeff Cooper | Personal life
Gary currently lives in Utah with his wife April and their 4 children, Taylor, Nikki, Camden and Shea. Camden and Shea are named for MLB ballparks, Camden Yards (Baltimore) and Shea Stadium (New York).
Gary Cooper (third baseman) | After baseball
He is married to Lynn Cohen, and lives in Connecticut. He has five children.
Gary Cohen | Personal life
Previts is married to Frances Anne (Porubsky)a graduate of Notre Dame College, South Euclid, Ohio. They have four adult children and eleven grandchildren.
Gary John Previts | Personal
Cooper studied journalism at New York University. He was married to Gina Pia Bandini, an independent television production coordinator and production assistant, in his New York home in 1990. The couple later divorced in 2004.
Dan Cooper | Personal life
He was formerly married to Australian long jumper Nicole Boegman. He is currently married to British sprinter Linda Keough.
Gary Staines | Personal life
During the filming of "The Fountainhead" (1949), Neal began an affair with her married co-star Gary Cooper, whom she had met in 1947 when she was 21 and he was 46. At one point in their relationship, Cooper hit her in the face after he caught Kirk Douglas trying to seduce her. Cooper persuaded her to have an abortion when she became pregnant with his child. Neal met British writer Roald Dahl at a dinner party hosted by Lillian Hellman in 1951 while she was in London to film "The Hasty Heart" starring Ronald Reagan. They married on July 2, 1953 at Trinity Church in New York.
Patricia Neal | Personal life
They remained married until Cooper's death in 1991.
Brenda Lewis | Other work and later life
They have since divorced. He married model Danette Day on November 28, 1998, in South Carolina and they divorced in June 1999. His third wife, Angela (whom he wed on June 5, 2001), died by suicide on October 25, 2004.
Gary Allan | Personal life
Christy was married to Bob Cooper in 1947. In 1954, she gave birth to a daughter, Shay Christy Cooper (September 1, 1954February 21, 2014). She had one brother Jack A. Luster (1920-2013).
June Christy | Personal life
Cole married actress Teddi Siddall on March 8, 1992. Their daughter Mary is pursuing an acting career. On June 19, 2017, Siddall filed for divorce. Siddall died in 2018.
Gary Cole | Personal life
Leo married the author Jilly Cooper in 1961 following the break-up of his first marriage to Diana his former housemaster's daughter. The couple had known each other since 1945 (when Jilly Sallitt was about eight), although they did not marry until she was 24 and he was 27. In the 1980s, the couple left Putney, London for The Chantry, an old manor house in Gloucestershire. The couple were unable to have children naturally so adopted two children. They also had five grandchildren. Cooper had an affair for several years with publisher Sarah Johnson, greatly disrupting the Coopers' marriage when this was revealed in 1990, though they got back together later.
Leo Cooper | Personal life
He sits on several boards of conservation organizations. As detailed in his writings, he married at a young age and had a family, but he was divorced in the late 1980s, later marrying a second time, this time with Caroline Wilson in the early 1990s. He is currently married to his third wife, Laurie Monti (formerly of Northern Arizona University) and lives near Patagonia, Arizona on a five-acre homestead to the southwest of town. He farms a diverse set of heirloom fruit and nut varieties from the Spanish Mission era and from the Middle Eastern homelands of his Lebanese ancestors, as well as heritage grains and beans adapted to arid climates.
Gary Paul Nabhan | Background
In November 1983, at the height of Cooper's alcoholism, Goddard filed for divorce, but by mid-1984, she and Cooper had reconciled. The couple have three children: daughters Sonora and Calico, and son Dashiell. In a 2002 television interview, Cooper stated that he had never cheated on his wife the entire time they had been together. In the same interview, he also said that the secret to a lasting and successful relationship is to continue going out on dates with one's partner.
Alice Cooper | Marriage and relationships
He is married to fellow two-time Olympic bronze medallist Heather Hunte.
Gary Oakes | Personal life
In 1880, Cooper married Rosa Leonardi. They had two children, Charles Philip and James Jackson Gignilliat.
Charles Merian Cooper | Personal life
Connery was married to Vivienne, a café owner in Henley-on-Thames, and they have one child.
Gary Connery | Family life
Shore married his long time friend Ciara Cullen in October 2014.
Gary Shore | Personal life
Taylor has been married and divorced twice. He has two grown daughters and three grandsons from the second marriage, which figured prominently as a prelude to his ill-fated 1979 relationship with Mehaffey.
Gary Taylor (journalist) | Family life
He also later had a relationship with Cathy. During a moment of weakness, Gary had a one night stand with his ex-wife, Val, and she became pregnant with twins, but Gary assumed that Val's fiancé and future husband, Ben Gibson, was the father. Val eventually named her twin babies as Bobby and Betsy in the 1985–86 season, after Gary's late brother Bobby and Ben Gibson's mother Betsy. Gary's marriage to Abby eventually broke down, and he got engaged to Jill Bennett, who later tried to kill Val. Gary and Val eventually reunited again, 8 years after their second divorce. Gary and Val also lived together with their children, Bobby and Betsy, for the first time, going on to marry each other for the third time in 1991 (Gary's fourth marriage, and Valene's fifth).
Gary Ewing | "Knots Landing"
Cooper married Elizabeth Oldfield, daughter of John Oldfield, fishmonger and sugar refiner of London, in July 1647. They had two sons and six daughters.
George Cooper (Poole MP) | Family
Buckley married Frances Kingsbury Littlefield in 1945. They were the parents of five children, four sons and one daughter. For many years Buckley and his family resided in the home that had originally been built by Isaac Tichenor in the late 1700s. After the death of his first wife, Buckley was married successively to Barbara Morgan, Patricia Mann, and Hesterley Black.
T. Garry Buckley | Family
She is married to Gary Lane.
Nancy Lane | Personal life
Sebelius married his wife, Kathleen Sebelius on New Year's Eve 1974. They have two sons.
K. Gary Sebelius | Personal
Robert Slatzer (who later claimed to have been secretly married to Marilyn Monroe) claimed that a few weeks before Vélez's death, he interviewed her at her home and she confided in him that she was pregnant with Gary Cooper's child (by that time, Cooper was married to socialite Veronica "Rocky" Balfe). According to Slatzer, Vélez said that Cooper refused to acknowledge the child, believing that Harald Ramond was the father. After Vélez died, Slatzer said he asked Cooper about the situation and Cooper confirmed that it was possible he might have been the father. Slatzer further claimed that he also interviewed Clara Bow (who had also dated Cooper in the 1920s), who revealed that shortly before Vélez's death, Cooper called her and screamed that he was going to kill Harald Ramond for impregnating Vélez.
Lupe Vélez | Alternate theories and urban legend
Cooper was married to Joy and they have four children together. They separated in 2008 after 25 years of marriage. In 2008, he stepped down as Bishop of St David's because of allegations that he had been having an affair with his chaplain, Mandy Williams-Potter. They both denied the affair. Williams-Potter had been married to her husband for 15 years and they had had two children together, before splitting in 2008.
Carl Cooper | Personal life
Cooper served in the United States Navy during World War II and remained active in the Naval Reserve for the next several decades, reaching the rank of captain. He was married to June Horne from 1944 until 1949, with whom he had a son, John "Jack" Cooper, III, who was born in 1946. June was the daughter of director James W. Horne and actress Cleo Ridgely. Cooper was married to Hildy Parks from 1950 until 1951, and to Barbara Rae Kraus from 1954 until her death in 2009. Cooper and Kraus had three children, Russell, born in 1956, Julie, born in 1957, and Cristina, born in 1959.
Jackie Cooper | Personal life
From 1998 to 2001 Stretch was married to actress Roselyn Sánchez.
Gary Stretch | Personal life
Howerton was married to actress Linda Gary until Gary's death in October 1995. They married on December 21, 1967 and had two daughters, Dana and Alexis. Linda Gary was also stepmother to Howerton's daughter from his previous marriage, Lynn Howerton.
Charles Howerton | Personal life
He's just too good to be true." They saw each other often, and their friendship remained strong through the years. Cooper's social life generally centered on sports, outdoor activities, and dinner parties with his family and friends from the film industry, including directors Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, William Wellman, and Fred Zinnemann, and actors Joel McCrea, James Stewart, Barbara Stanwyck, and Robert Taylor. As well as hunting, Cooper enjoyed riding, fishing, skiing, and later in life, scuba diving. He never abandoned his early love for art and drawing, and over the years, he and his wife acquired a private collection of modern paintings, including works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, and Georgia O'Keeffe.
Gary Cooper | Friendships, interests, and character
Dayton married Lucinda H. Harrison and they had children together.
Amos Cooper Dayton | Marriage and family
Holton had a string of relationships in the early to mid 1970s. In 1977, he dated singer Stella Palmer, with whom he performed his cover version of "Somethin' Stupid" in 1973. Holton and Palmer got engaged on 12 March 1977, but on 2 May the same year, Palmer called off the engagement, stating their relationship was not going quite as planned. From 1979 he was married to model Donna Campbell. They were amicably separated from 1981 and remained friends, though they were still not divorced at the time of his death. After Donna, Holton had a relationship with model Susan Harrison who gave birth to his son Red, in 1983.
Gary Holton | Relationships
Brooks subsequently married Dr. Rex Ross (1908-1999), a surgeon and founder of the Non-invasive Vascular Clinic at Hollywood Hospital. According to long-time friend Maria Cooper Janis, Gary Cooper's daughter, Ross in the years after her retirement from films became a skilled still photographer. She also worked actively for a number of children's charities.
Hazel Brooks | Career
Fagence Cooper lives near York and is married to John Cooper. They have two daughters, Rosalind and Beatrice.
Suzanne Fagence Cooper | Personal life
Gary Gray was married to Jean Charlene Bean and had 4 children.
Gary Gray (actor) | Personal Life
In January, 1987, they had a daughter, Ashley. Near the end of 1987, Dardanes requested a divorce. She filed the formal paperwork in April 1989.
Gary Dotson | Personal background
Gary Guglielmi later married the widow of Billy Sanders.
Gary Guglielmi | Personal life
In 1852 he married Susannah Towers (d.1887). His second wife, Mabel, died in 1931.
Charles Alfred Cooper | Family
In 1961, she married Leo Cooper, a publisher of military history books. The couple had known each other since 1945 (when Jilly Sallitt was about eight), although they did not marry until she was 24 and he was 27. The couple were unable to have children naturally so adopted two children. They also have five grandchildren. The Coopers' marriage was greatly disrupted in 1990 when publisher Sarah Johnson revealed she and Leo had had an affair for several years, though Jilly and Leo got back together later. In the 1980s, the couple left Putney, London for The Chantry, an old manor house in Gloucestershire.
Jilly Cooper | Personal life
Kelly married Gary Clark, a local orthodontist, on 5 December 1998. They have two children, Dominique and Lachlan.
Jackie Kelly | Personal life
Janetti divides his time between Los Angeles and New York City. He is married to his longtime partner, TV personality Brad Goreski.
Gary Janetti | Personal life
He married Candy Davis in 1985; they later divorced. He married Australian second wife Jane Anthony in 1991 and had two children. After a ten-month illness with cancer, Olsen died in Victoria, Australia, where he had emigrated following his diagnosis. He was 42 years old.
Gary Olsen | Personal life
Yes, some stayed celibate for a time. Some even married and said they were happy. But most of those marriages ended with very painful divorces."
Exodus International | Michael Bussee and Gary Cooper
Powers and his wife Barbara separated in 1962 and divorced in January 1963. Powers stated that the reasons for the divorce included her infidelity and alcoholism, adding that she constantly threw tantrums and overdosed on pills shortly after his return. He started a relationship with Claudia Edwards "Sue" Downey, whom he had met while working briefly at CIA Headquarters. Downey had a child, Dee, from her previous marriage. They were married on October 26, 1963. Their son Francis Gary Powers II was born on June 5, 1965. The marriage proved to be a very happy one, and Sue worked hard to preserve her husband's legacy after his death.
Francis Gary Powers | Divorce and remarriage
She is married to Gary Greco, and they live in Woodbridge, Connecticut.
Suzanne Greco | Personal life
About 1738 Cooper married Ann Lind, by whom he left a son, Richard Cooper the younger, who followed his father's profession.
Richard Cooper, the elder | Family
Woolsey married Marie Tooker in 1977. They had three children.
Gary Woolsey | Personal life
Gary married entertainment industry executive Sidney Sheinberg on August 19, 1956 at the age of 19, with whom she has two sons named Jonathan J. and William David. She retired from acting after her appearance in the film "1941" (1979), only returning to reprise the role of Ellen Brody in "" (1987). Her sons, Bill Sheinberg and Jonathan Sheinberg, are both film producers.
Lorraine Gary | Personal life
In 1985, Lillibridge married Catherine DeForrest. Together they have three children: Sarah, Amy, and Thomas.
Gary Lillibridge | Personal life
Cohn is married to Lisa Pevaroff-Cohn. They have three daughters, and reside in New York City.
Gary Cohn | Personal life
Shapiro divorced and later remarried. He has two sons with his second wife, Susan Malinowski, and two sons from a previous marriage.
Gary Shapiro | Family
As part of her career, Cooper moved in celebrity circles. At various times she dated television personality Allen Funt, writer Jerzy Kosinski, and author Ira Levin. Cooper married television producer Paul Noble on May 17, 1988. They live in Palm Beach, Florida with their two shih-tzus. The couple have authored four books together. Cooper's sister Suzy now lives in New York. She has two children, named after their parents.
Paulette Cooper | Personal life
Franks married Donna Williams in 1990; they have two daughters and a son. He is a Baptist.
Gary Franks | Personal life
In 1990, she married Gary Alan Wallis; they had one son and one daughter.
Jane Packer | Family
This always left me feeling abandoned and invisible; love that could be quenched was not nearly enough love for me". Gilbert was married to Michael Cooper, whom she met while working at the Coyote Ugly Saloon, from 1994 to 2002. The marriage ended when Gilbert left Cooper for another man. In 2007, Gilbert married José Nunes, whom she met in Bali while on the travels she describes in "Eat, Pray, Love". Gilbert and Nunes lived in Frenchtown, New Jersey; together they ran a large Asian import store called Two Buttons until they sold it in 2015.
Elizabeth Gilbert | Personal life
In 1928 he married the actress Gladys Cooper, but divorced her in 1936.
Neville Pearson | Introduction
Burghoff was married to Janet Gayle from 1971 to 1979. They had one child, born in 1975. In 1985, he married Elisabeth Bostrom. The couple had two children and divorced in 2005.
Gary Burghoff | Personal life
Alicia married Gary Benz on April 24, 1994, and they divorced in 2016.
Ana Alicia | Family
Locke's first marriage, to a law school classmate, ended with a divorce in the 1970s. On October 15, 1994, Locke married Mona Lee, a television reporter for the NBC affiliate KING 5 television in Seattle and former Miss Asian America 15 years his junior. They divorced in 2015. Lee's parents immigrated to the United States from Taiwan, and their ancestral roots in Mainland China include Shanghai (paternal) and Hubei (maternal). Mona Lee's father Larry has a half-sister Nora Sun, daughter of Sun Fo and granddaughter of Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China. The Lockes have three children: Emily Nicole (b.
Gary Locke | Personal life
Brevoort is married to the actor Chuck Cooper.
Deborah Brevoort | Personal life
He married Katherine Lemoine Fenimore Cooper, a second great granddaughter of James Fenimore Cooper, in 1954. They had two daughters:
William L. Cary | Family
Craig Slaff married Carol Goodwin. They have three children.
Craig Slaff | Family
He is married to fellow Irish international bowler Donna McNally and they run the Ballybrakes bowls shop within the Ballybrakes Community Bowls Club.
Gary McCloy | Personal life
Hollywood has a son named Zachary to Anne Haney a childhood love. He married Sharon Mudie in 2003, with whom he has two children, Jack and Charlie. They divorced in 2017. Hollywood remarried Cherylanne in 2018 and they have a son Oliver.
Gary Hollywood | Personal life
Elliot is credited with encouraging his grandmother to write the most recent "Fudge" books. Shortly after her separation, she met Thomas A. Kitchens, a physicist. The couple married in 1976, and they moved to New Mexico for Kitchens' work. They divorced in 1979. She later spoke about their split: "It was a disaster, a total disaster. After a couple years, I got out. I cried every day. Anyone who thinks my life is cupcakes is all wrong." A mutual friend introduced her to George Cooper, a former law professor turned non-fiction writer. Blume and Cooper were married in 1987. Cooper has one daughter, Amanda, from a previous marriage.
Judy Blume | Marriages and family
On October 26, 1936, in Las Vegas, Post married the British actress Lillian Kemble-Cooper. This union lasted for over thirty years and only ended with his death in Los Angeles at the age of 92.
Guy Bates Post | Personal life
Vélez was involved in several highly publicized and often stormy relationships. Upon arriving in Los Angeles, she was linked to actors Tom Mix, Charlie Chaplin and Clark Gable. Her first long-term, high-profile relationship was with Gary Cooper. Vélez and Cooper met while filming 1929s "Wolf Song" and began a two-year relationship that was passionate and often stormy. When angered, Vélez was reported to have physically assaulted Cooper. Cooper eventually ended the relationship in mid-1931, at the behest of his mother Alice who after meeting her, strongly disapproved of Vélez. With plans to marry him gone, she spoke to the press in 1931: "I turned Cooper down because his parents didn't want me to marry him and because the studio thought it would injure his career.
Lupe Vélez | Relationships and marriage
Collins was first married to Susan Peterson, with whom he had two children: Guy William and Melissa Collins. They divorced. In 1967, Collins married Mary Ann Mobley, Miss America (1959). They had one child, a daughter, Mary Clancy Collins. They separated in 2011, but reconciled. He moved to her home state of Mississippi to be with her in 2012 while she battled breast cancer. Collins died around 1:00 am on October 13, 2012, at Biloxi Regional Medical Center in Biloxi, Mississippi, of natural causes.
Gary Collins (actor) | Personal life and death
Johnson was married to his college girlfriend, Dee Johnson (née Simms; 1952–2006) from 1977 to 2005. As First Lady of New Mexico, she engaged in campaigns against smoking and for breast cancer awareness and oversaw the expansion of the Governor's Mansion. He initiated a separation in May 2005, and four months later announced that they would divorce. At the age of 54, Dee Johnson died unexpectedly on December 22, 2006, her cause of death later attributed to hypertensive heart disease. The couple had two children, now adults. He also has a granddaughter, Cora, through his son Erik. Johnson was an avid triathlete who biked extensively.
Gary Johnson | Personal life
B. R. Cooper died in 1897, she married James Joseph Hughes of San Francisco in about 1918.
John B. R. Cooper | Final years
Gary is the son of famed WWII navigator, Tom Griffin (aviator), a member of the Doolittle Raiders, and has been married since 2011 to Elizabeth Fogle Griffin.
Gary Griffin (musician) | Family
Taylor married Alice Tucker Jones, June 28, 1933 and together had two sons. After her death in 1969, he married Ann Gary on June 12, 1971.
George A. Taylor (bishop) | Family
While working in Washington, D.C., Cooper ran into Jon Huntsman, Jr., who was part of Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign, and the couple began dating seriously. They married in 1983 and have seven children: Mary Anne (b. 1985), Abigail (b. 1986), Elizabeth "Liddy" (b. 1988), Jon III (b. 1990), William (b. 1993), Gracie Mei (b. 1999; adopted from China), and Asha Bharati (b. 2006; adopted from India). Her two sons, Jon III and William, are currently active duty Naval Officers.
Mary Kaye Huntsman | Marriage and children
Tomei is married to Gary Michael, and the couple have 17 children, step children, and foster children.
Carolyn Tomei | Personal
Kohlman is currently married to Washington, D.C. based attorney, Lesley Zork. He has four children, Jake, Becca, Abby, and Jessie Ann Kohlman.
Gary Kohlman | Personal life