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Married. Tyrone Power, 44, cinemactor (The Sun Also Rises); and Mrs. Deborah Montgomery Minardos, 26, sleek, brunette stepdaughter of a well-heeled Southern businessman; he for the third time (No. 1, French Actress Annabella; No. 2, International Playgirl Linda Christian), she for the second; in Tunica, Miss...
...acting is generally overacting. Among the few who were exceptions to the general awkwardness was Ann Brennan, whose nearly perfect performance of Annabella was often a saving grace for the play. Thomas Lumbard lived up to a small part with dignity, and James Swan, Gerald Malone, and William Bruckner were usually respectable. Benette Schultz played the juicy role of a maid with an occasional flair...
...Windows. Back home, Byron plunged into a round of affairs with the most famous beauties in England. After four years of it, he married Annabella Milbanke, the cousin of Lord Melbourne, "the most silent woman I ever encountered," he wrote with some concern. "I like them to talk, because then they think less." His wedding, however, "went off very pleasantly, all but the [kneeling] cushions, which were stuffed with peach-stones, I believe, and made me make a face which passed for piety." In the next year Byron lived in a peace of spirit that is most purely appreciable...
Then the marriage exploded in one of the worst scandals of the age. Annabella left Byron, and the word went around that she had discovered a love affair between her husband and his half-sister. A storm of public opinion drove Byron out of England, never to return. In Italy, he settled down as the lover of a draper's wife, Marianna Segati, wrote much verse (including most of his masterpiece, Don Juan) and many disgusted letters back to England about "the destruction with which my moral Clytemnestra hewed me down." But women he could not escape. They choked...
...Power had been baptized and brought up as a member of the Roman Catholic Church, which regards his 1939 civil marriage to French Actress Annabella as invalid...