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(6 February 1970 - May 1970) (divorced)
Our marriage was so short, there's hardly anything to say, except that it was a mistake."
Thus Kim Darby, her lovely young face trying to be cheerful, but her eyes betraying a sense of sadness, summed up her brief second marriage to erstwhile actor James Westmoreland.
The marriage certainly was short--lasting from February 6 of this year until the last week in March. But why? Why should two young, attractive persons who seemed so completely sure of each other and their love decide so soon that there was no hope of their continuing as man and wife?
‘‘One of our problems was a lack of interest in the same things," Kim told me quietly, sitting in the living room of her home. "We are interested in exactly opposite things . . . and our values are so different. Politically, we are at opposite ends of the pole. And our tastes--everything--are not in the least bit compatible. Right away, we were growing apart, instead of together."
The very nature of their meeting and courtship, perhaps, caused Kim and Jamie (as she and her family call him) not to realize their vast differences before the wedding. The two had met less than a month before they said "I do." This is a short time under any circumstances, and even shorter under their particular situation. Kim was finishing a movie, and Westmoreland had to be out of town part of that time on business. Obviously, the newlyweds didn't get to spend too much time together.
They did not have enough time to discuss deeply, seriously and at great length many matters which were to prove disastrously divisive between them, once they were spending 24 hours a day under the same roof. But Kim and Jamie were young, fascinated with each other, and caught up head over heels in romantic rapture.