(30 August 1962 - 3 March 1976) (his death)
December 61
signs a run-of-the-play contract for the London version of The Unsinkable Molly Brown. She says it doesn’t mean the end of her romance with composer Ray Gilbert. He will arrange to cross the Atlantic and work over there.
30 August 62
marries Ray Gilbert, the Hollywood composer and music publisher in Nice, France. He’s 50; she’s 39. She just finished a film on the Riviera.
Late September 62
she and her husband, Gilbert, return to Los Angeles
the Gilberts live in California but spend much time in Brazil, where she studies Portuguese
Early 70s
suffers a serious accident that causes a back injury and threatens her mobility
4 March 76
becomes the widow of Gilbert, who dies at age 64 from complications from open heart surgery after a long and happy union.