(30 December 1961 - 30 December 1963) (divorced)
October 59 she and Bill Carter start that thing known as "First the Laughter and Then the Tears." Arthur William Carter is a part-time actor and freshly divorced from Trink Wiman Carter, the Deere farm machinery heiress. Their divorce was the talk of the town.
November 60 is expected to marry Bill Carter.
January 61
her fiancé, Bill Carter, flies to Yugoslavia to be with her
March 61
she and Carter are houseguests of Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe and his mother in Marbella, Spain, while she waits for the starting date of her Italian picture
30 December 61
marries Bill Carter in a civil ceremony in the town hall of Chiavenna, Italy
March 62
will do another Italian movie when she finishes her honeymoon in the Alps with Carter
May 62
her jewels are stolen from their hotel room in Rome the night before she and Carter leave for Beirut, Lebanon
June 62
she and Carter return from Rome. Her husband announces he will produce films with Stanley Rumbaugh, husband of socialite-actress Dina Merrill.
December 62
is seen with Carter at New York's fashionable El Morocco looking at actress Jill St. John and fashion designer Oleg Cassini doing the bossa nova
February 63
is in Los Angeles court again for the lawsuit against Appel and his former wife, Martha Lemaster. Elaine still claims $150,000 for the June 19, 1959, dog bite.
April 63
is seen at the Yankee Peddler Inn with Alfred Karlsen
July 63
wishes Carter would keep his pledge concerning the divorce
30 December 63
gets her divorce from Carter in Los Angeles on their second wedding anniversary. He's 45; she's 29. She testifies Carter was "given to violent rages," struck her, and several times tried to choke her. Asked about her husband's occupation, she says she had urged Carter to go to work, but: "He didn't come up with anything." Carter doesn’t contest her suit. Carter will die in 1995.