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Ladd married Marjorie Jane "Midge" Harrold, a high school sweetheart, in October 1936. Their only child, Alan Ladd, Jr., was born on October 22, 1937. They divorced in July 1941 and she died in 1957, having remarried. On March 15, 1942, Ladd married his agent and manager, former film actress Sue Carol in Mexico City.
Alan Walbridge Ladd Jr. (October 22, 1937 – March 2, 2022) was an American film industry executive and producer. He served as president of 20th Century Fox from 1976 to 1979, during which he approved the production of Star Wars, on his confidence of George Lucas, which proved well founded. He later established The Ladd Company and headed MGM/UA.
Alan Ladd. Actor: Shane. Alan Walbridge Ladd was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the only child of Ina Raleigh (aka Selina Rowley) and Alan Harwood Ladd, a freelance accountant. His mother was English, from County Durham. His father died when he was four. At age five, he burned his apartment playing with matches, and his mother moved them to Oklahoma City. He was malnourished, undersized and ...
- September 3, 1913
- January 29, 1964
Jun 18, 2023 · That same year, Ladd married his high school flame “Midge” Harrold”. “Three Hollywood Couples Wed Here…Alan W. Ladd, 23, actor, North Hollywood, and Marjorie Jane Harrold, 21, North Hollywood. Katherine L. Harrold and Carlton Gaello, were witnesses.” – The Ventura (Calif.) County Star-Free Press, May 11, 1937
Mar 11, 2023 · Published March 11, 2023. Marjorie Jane Harrold, a name that once shook the world of journalism, breathed her last on 25th February 2023. She was 78 years old and left behind a legacy that will never be forgotten. Marjorie was born on 23rd July 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, and was the only daughter of Charles and Margaret Harrold.
Dec 13, 2023 · Alan Ladd (1913–1964) aka: Alan Walbridge Ladd Jr. Alan Walbridge Ladd Jr., a native of Hot Springs (Garland County), was a movie actor who rose from poverty and starred in forty-seven films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s. He often portrayed a solitary hero with a conscience and is best known for his title role in the classic western Shane ...
Ladd’s streak of good luck continued and, in October of 1936, he married Marjorie Jane Harrold. A year later, in 1937, the couple gave birth to their first child, Alan Ladd, II. Ladd’s early film work consisted of mostly minor parts, such as the role of a reporter in Orson Welles’ 1941 classic, Citizen Kane .
