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During the months of her illness, she was attended to by Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, whom she married on June 29, 1931. That year, she starred as Nancy Gibson in Smart Woman , playing a woman determined to retrieve her husband from a gold-digging flirtation.
- Franklyn Thorpe read about Mary Astor's affair with a famous playwright. By 1936, Astor and Thorpe, a physician, had been married five years and shared a daughter, Marylyn.
- For revenge, Franklyn Thorpe blackmailed Mary Astor. Thorpe demanded Astor give him sole custody of Marylyn, half of Astor's house, and control of her finances.
- Mary Astor put everything on the line for her child. But Thorpe didn't stop there. For the next 15 months, whenever he and Astor clashed, he threatened to take Marylyn away.
- The press reported that Mary Astor’s diary was written in purple ink. The diaries were the focus of the custody trial. Thorpe's lawyer announced that they would "split the movie industry wide open" because Astor "experimented with love as a scientist experiments with test tubes."
Sep 14, 2016 · The scandal revolved around Mary’s diary, which her ex-husband—Franklyn Thorpe, a Hollywood doctor—had found when they were still married. Its incriminating contents had forced Mary to give up...
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Aug 12, 2006 · Aug. 12, 1936: A sensational court case came to an end when actress Mary Astor and Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, her surgeon ex-husband, agreed on joint custody of their 4-year-old daughter, Marylyn....
Jul 5, 2018 · Just over a year later Astor married Dr. Franklyn Thorpe who had privately treated her for grief and tuberculosis. The couple had a daughter, Marylyn, before divorcing in 1935 -- in part due to...
Sep 26, 1987 · In 1936, she was the center of one of Hollywood's most spectacular scandals when she sued Dr. Franklyn Thorpe for legal custody of their 4-year-old daughter, Marylyn. Dr. Thorpe had divorced...
Standing on the deck of the ship, Dr. Thorpe stands beside Mary, holding baby Marylyn wrapped in a white blanket. Mary Astor and Dr. Thorpe's daughter "Marylyn" gets her name from a combination of Mary and Franklyn.
