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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.
The video of the chapel and her body lying in the coffin was still streaming and the microphone was still on, long after the funeral service was over.
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 .
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 ...
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Cry In The Night, A (1956) -- (Movie Clip) No Use Screaming At once considerate and brutal, Raymond Burr as maybe mentally-ill Harold has abducted under-age Liz (Natalie Wood) after not-meaning-to knock out her boyfriend at the local lover’s lane, moving to his hide-out, early in A Cry In The Night, 1956, from producer Alan Ladd’s Jaguar ...
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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.
