Hollywood Stars relaxing at Home

We have featured various film star at home and away from the Film Studios and here is another selection :

Alan Ladd plays Chess

 

Alan Ladd playing chess having just returned from filming The Red Beret in England

Tyrone Power and Linda Christian

 

Tyrone Power and his wife Linda Christian had only recently given birth to their daughter

Tyrone Power and Linda Christian were married on January 27, 1949.  Linda very sadly  miscarried three times before giving birth to a baby girl, Romina Francesca Power, on October 2, 1951. A second daughter, Taryn Stephanie Power, was born on September 13, 1953.

Around the time of Taryn’s birth, the marriage was becoming rocky. In her autobiography, Linda Christian blamed the breakup of her marriage on her husband’s  affairs, but acknowledged that she had had an affair with Edmund Purdom,  which created great tension her and her husband which resulted in them being divorced in 1955

Kathryn Grayson with her Daughter Patricia

Kathryn Grayson and her daughter – Patricia (Left) who is celebrating her Birthday with a friend

Dick Powell, June Allyson and young son Richard Keith

ABOVE:  Dick Powell and June Allyson and their son Richard Keith

Farley Granger

 Farley Granger at his Hollywood apartment

Dana Andrews and Family at home

Dana Andrews with his wife Mary and three children Stephen, Kathryn and David

Mrs. Andrews – formerly Mary Todd – had put her own career on hold to rear the actor’s son David – above on the Left – from his first marriage and their own son and two daughters. But she returned occasionally to perform at the Pasadena Playhouse, and in 1953 toured with her far-better-known husband and Walter Matthau in “The Glass Menagerie.”

In the 1970s, she and her husband, who died in 1992, toured together in several plays with mature leading roles. Among them were “Morning’s at Seven” and “Gaslight.” Critics drawn by Dana Andrews’ fame praised the performances by his wife.”

David Murray Andrews was born in 1933. He was the son of Dana Andrews and Janet Murray. He passed away in 1964.

Dana Andrews had married Janet Murray in 1932 – their son David was born in 1934 – and she died in 1935

The son of actor Dana Andrews, he lay  semi-conscious for a month after a cerebral haemorrhage and died Saturday February 17, 1964 in Marin General Hospital.

David Andrews, who lived in Sausalito, Marin County, California had been a patient at the hospital since January 14 and had undergone brain surgery.

He had been working as announcer and musical director at radio station KFRC in San Francisco for two years. He previously was a radio announcer in Monterey and an associate program director with Columbia Broadcasting System in Los Angeles. He was a graduate of University of California at Los Angeles.

He left a wife, Tracy – and his father.

 

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