Complex sentence: After a brief courtship, the couple were married in Tulsa, Oklahoma on January 2,1939 and moved to Hollywood to find work in films, but their prospects proved to be meager and they soon returned to New York.
Split into simpler sentences: After a brief courtship, the couple were married in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on January 2,1939. They moved to Hollywood to find work in films, but their prospects proved to be meager and they soon returned to New York.