Complex sentence: Twelvetrees left films in favor of summer stock in 1939 and made her Broadway debut in Jacques Deval's "Boudoir" in 1941.The play folded after only eleven performances and she semi-retired to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with her third husband, a military officer.
Split into simpler sentences: Twelvetrees left films in favor of summer stock in 1939 and made her Broadway debut in Jacques Deval's "Boudoir" in 1941. Unfortunately, the play folded after only 11 performances and she semi-retired to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with her third husband, a military officer.