page_title: Constance Talmadge
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Constance Talmadge / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: "The American Club Woman Magazine", Motion Picture World, by Blanche MacDonald, July 1916, page 10
context_page_description: Constance Alice Talmadge was an American silent film star. She was the sister of actresses Norma and Natalie Talmadge.
context_section_description: Like her sisters Norma and Natalie, Talmadge succumbed to substance abuse and alcoholism later in life. She also had many failed affairs and relationships.
  She was married four times; all the unions were childless:
  Her first marriage, to John Pialoglou (1893-1959), a Greek tobacco importer, occurred in 1920 at a double wedding with Dorothy Gish and James Rennie; she divorced Pialoglou two years later. Her marriage to him, a Greek subject, caused her to lose her natural-born U.S. citizenship; following her divorce, she had to apply for U.S. naturalization.
  She married Scottish soldier Alastair William Mackintosh (grandfather of author Edward St Aubyn) in February 1926, divorcing him in 1927 on grounds of adultery.
  She married Townsend Netcher in May 1929, divorcing in 1931.
  She married Walter Michael Giblin in 1939. This marriage lasted until his death on May 1, 1964.
  Talmadge's mother fostered the belief she might one day return to films. “Success and fame cast a spell that can never been quite shaken off,” her mother pointed out in her autobiography. “A woman, because of her love, may say, and in the fervor of the moment believe, that she is ready to give up her chosen work. But there is sure to come a time when keen longing and strong regret for her lost career dominate over the more placid contentments of love and marriage. Then unhappiness and friction ensue.”
  She died of pneumonia. Along with her sister Norma, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, Talmadge inaugurated the tradition of placing her footprints in concrete outside Grauman's Chinese Theater. She left a trail of five footprints in her slab.
  Her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is at 6300 Hollywood Blvd.
caption: Norma and Constance Talmadge
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