Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-14

- est victory of her turbulent life ~
you know Hedy-the seductive IL
glamourous lady of the films OF courseD r.
The fight she fought had nothing to do
with a man.
The dark-eyed Hungarian beauty has Il
shown more than once that she can take
her men leave EN-, without undue
distress
At stake In this battle was her 2-year-
old adopted son, James Lamar Markey.
In Los Angeles courtroom the other
day. a judge signed the papers which
made the exotic Miss Lamar little
Jimmie's mother in everything save flesh and
blood
And now it can be told that worry and fear
that the boy might be taken from her threat
ened not only Miss Lamarr's career
actress but her very life
Moreover II cost her two golden opportuni
ties TO add new lustre 20 her stardom and
huge sum in salary which she sacrificed will
ingly so she could devote all her energy, the
whole blazing, driving intensity Of her being,
10 her fight for Jimmie.
And there are those in Hollywood who say
that Hedy's marriage to the affable, brilliant
Gene Marley, writer, cabalero, and now
leutenant-commander in the United States
Navy on duty in Panama failed because
Marley could not compete with Jimmie for
Miss Lamar's affections.
The baby was born March 6, 1889, little
less than month before Hedy Lamar and
Markey the former husband Of Joan Bennett,
were married in romantic Ensenada, Mexico.
At the time of her marriage, Hedy already
had made arrangements TO adopt the child
through a Los Angeles society dedicated TO
finding homes for orphaned children.
The bride. one of the most exotic women
in the world was fretful on the honeymoon,
.T...l.N a
Mexico the tinkle Of guitars. the soft melody
the wind makes as il rustles the fronds Of
the palm trees, the courtly attentions of her
bridegroom.
She wanted to get back to Hollywood, to
, take little Jimmie into her home.
To arrange for probationary adoption. it
was necessary for Miss Lamar to convince
the authorities she intended to be a good
mother in every sense Of the word
They remembered, Of course that her first
marriage TO Fritz Mandl, the Austrian muni-
tons millionaire, now in exile, was
failure.
This was due largely to the gorgeous
Hedy's appearance in the sensational Euro
pean film 'Ecstacy," wherein she cavorted all
naturel with the camera backed off to
discreet distance, of course.
So enraged was Mandl at this public
display Of his wife's galaxy of charms that
he attempted TO buy all the negatives of the
picture, and did buy all the luscious posters
which were intended to be spread upon bill
boards throughout Europe.
Miss Lamar convinced the orphanage
authorities, as she had convinced Will II.
Hays, the Dictator of Movie Morals, that she
was actually as circumspect as a deaconess.
So all was well until her marriage to
Marley collapsed.
That in itself did not bother Hedy There
was no scandal about the divorce It seemed
that she just as the Virginia judge said. lost
her taste for her husband"
she told the judge that during the 10
months Of her married life with Marley they
had only four evenings alone
a gallant fellow Markey did not challenge
this statement. IT, as his friends say. he
found that when he wanted TO talk with his
wife, or bill and COO she usually was busy
with Jimmie, he kept his own counsel.