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Jackie Coogan: November Betty
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Meantime Jackie was trying, and failing miserably, to make a living as a grownup. He wanted to marry blonde, lissome Actress Betty Grable. Mrs. Bernstein telephoned Betty's mother. "If Betty thinks she's marrying a rich boy," she piped, "she is mistaken. He hasn't a cent. He's a pauper." Last November Betty married Jackie anyway, began to support him on her Paramount Pictures salary of $500 a week. Since then Jackie has earned exactly $1,000, the result of two weeks' work with his wife in Paramount's College Swing, released this week.
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It was at this time that other problems began to complicate Betty's life, specifically her marriage to Jackie Coogan. Coogan was involved in litigation to claim his share of earnings from his childhood career, and meanwhile squandering the money that Betty was earning in her career. Arguments became more frequent, and the marriage was on definitely shaky ground. Jackie and Betty began filming Million Dollar Legs (the movie name had nothing to do with our lovely Miss Grable's legs, but that of a racehorse), and although Betty's star was in ascendancy, Paramount chose not to pick up her option when she completed the film. Once again, it appeared as if Betty's career was going nowhere. When Jack Benny's radio show came off the air for summer vacation Betty joined Phil Harris and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson on tour.
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Jackie Coogan was emotionally crushed by this family conflict... the professional chance didn't look rosy. His marriage with the actress Betty Grable was divorced after two years in 1939. He escaped from the private stress and served in the army during World War II.
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