Garrett was long married to actor Larry Parks, who I have mentioned in a couple of posts on this blog for his performance as Al Jolson in the biopics The Jolson Story and Jolson Sings Again. Sadly both of them were blacklisted during the McCarthy era, and the couple wound up performing in summer stock and other productions. I believe Larry Parks ended up selling real estate. They had two sons together. Parks died in 1975, relatively young. Garrett never remarried.
More here and here.
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Heir and kidnap victim J. Paul Getty III, only 54 years old:
“Dear Mummy,” his note began, “Since Monday I have fallen into the hands of kidnappers. Don’t let me be killed.”
The eldest Mr. Getty refused to pay the kidnappers anything, declaring that he had 14 grandchildren and “If I pay one penny now, I’ll have 14 kidnapped grandchildren.” His son said he could not afford to pay.
Three months after the abduction, the kidnappers, who turned out to be Calabrian bandits with a possible connection to organized crime, cut off Mr. Getty’s ear and mailed it, along with a lock of his hair, to a Roman newspaper. Photographs of the maimed Mr. Getty, along with a letter in which he pleaded with his family to pay his captors, subsequently appeared in another newspaper. Eventually the kidnappers reduced their demands to around $3 million. According to the 1995 book “Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortune and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty,” by John Pearson, the eldest Mr. Getty paid $2.2 million, the maximum that his accountants said would be tax-deductible. The boy’s father paid the rest, though he had borrow it from his father — at 4 percent interest.
No wonder the younger Getty went into a downward spiral from which he never recovered. What a son of a bitch of a grandfather he had.
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Actress Peggy Rea, 89, of of complications from heart failure.
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