Late 36
meets young actor Cornel Wilde at a booking office in New York. She dislikes him at first but agrees later to date.

21 September 37
ten months later she elopes with Wilde to Elkton, Maryland. He`s twenty-two; she`s seventeen. They can`t spare any of his $35 for a ring, so she uses one she has had since childhood. He`s 22; she`s 22.

they spend their honeymoon performing in an unsuccessful off-Broadway revival of Moon over Mulberry Street

Spring 38
the Wildes participate in a drama festival at Ann Arbor, Michigan

Summer 38
they are in summer stock at Gloucester, Massachusetts

39
looses her baby in a miscarriage

Laurence Oliver and Vivian Leigh hire Wilde as a technical advisor on the fencing sequences for their Romeo and Juliet, to be staged in New York the following year. She is contracted for a small part.

9 May 40
Romeo and Juliet debuts on stage in New York, after San Francisco and Chicago
?
the Wildes move from New York to Hollywood

22 February 43 her daughter, Wendy, is born in a Los Angeles hospital

44
she calls him "Hormel," and he considers her prettier than any of his leading ladies. They live in an English-style Beverly Hills canyon house.

columnist Sidney Skolsky reports that she is an obliging person and anything Cornel does is okay with her

46
dates several influential
professionals to help her own screen career

c. 46
screen-tests opposite her husband for Forever Amber

October 47
the Wildes have separated three times

confesses to Hedda Hopper that if work will interfere with her marriage, she will settle for no career

49
Cornel Wilde proves to be a casting problem because of his insistence that she be given star status. Columbia gives in by starring them together in Shockproof.

director Douglas Sirk considers her handsomeness rather angular and thinks she is not enormously talented during the filming of Shockproof

March 49
accompanies her husband to Switzerland where he`s on location for Four Days Leave. There she meets Danish skating champion and actor Nils Larsen.
c. Summer 50 on location in Austria for The Magic Face, she rekindles her relationship with Larsen

August 50
they perform pre-Broadway outings in summer stock theaters in Dennis and Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Westport, Connecticut; and Marblehead, Maine

?
back in Hollywood, the Wildes pay $77,000 for a mansion formerly owned by film star Norma Talmadge, which sits atop a hill in exclusive Bel Air

February 51
the Berkshire Players asks her to do Gaslight in Bermuda. She will have a quick visit with Cornel in Florida.

June 51
even though she called off her trip to Nevada, chums expect her to marry her Brazilian admirer, Loupo de Macao, after her divorce from Wilde

July 51
makes her home for six weeks at Cal-Neva Lodge at Crystal Bay, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, in order to establish Nevada residency

August 51
is seen ringside at the Dorothy Shay show with Loupo de Macao

the property settlement between her and Wilde has to be rewritten because one of their oil wells came in

30 August 51
divorces Wilde in Reno, Nevada. She obtains custody of daughter Wendy, with Cornel ordered to pay $200 weekly alimony and child support. Afterwards, she claims: "I don’t want to get married to anyone for a year or so. Loupo is nice and he understands." 33-year-old Loupo, reported to be in the coffee business, has been her almost constant companion in Reno these last weeks. Five days later Wilde marries the ex of actor Franchot Tone, former nightclub songstress-turned-actress Jean Wallace.

Upload a Photo | View All Photos (3)

Cornel Wilde and Patricia Knight have no fans yet!

Add this couple to My Favorites

Saving...

Saved!

Top editors for this profile:

• crown022002 - 10 points (1 edits)
• Phoebe - 5 points (1 edits)

Who's Dated Who content is contributed and edited by our readers. Please report errors or omissions on this page.