(18 January 1956 - 4 June 1957) (divorced)
July 55 is pursued by Artie Stander
August 55
has a serious romance with Arthur Stander, the producer of her TV show
9 January 56
announces she’ll marry Stander on January 18 in Las Vegas. She and Stander met while she was appearing on Broadway in Pajama Game. Stander offers her the leading part in the television series "It’s Always Jan," and she leaves Broadway to accept the part.
18 January 56
marries TV producer-writer Arthur Stander in Las Vegas, Nevada. He’s 39; she’s 33. Each was married once previously.
January 56
columnist Walter Winchell reports that her former admirer, Bob Goldworm, is now consoled by ballerina Mary Ellen Terry
February 56
she and Stander plan to make a movie together
September 56
has to be given oxygen during her nightclub engagement at Lake Tahoe. The altitude affected her.
March 57
she and Stander embark upon a "mental separation." That is what a spokesman for her calls it. He says that although they are living in different rooms of the same house, they have come to the conclusion they will have to part. They have been married 14 months.
April 57
friends blame her split-up with Stander chiefly on the flop of "It’s Always Jan," which he wrote and produced. It was the program that brought them together in the first place, but when they became a husband-and-wife team in the nerve-wracking world of video the familiar frictions developed.
she and Stander are said to be on the long distance phone daily. Intimates are hopeful that they will patch things.
4 June 57
divorces Stander in Santa Monica. "He was uncontrollably jealous. I was subject to hours and days of cross-examination about my past life." she testifies. "And the questions were completely unjustified." Stander will die at age 40 in 1963 of a cerebral hemorrhage.