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(4 June 1960 - 3 December 1964) (divorced)
January 59 columnist Harrison Carroll reports that "it's date after date already for her and John Smith, who met filming a 'Cimarron City' TV segment"
c. February 59 divorces Huntley. Huntley is a good friend of John Smith and helps sign papers so that Luana and Smith can get married in church.
May 59 columnist Hedda Hopper expects her soon to announce her engagement to John Smith. "She returned from location of Home from the Hill but couldn't go home; her 6-year-old sister had measles."
December 59 she and Smith announce their engagement in Hollywood. He's 28; she's 21. He began his career as a mail room boy at MGM.
January 60 she, her fiancé John Smith, George Peppard, and George Hamilton fly to San Francisco for a sneak preview of Home from the Hill.
March 60 Carroll tells that when the actors' strike drags on, she and Smith are apt to make that altar trek when John's "Laramie" TV series starts its annual hiatus April 6.
31 May 60 takes out a marriage license in Los Angeles to wed actor John Smith
4 / 5 June 60 marries Smith in a Roman Catholic ceremony. He's 29; she's 22. It's her second marriage and his first.
July 60 she and Smith tour the States in a station wagon on their honeymoon. They visit relatives in Kansas City, Missouri, and Enid, Oklahoma.
? she and Smith settle in a hilltop home, near the estates of Errol Flynn and Dan Durya
25 July 61
columnist Hedda Hopper reports that Luana will get the feminine lead in MGM's upcoming Brothers Grimm. "She plays Greta Heinrich, Karl Boehm's wife, and begins work next week. There'll be some European locations before work resumes at the studio. Luana, dyed blonde for the part, has been warned to stay out of the swimming pool for the duration."
August 61 Hopper reports her bowing out of her seven-year contract with MGM and out of Brothers Grimm. “Since locations take me to Munich, Germany, and elsewhere - and I am happily married and very much in love with my husband John Smith, I do not want to make any movies that will take me away longer than two weeks - that was our pact,” she tells.
December 61 she and Smith will fly to Japan in January. “John’s TV series, ‘Laramie,’ is very big over there...”
August 63 she, her husband and fellow TV actor Don Collier attend a benefit dance at the Valley Garden Ballroom in North Hollywood, from which proceeds will go to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
June 64 columnist Hedda Hopper reports that Luana and John Smith are to star in the upcoming Texas Pistol
30 August 64 she and Smith separate
3 December 64 divorces Smith in Los Angeles testifying that “he seemed to have a habit of saying he was going away for the weekend and then wouldn’t show up until 20 or 21 days later.” He’s 32; she’s 26. He doesn’t contest the divorce. Under property settlement terms she gets a home in Sun Valley, $18,000 by April 1965 and $500 a month alimony for three years.