(24 October 1964 - 25 March 1971) (divorced) 2 children
1963 meets insurance representative-turned-actor Tom Stern at a London nightclub when he's in the London cast of Never Too Late with Fred Clark and Joan Bennett.
13 July 1964
a spokesman in London announces that she will marry Stern in October or November in London. The spokesman says that Stern proposed to her last weekend by transatlantic telephone. She is in London filming The Collector. The couple will meet in about three weeks in Gallup, New Mexico, where Stern will do location filming for The Hallelujah Trail. It will be the first marriage for each.
24 October 1964
marries actor-producer Tom Stern at St.Mary's Church in Chelsea, London. He's about 32; she's 25. He's Jewish; she's Catholic.
May 1965
columnist Earl Wilson reports that she’s expecting
12 September 1965
her son, Nicolas, is born in Los Angeles. He will become a producer.
Late September 1965
she and Stern show their week-old son to the press at their Beverly Hills home
December 1965
is called Sam Stern at Columbia studios, where she's currently filming Walk, Don't Run
July 1967
expects her second child in mid-September. "Her husband, Tom Stern, will rejoin her soon from Italy, where he has been filming with William Holden."
23 September 1967
her daughter, Jenna Louise, is born in Los Angeles. She will become an actress.
3 April 1968
her daughter is christened at St. Mary's Church in Chelsea, London, by Father John Grant, the same priest who christened Samantha herself 27 years ago
16 June 1969
her husband sues her in Los Angeles for divorce on grounds of extreme cruelty. In his complaint he asks custody of their children, Nicolas, 3, and Jenna Louise, 2. He describes her as an unfit mother and says she had threatened to take the children abroad to France and hide them. The petition says she has secreted $500,000 in Swiss banks. She says in a statement: "Ten days ago I asked my husband for a separation. He replied that he would let me know his decision after he could have some time to think it over. The next I heard was this afternoon that he had filed for divorce and requested an injunction to keep me from taking my two children with me to Paris later this week." He's 37; she's 30.
31 July 1969
she and Stern are reported to have "managed to cool those fires of discord that had them at each other's necks for awhile. Sam was afraid Tom wouldn't let her take their children to Paris where she was to begin film work. Not only did he let her. But he's even managed a trip to the French capital for family-reunion time."
February 1971
gives instructions to her press agent to stop Stern at all costs from getting to her during her stay at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel. The tall muscular press agent is a black belt karate expert.
25 March 1971
is granted a divorce from Stern in Los Angeles Superior Court and given token alimony of $1 a year for five years. She agrees to give Stern $25,000 and to support their two children, whose custody she is awarded. She tells the court that her income exceeds $200,000 a year.