(1943 - 1953) (divorced)
43 marries Paramount Pictures New York executive, Hugh Owen.
January 47 spends two weeks in Palm Springs with her estranged husband, Hugh Owen. There are rumors they may reconcile.
January 49 won't return to New York with "her ever lovin' husband Hugh Owen, and for a good reason,” as Louella Parsons reports: "My red-haired friend has signed for Dear Wife, the sequel to Dear Ruth, at Paramount along with Bill Holden and Joan Caulfield. 'Funny part is,' Arleen told me, 'I've been busy playing dear wife in private life golfing and going to movies with Hugh on our vacation out here. Now I'm going to be the other woman.'"
July 50 when not in a picture, she lives in New York with her husband, Hugh Owen.
July 53 she and Owen celebrate their reconciliation by togethering
Mid-November 53 obtains a divorce and $500 monthly alimony from Owen in Santa Monica, California. She charges mental cruelty and testifies that her husband "just wanted to be a bachelor." She says that in the summer of 1952 she received a letter from Owen, who was in New York, asking her to get a divorce. Owens will start a romance with socialite Alma Knight in 1956.