(4 January 1922 - 28 May 1925) (divorced) 1 child
Leatrice Joy was probably the one real love in Jack`s life. He met her on the set of a film where she proceeded to get white body paste all over his only, and treasured dinner jacket. They met again at Tourneur`s studio and Jack and Leatrice soon fell in love. They couldn`t marry right away since he was still married to Olivia Burwell, but in 1923, they finally were able to marry. Their marriage was difficult from the start since Leatrice had her own career and had soon taken a job working for Cecil B. Demille. Demille was a tyrant and insisted that Leatrice not live with Jack during the making of his films. Jack hated him and blamed him for undermining their marriage. However, Leatrice became a star in her own right starring in such memorable Demille epics as Manslaughter, 1922, his first version of "The Ten Commandments", 1923 and Triumph, 1924. She is generally credited with starting the bobbed-hair craze in the 1920s. She retired shortly after the advent of sound, but made occasional appearances in small supporting roles over the years. She and Gilbert had one daughter together, Leatrice Joy Fountain Gilbert and divorced Gilbert in 1924, just when he started his relationship with Garbo.
In February 1921, Gilbert announced his engagement to actress Leatrice Joy. They married in Tijuana in November 1921. As Gilbert had failed to secure a divorce from his first wife and the legality of Gilbert and Joy's Mexican marriage was questionable, the couple separated and had the marriage annulled to avoid a scandal. They remarried on March 3, 1922. The marriage was tumultuous and, in June 1923, Joy filed for legal separation after she claimed that Gilbert slapped her face after a night of heavy drinking. They reconciled several months later. In August 1924, Joy, who was pregnant with the couple's first child, filed for divorce. Joy later said she left Gilbert after discovering he was having an affair with actress Laurette Taylor. Joy also claimed that Gilbert had conducted extra martial affairs with Barbara La Marr (with whom he had a romance before his marriage to Joy), Lila Lee and Bebe Daniels. Their daughter, Leatrice Gilbert, was born on September 6, 1924 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Joy was granted a divorce in May 1925.