A former ballet dancer, graceful Mari Aldon married Hollywood director Tay Garnett, who encouraged her to become an actress.
May 1951 columnist Louella Parsons knows: "Incidentally, Mari Aldon flies home ahead of the rest of the Cooper company - that's how lonely she is for Tay Garnett..."
January 1952
columnist Erskine Johnson heralds: “Mari Aldon’s comment on an altar sprint with director Tay Garnett: ‘It’s no comment, but with a question mark.’”
August 53
Louella Parsons returns to her : “Mari Aldon planes out any minute to join Tay Garnett in Cannes. He is working on a script for Alan Ladd.”
10 August 53
Louella Parsons tells that “Tay Garnett phoned from London to say he and Mari Aldon are getting married Thursday in a London registry...”
1954 marries William Taylor Garnett in London. He’s about 59; she's 27.
Late August 54
“Katherine Hepburn, who is allergic to parties, gave one in Rome in honor of Mari Aldon and Tay Garnett on their first wedding anniversary. Mari is in the Hepburn movie Time of the Cuckoo.”
25 October 55
her daughter, Tiela, is born in Los Angeles
August 70
files for divorce from Garnett in Los Angeles
October 77
becomes the widow of Garnett, who dies of leukemia at age 83 in Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital. Surviving him are Mari and their daughter, Tiela Garnett Daniels.