February 39 marries Chicago real estate man-turned-producer Benedict Earl Bogeaus in Newport, Connecticut. He`s 34; she`s 17.
September 40 goes from New York to Hollywood. She is heiress to the Armstrong coal and coke millions.
41 remarries Bogeaus for sentimental reasons in Arizona
3 June 41 her son, Geoffrey Forsythe, is born in Los Angeles
October 42 columnist Jimmy Fidler tells: "Mimi Forsythe, film-contracted by Gregory Ratoff, and currently getting a high-pressure build-up as an unwed eastern socialite, is really Mrs. Ben Bogeaus, wife of the president of General Service studios, and mama of a year-old-child."
August 43 columnist Louella Parsons reports that Oona O`Neil, Charlie Chaplin`s bride, was on the set of The Girl from Leningrad, watching Mimi Forsythe, who plays the role she was to have had before she became Mrs. Chaplin..."
March 44 says about her husband: "He`s Russian and French but he looks like a Syrian, with eyebrows like the devil. There`s a bit of devil in him anyway, more than just in his eyebrows," she asserts. "We like a lot of the same things, traveling, working, seeing people. We fight a lot - wonderful screaming battles, I tell him what I think about his work, and he sues on to me about mine. Every so often, I make noises about a divorce, think of filing suits and so on. But Bogeaus is just as crazy as I am and I think it might be hard to find as good a match anywhere else!"
5 July 44 is injured when the Santa Fe Chief, a fast streamlined passenger train, tears itself from the tracks and furrows its way into the high mountain plateau of northern Arizona. She suffers a broken wrist and possible internal injuries.
Early August 44 she and Bogeaus are reported giving their marriage another chance
August 44 leaves "the mansion of Benedict Bogeaus, movie producer, zipper inventor and her husband of several years. She said she`d sue for divorce on a terribly amicable basis."
September 44 Parsons notes her at the fights "the other night with Seymour Chotiner, attorney..."
October 44 columnist Jimmy Fidler asks "Wotzis anent Venita Varden (Mrs. Jack Oakie) and Mimi Forsythe trading left hooks at a party?..."
Mid-October 44 files for divorce from Bogeaus in Los Angeles. She claims mental cruelty and asks custody of their son, Geoffrey, 3.
5 June 45 divorces Bogeaus after five years of marriage. She testifies he threatened to kill her if she left on a vacation. She claims "I am a great deal younger than Mr. Bogeaus and have an affinity for people my own age."