"In 1952 Hirsch made headlines again, when she became engaged to jewelry heir Claude Cartier — but she broke things off at the last minute, to marry the movie star Daniel Gélin. The couple were rarely out of the news in the years that followed, with cameras tracking their every move. They were photographed on honeymoon in Capri; photographed at home, exhausted but giddy with joy as they showed off their baby son; and photographed again, eighteen months later, in the graveyard where they buried that first child — Hirsch’s body sagging, held up by Alla on one side and her weeping husband on the other. She looked more lost, and more child-like herself, than she ever had."
by John-Michael O'Sullivan