Personal Life
Van Cleef was married three times. He married his first wife Patsy Ruth in 1943. They divorced in 1960. Later that year, he married his second wife, Joan Drane. It was with this wife that Van Cleef, while recovering from his accident and away from acting, started his outside businesses. They divorced in 1974. Two years later, he married his third wife, Barbara Havelone. They remained married until his death in 1989.
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“The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people. To ‘see the light’ too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.”
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