Personal Life
Perry opened the Riddlesdown Lawn Tennis Club in 1938 with an exhibition match.
Perry was one of the leading bachelors of the 1930s and his off-court romances were sensationalised in the world press. Perry had a romantic relationship with the actress Marlene Dietrich and in 1934 he announced his engagement to the British actress Mary Lawson, but the relationship fell apart after Perry relocated to America. In 1935 he married an American film star Helen Vinson, but their marriage ended in divorce in 1940. In 1941 he was briefly married to a model, Sandra Breaux, but then, in 1945, he married Lorraine Walsh, but the marriage ended quickly. Perry's final marriage to Barbara Riese in 1952 lasted over forty years, until his death. They had two children Penny and David. The sister of Barbara (Bobby) Riese was the actress Patricia Roc.
Perry had one sister, Sylvia, and has a great-nephew and great-niece, Daniel and Laura Nightingale. Perry died in hospital in Melbourne, Australia after breaking ribs following a fall in a hotel bathroom.
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