Personal Life
Brent, known as a womanizer in Hollywood, reputedly carried on a lengthy relationship with his frequent co-star Bette Davis. He was married five times: Helen Louise Campbell (1925–1927), Ruth Chatterton (1932–1934), Constance Worth (1937) and Ann Sheridan (1942–1943) with Chatterton, Worth, and Sheridan being actresses. Chatterton and Sheridan were both fellow Warner Brothers players. His final marriage to Janet Michaels, a former model and dress designer, lasted 27 years until her death in 1974. They had two children together, a son and a daughter.
Davis described in her final years her last meeting with Brent after many years of estrangement. Brent was suffering from emphysema and Davis later expressed great remorse at his ill health and sadness that such a virile and attractive man could have deteriorated so dramatically. Brent died shortly afterward in 1979 in Solana Beach, California, at the age of 80 from emphysema.
Davis also said that Brent was totally gray by the time he started working for Warner Brothers, and he had to dye his hair black.
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