Marriages and Family
Brokaw's first wife was writer Clare Boothe (later Clare Boothe Luce), whom he married on August 10, 1923 in Greenwich, Conn. Their daughter Ann Clare Brokaw was born in 1924. According to Boothe, Brokaw was an abusive alcoholic, and the marriage ended in divorce in 1929.
On January 10, 1931, Brokaw married Frances Ford Seymour in a small New York City wedding. Brokaw and Seymour had a daughter Frances de Villers Brokaw, born October 10, 1931. After Brokaw died in 1935, Seymour married Henry Fonda in 1936; the couple had two children, Jane and Peter.
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Famous quotes containing the words marriages and/or family:
“If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I can only sign over everything,
the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels,
the soul, the family tree, the mailbox.
Then I can sleep.
Maybe.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)