Personal Life
She was married to Jack Dunphy, whom she divorced on March 6, 1951, and then to dancer and choreographer Bob Fosse from December 1952 to 1959.
McCracken was diagnosed in her teens with Type-1 diabetes. Reliable treatment for the disease was not yet then available, and her career was severely hampered as a result, despite her conscientiousness with regard to her condition. Through luck and determination, she persevered better than most; but long-term complications inevitably set in, and inherited heart problems (both of her parents died of heart attacks in their early 40s) damaged her health further, forcing her to turn down numerous offers of work in the mid- and late 50s. She died in her sleep, of a heart attack, in 1961 on Fire Island, New York, aged 43.
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