Personal Life
She was the elder sister of Peter Marshall, an actor and singer best known as the original host of the American game show Hollywood Squares.
Before moving to Hollywood, Dru met and married popular singer Dick Haymes in 1941. She was 19 years old. The couple had three children: Richard Ralph Haymes (born July 24, 1942), Helen Joanna Haymes (born May 13, 1944), Barbara Nugent Haymes (born September 19, 1947). Divorced from Haymes in 1949, Dru married Red River co-star John Ireland less than a month later. The pair divorced in 1957. She had no children from her subsequent three marriages.
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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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