Personal Life
In the mid to late 1930s, Hopper occasionally visited nightclubs with film actress Isabel Jewell. He married actress Jane Gilbert (née Kies, sister of the better-known Margaret Lindsay) in 1940; they had one daughter, Joan (born 1942); the couple divorced in 1959.
Shortly thereafter he married Jeanette Juanita Hopper (née Ward) and became stepfather to her son, Gordon Casimire Williams II.
Jeanette died on October 20, 2008, due to cardiac arrest from atherosclerosis in El Monte, California.
Read more about this topic: William Hopper
Famous quotes containing the words personal and/or life:
“A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“Citizen’s Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)