Inga Arvad - Marriages and Romances

Marriages and Romances

Arvad married young, and her first husband was Kamal Abdel Nabi, whom she married at the age of 17 in 1931. Her second husband was Hungarian film director Paul Fejos. She appeared in two Danish films, Storm Varsel and the Fejos-directed 1934 film she starred in, Flugten fra Millionerne. She was still married to Fejos when she travelled to the United States, as well as during her affair with Kennedy.

She became engaged to Robert Boothby, a member of Parliament in England in May 1945. He met Arvad in Los Angeles, California while he was with an English delegation to a conference in San Francisco, California. Boothby sent her a twenty page letter pleading with her to marry him after he returned to England. Arvad accepted, but then broke off the engagement because of a compliment Hitler once paid her as being "the perfect Nordic beauty" and the effect it may have on Boothby's political career. Arvad commented that she despised Hitler's policies and only saw him on the two occasions of her interviews. However, the English press made much of her audience with him and Boothby was soon to be seeking re-election.

Arvad was suspected of being the mistress of Axel Wenner-Gren, a Swedish industrialist on the U.S. State Department blacklist. No proof of such a relationship has ever surfaced. The U.S. Navy was concerned that Wenner-Gren's yacht was being used to refuel German U-boats.

Inga went on to marry American actor Tim McCoy in 1946 With Tim, she had two sons, Ronald and Terence McCoy. Arvad met McCoy as a newspaper writer when he was making a film short shot on an American Indian reservation. McCoy and Arvad resided on a 127-acre (0.51 km2) estate in Bucks County, Pennsylvania named Dolington Manor. McCoy moved there after selling his Wyoming ranch, the Eagle's Nest, where he had lived for thirty-seven years. When their first child was born in August 1947, McCoy was 56. He had three children by a previous marriage.

In January 1946 David O. Selznick sent Arvad on a tour of twenty-five to thirty American cities to promote Duel in the Sun. She was accompanied by Anita Colby, Florence Pritchett, and Laura Wells.

Inga Arvad died of cancer on a ranch near Nogales, Arizona in 1973. She was survived by McCoy, then 82, and her two sons.