Personal Life
For Brooks, Elmer Gantry was significant for personal as well as professional reasons. In 1960 he married his leading actress, Jean Simmons, after her divorce from Stewart Granger. Brooks helped to raise Simmons’ daughter by Stewart Granger, Tracy, and Simmons gave birth to another daughter, Kate, in 1961. They separated in 1977 and were legally divorced in 1980.
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