Stan Laurel - Personal Life

Personal Life

Laurel had a rich marital history. He had four wives and married one of them twice.

In 1928, during the early years of Laurel and Hardy's partnership, Laurel and first wife Lois had a baby girl, also named Lois, who married actor Rand Brooks. In May 1930, their second child, Stanley Robert Laurel, died after nine days.

In 1935, Laurel divorced Lois and married Virginia Ruth Rogers. In 1938, he divorced Virginia and married Vera Ivanova Shuvalova. By 1941, he had divorced Vera and re-married Virginia. In 1946, he divorced Virginia and married Ida Kitaeva Raphael, whom he did not divorce.

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