Turning a Blind Eye
Most of Mannix’s scandal policing helped maintain the allusion that Hollywood marriages were faithful. However, Mannix himself was completely incapable of being in a committed relationship. The MGM fixer married Bernice Fitzmaurice—a nice Irish girl from his hometown—way back in his amusement park days.
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Fitzmaurice was well aware of her husband’s affairs, but she was Catholic. So she put up with Mannix’s adulterous ways to avoid getting a divorce. As long as Mannix stuck to one-night stands, Fitzmaurice turned a blind eye. But in the mid-1920s, her husband began a relationship with another woman.