Marrying a Hollywood Actress
In the middle of his messy divorce from Emma, Burroughs had met and managed to woo the silent movie star Florence Gilbert, whose husband at the time, Ashton Dearholt, produced the 1935 film, ‘The New Adventures of Tarzan.’ Burroughs married Gilbert within a year, despite the fact that he was 60 at the time and she was 32.
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He learned pretty quickly that it was exhausting trying to keep up with his new bride’s Hollywood lifestyle. By the time the Second World War began, he and his new wife moved to Hawaii, along with her two children. It was in Hawaii that Burroughs spent as much of his time partying as he did writing.