In the 1950s, Jackie fell in love with one of the dancers on his show, Marilyn Taylor, the sister of his choreographer, June Taylor. The problem was Jackie had been married since 1936 to Genevieve Halford, a former dancer. It was an unhappy marriage--Jackie was too much of a partier to be a stay at home family man(he had two daughters who he barely saw)-- but his wife, a devout Catholic, refused to grant him a divorce until 1970. By then, Jackie and Marilyn hadn't seen each other in years. In 1974, they reunited when Marilyn moved to Miami to be closer to her sister June. A year later, they were married and happily stayed that way until Jackie died in 1987.