Milestones, Dec. 18, 1950

Divorced. Robert Montgomery, 46, cinemactor (Night Must Fall), radio commentator, TV director (Robert Montgomery Presents); by Elizabeth Allen Montgomery, 43, onetime actress; after 22 years of marriage; two children; in Las Vegas, Nev. Six days later, Montgomery married Mrs. Elisabeth Grant Harkness, 41, Manhattan socialite, in Sag Harbor, N.Y.

Divorced. By Hattie McDaniel, 53, character actress who currently plays radio's "Beulah," the first Negro to win Hollywood's Academy Award (for 1939's best supporting performance, in Gone With the Wind); fourth husband Larry Williams, fiftyish, interior decorator; in Los Angeles, after she testified that their five months together had been marred by "arguing...

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