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Disaster & Victory. She made roughly a dozen more movies in the years after the affair ended, including The Hasty Heart and The Breaking Point, before going back to Broadway in 1952 to do a revival of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour. She met Dahl at Lillian Hellman's apartment; they were married in 1953. Their marriage has succeeded to a degree that few marriages do, and it has been touched as well with tragedy that few have to endure. On a trip to New York in 1960 to do a small part in Breakfast at Tiffany's, she brought her three small children with her. The youngest, Theo, was being wheeled across upper Madison Avenue in his carriage when a taxi went through a red light, hit the carriage, and carried it into the rear of a bus.
The baby lived, but has undergone eight craniotomies. He walks and talks a streak now, but the Dahls know there is some chance that he will never completely recover from the accident. Two years after the accident, their oldest child Olivia came down with measles one afternoon and was dead that evening.
Disaster did not turn into defeat, and all she wants is as many children as she can possibly have—"I'd love to have lots more." Her fourth child is due in June.