Arleen Whelan

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16 September 1916 is born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her father owns a small electrical shop.

She is a hairdresser when discovered by Hollywood painter Azadia Newman. Azadia paints her because of her piquant face and rich auburn hair.

She was once rumored for the Scarlett O'Hara role in the upcoming Gone with the Wind

February 1938 20th Century-Fox slaps a 3-year non-marriage clause into her contract

She dated Tyrone Power after his broken almost-engagement to fellow actress Janet Gaynor

2 September 1940 she marries Alexander D'Arcy in a Las Vegas, Nevada, hotel suite. The couple motors in from Hollywood and starts their return trip soon after the ceremony. He's 31; she's 26.

1942 is on Broadway for a year in the hit comedy The Doughgirls, with Arlene Francis and Doris Nolan

18 August 1943 she is granted a divorce from D'Arcy in Hollywood after a 3-year marriage. She claims D'Arcy was an "extremely supersensitive person" and charges that he interfered with her work by outbursts of temperament. Their elopement in September 1940 had been much against objections of her parents. He's 39; she's 26.

1943 she marries Paramount Pictures New York executive, Hugh Owen

Summer of 1952 receives a letter from her husband asking her to get a divorce

Mid-November 1953 obtains a divorce and $500 monthly alimony from Owen in Santa Monica, California. She charges mental cruelty and testifies that her husband "just wanted to be a bachelor." She says that in the summer of 1952 she received a letter from Owen, who was in New York, asking her to get a divorce. Owens will start a romance with socialite Alma Knight in 1956.

In February 1954 there are rumors she will marry 44-year-old Hyatt Robert von Dehn, building contractor and former husband of singer-actress Ginny Simms

In March 1960 she marries James Cagney in San Francisco. He's 40, she's 43.

26 May 1961 files for divorce from Cagney in Santa Monica, California, after a 15-month marriage. She charges cruelty. Cagney will die at age 82 in 2002 in Santa Monica.

July 61 is in Santa Monica Superior Court asking $1,150 a month alimony from Cagney testifying that she has not had a movie or television contract for the past four or five 19years. The court entitles her to $600 a month temporary alimony.

7 April 93 as Arleen W. Cagney, she dies at age 76 in Laguna Niguel, California, from a stroke

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