LOIS ANDREWS

Lois Andrews was an actress from the 1940s to the 1950s. Some of her movies include: Dixie Dugan (in the title role), Rustlers, The Desert Hawk, and Meet Me After the Show. But what Miss Andrews is likely best remembered for is what happened when she was 15 (but very "advanced" for her age physically). Out of the blue, on March 22, 1940, she announced her "engagement" to comedian George Jessel, who was 40 at the time, saying "I love Mr. Jessel very much". When Mr. Jessel was asked for a comment, he said "It depends on her mother and perhaps a little more thought" and he added that reports that they would be married were "premature". Remarkably, Mr. Jessel, who had been married twice before, DID marry young Miss Andrews, and the marriage lasted three years and produced a child. She then married a man two years later, and that marriage was annulled, and then married actor Steve Brodie right after, which resulted in two children and a 4 year marriage. Finally, in 1953, when she was 27, she married for the fourth time, this time to a non-actor, and that marriage stuck, lasting she passed away in 1968 at the age of 44 from lung cancer.