The first volume charted the extraordinary theatre successes (All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge), the marriage to Marilyn Monroe and its collapse, the appearance before the House UnAmerican Activities committee and consequent withdrawal of his passport.
It includes compelling discussions of Mr. Bridges's marriage, acting technique and close relationship with his father, the actor Lloyd Bridges, who died in 1998.
CONCIERGE SERVICE Close the Sydney Harbor Bridge for a marriage proposal?
"This was the night Mrs. Bridge concluded that while marriage might be an equitable affair, love itself was not".
A close friend of hers, Larry Cohen, pointed out that Judy Kay Wolff must again accept the role of second-best bridge player in her marriage.
The rest of Mr. Baker's résumé reads like a picaresque novel featuring drugs, guns, jails, broken marriages, burned bridges, squandered fortunes, and tax and immigration problems, with pit stops in Britain, Nigeria, Italy, the United States and South Africa.
In 1962 he married Susan Flint, former wife of a fellow member of the British bridge team, and, after the marriage was dissolved in 1996, Judy Williams.
She and Dr. Hertz, who is a psychiatrist practicing in White Plains, have thrived in both areas because "we communicate well -- that's the essence of a good partnership in marriage and in bridge".
"We had been reading aloud the book 'A Bridge Across Forever.' I proposed marriage, and she accepted". Everything comes full circle.
Still, one Saturday last spring, we drove across the Golden Gate Bridge to Mill Valley to attend a marriage-education class.
