Willis Hall(1929-2005)

He rarely spoke of his tempestuous and short-lasting marriage to Jill Bennett, but, after her suicide and near the end of his own life, he revealed that she had been in the frequent habit of telephoning him from home to say she had just taken an overdose of sleeping pills. This, of course, would cause him to abandon whatever he was doing and rush back to her - whereupon he would find her laughing mockingly at his naivete and drinking champagne. He claimed that she was so neurotic and self-centered that he could never be sure of her, and had left her rather than put up with her behavior. By a terrible irony, she actually did commit suicide by an overdose some twenty-five years after their divorce.