Fernando, where have you been looking? I suppose it doesn't surprise me that he was a womaniser, I wasn't sure if I'd read something previously but couldn't remember whether it was him I'd read about or someone else, I suppose it was unusual not to be a womaniser with so many beautiful women around. He was married to Florence Eldridge until he died, so she must either have known and not minded as long as he was discreet or completely in the dark.
I look it up in a couple of books full of saucy data about actors, actresses, quotes et al titled "Did He or Didn't He" & "Did She or Didn't She"...
Apparently Mr. March was a quite a womanizer, but on the other hand he was committed to his wife Florence Eldridge. Many men of that age -actors and non actors- had their homes and wives and at the same time had plenty of affairs. It was not unusual in those days.
March and Laughton starred together in "
The Sign of the Cross" (1932), "
The Barretts of Wimpole Street" (1934) and "
Les Misérables" (1935) and they worked well together on screen...in spite of the shenaningans behind the scenes; in fact there's another anecdote concerning the filming of "
Barretts...". According to these books Mr. Laughton shouted
"The Man is shameless!", professing outrage because March wore no underwear beneath his ultratight, crotch-hugging trousers in that film...
