JOYCE MATHEWS, NEW YORK SHOW GIRL WAITING FOR HER BRIDEGROOM COMEDIAN MILTON BERLE.Twice married to the late Milton Berle, with whom she adopted a daughter, Victoria.When Milton Berle was asked why he remarried Joyce Mathews after they divorced, he quipped "She reminded me of my first wife"!!A showgirl at age 15.Married seven times to four husbands, remarrying three of them.Joyce's first "marriage" was at the age of 16 to one of the many illegitimate sons of Venezuelan dictator Juan Vicente Gomez (1857-1935), who never married but fathered between 80-100 children. Pushed into the marriage by her controlling stage mother, the huge wedding with 800 guests took place at the Waldorf Astoria. When Joyce was finally told who her late father-in-law really was and about his savage "reign of terror," she had her marriage annulled after only two weeks.
Photo measures 6.75 x 10.5 in.
