Gene Mcgrath

Short Biography

Terry Moore:August 55John Wayne introduces her to his friend and CIA contact Gene McGrath, owner of the Panama Insurance CompanyDecember 55flies with her mother and McGrath to Panama and falls for him and the country1 January 56marries McGrath at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas and makes her home in Panama, where exiled Juan Peron is her neighbor and Bebe Rebozo becomes a close friendNovember 58 obtains a quick Panamanian divorce from McGrathConstance Towers:1 April 59secretly marries businessman Eugene C. McGrath in Bloomington, San Bernardino County. He was formerly married to actress Terry Moore and operates a thriving insurance enterprise in Panama, where he has three brothers, including a 38-year-old arch bishop of the Catholic Church. She will reveal their marriage to the press on April 30.1 May 59 she and McGrath are off to London, England, on a combined honeymoon and business tripJuly 60her son, Michael Ford, is born in Nassau, Bahamas. She and her husband were on board their yacht South Wind when she had to be rushed to the Princess Margaret Hospital. The birth is one month premature. His middle name is a salute to director John Ford who brought her into the big time in his picture, The Horse Soldiers.29 December 61her second child, Mary Ardath Maureen, is born in Los Angeles