The second of his three marriages, to the movie star Celia Ryland, was a choice
morsel in the gossip columns; like his first marriage, this one would end in divorce.
An unplanned out - of - wedlock pregnancy, a miscast leading man, a pair of twin
gossip columnists at each other's throats to grab the juiciest
morsel of scandal and serve it up on a silver platter to the public, these are all
in a day's work for Mannix, and a night's for that matter.