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==Personal life== [[File:Not Exactly Gentlemen lobby card.JPG|thumb|right|225px|[[Fay Wray]], [[Robert Warwick]] (left), and McLaglen in ''Not Exactly Gentlemen'', also known as ''Three Rogues'' (1931)<ref name=IMDB>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022480/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 ''Not Exactly Gentlemen'' aka ''Three Rogues'' (1931)], IMDb.com; accessed 4 June 2020.{{unreliable source?|date=March 2023}}</ref>]] In 1935, McLaglen spent a reported $40,000 (equal to ${{Inflation|US|40000|1935|fmt=c}} today) to build his own stadium near [[Riverside Drive (Los Angeles)|Riverside Drive]] and Hyperion Avenue, near [[Griffith Park]] and the [[Atwater Village, Los Angeles|Atwater Village]] neighborhood of Los Angeles. The stadium was used for [[American football|football]] and many other activities. The [[Los Angeles River]] [[Los Angeles flood of 1938|flood of 1938]] seriously damaged the stadium, and it fell into disuse thereafter.<ref>Jim Thurman, [http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2013/12/los_angeles_sports_venues.php "10 L.A. Sports Venues That Are No More"], ''[[LA Weekly]]'', 23 December 2013.</ref><ref>Ted Elrick, ''Los Angeles River'' ([[Arcadia Publishing]], 2008), {{ISBN|978-0738547183}}, pp. 27, 45–47. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KLwH5Aggq_AC&dq=victor+mclaglen+stadium&pg=PA45 Excerpts available] at [[Google Books]].</ref> In 1941, he was selected as the [[grand marshal]] of the Clovis Rodeo parade in [[Clovis, California]].<ref>102nd Clovis Rodeo Official Souvenir Program, p. 12</ref> McLaglen was married three times. He first married Enid Lamont in 1919. The couple had two sons, Andrew, Walter, and one daughter, Sheila.<ref>{{cite news |title=Victor McLaglen and Son |work=Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough |date=4 April 1939 |access-date=22 September 2018 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000770/19390404/064/0003| via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref> [[Andrew McLaglen]] was a television and film director who worked on several film projects with John Wayne. Andrew's children, Mary and Josh McLaglen, are both film producers and directors. Sheila's daughter, [[Gwyneth Horder-Payton]], is a television director. Enid Lamont McLaglen died in 1942 as a result of a [[Equestrianism|horse-riding]] accident. His second marriage was to Suzanne M. Brueggeman. That marriage lasted from 1943 until 1948. His third and final marriage was to divorcée Margaret McNichols Pumphrey, a [[Seattle]] socialite he married in 1948.<ref>''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine, ''Milestones''</ref> They remained married until his death from [[congestive heart failure]] in 1959.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article103106575|title=VETERAN FILM STAR DIES.|newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]]|volume=34|issue=9,442|date=9 November 1959|access-date=18 December 2017|page=5|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He had by that time become a [[Naturalization|naturalized U.S. citizen]]. His cremated remains are interred at [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale]], in the Garden of Memory, Columbarium of Eternal Light.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Desert Sun 11 November 1959 — California Digital Newspaper Collection|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19591111.2.67&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1|access-date=2021-10-13|website=cdnc.ucr.edu}}</ref> On 8 February 1960, McLaglen received a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 1735 [[Vine Street]], for his contributions to the motion-picture industry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.walkoffame.com/victor-mclaglen|title=Victor McLaglen profile|website=walkoffame.com|access-date=19 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/victor-mc-laglen|title=Victor McLaglen profile|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=17 December 2017}}</ref> McLaglen spoke five languages, including [[Arabic]].<ref name="Parker" />
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