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==Personal life== ===Marriages=== Stokowski married three times. His first wife was American concert pianist [[Olga Samaroff]], to whom he was married from 24 April 1911 until their divorce on 30 July 1923. They had one daughter: Sonya Maria Noel Stokowski (24 December 1921 - 19 March 2025),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stokowski.org/Leopold%20Stokowski%20Biography.htm|title=Leopold Stokowski Biography|publisher=The Stokowski Legacy|author=Larry Huffman|access-date=1 November 2016}}</ref> an actress. His second wife was [[Johnson & Johnson]] heiress Evangeline Love Brewster Johnson, an artist and aviator, to whom he was married from 11 January 1926 until their divorce on 2 December 1937. They had two daughters: Gloria Luba Stokowski and Andrea Sadja Stokowski. In March 1938, Stokowski began a highly publicized relationship with film actress [[Greta Garbo]] after the two vacationed together in Italy, on the island of [[Capri]].<ref>New York Times 2 March 1938</ref> Whether or not their relationship was romantic or platonic was the subject of much speculation and scrutiny in the [[news media|press]]. On 21 April 1945, Stokowski married heiress and actress [[Gloria Vanderbilt]]. They had two sons, Leopold Stanislaus Stokowski (born 1950) and Christopher Stokowski (born 1952). They divorced on 29 October 1955.<ref>[[Margery Lewis|Lewis, Margery]] (photographer) ‘LIFE visits the Stokowski Family’ ''LIFE'' 7 September 1953, Vol. 35, No. 10. ISSN 0024-3019. pps. 122-124</ref> [[File:Stokowski Leopold grave.jpg|right|upright|thumb|Stokowski's grave at [[East Finchley Cemetery]].]]
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