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==Personal life== Finch was married three times. In 1943, he married [[Romania|Romanian]]-born French ballerina [[Tamara Tchinarova]]; they worked together on a number of films. They had a daughter, Anita, born in 1950. They divorced in 1959, after she discovered his affair with actress [[Vivien Leigh]] in California.<ref name="inieberega2">{{cite journal |author=Artsvi Bakhchinyan |year=2012 |script-title=ru:Внучка армянского помещика, соперница Вивьен Ли, переводчица балетных звезд |trans-title=Granddaughter of an Armenian landowner; rival of Vivien Leigh, interpreter to ballet stars |url=http://www.inieberega.ru/node/448 |journal=Inie Berega |language=ru |access-date=21 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Paul Donnelley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qAhtNiAl3YsC&pg=PA249 |title=Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries |publisher=Music Sales Group |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-84938-246-5 |page=240}}</ref><ref name="TT2">''Dancing into the Unknown'', Tamara Tchinarova Finch, 2007; {{ISBN|978-1-85273-114-4}}; accessed 20 August 2014.</ref> Finch then married South African-born actress [[Yolande Turner]] (née Yolande Eileen Turnbull); they had two children together, Samantha and [[Charles Finch (producer)|Charles Peter]]. During their marriage, Finch had an affair with the singer [[Shirley Bassey]]. Bassey had a daughter, also named Samantha, born in 1963; Bassey's husband at the time, the openly gay film producer Kenneth Hume, believed that Finch was Samantha's biological father.<ref>{{cite web | title=Queer Places - Kenneth Hume | url=http://www.elisarolle.com/queerplaces/klmno/Kenneth%20Hume.html | access-date=19 August 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=23 December 2016 | title=Shirley Bassey reveals secret torment behind glittering 60 year career | website=[[Daily Mirror]] | url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/shirley-bassey-reveals-secret-torment-9508641 | access-date=19 August 2024 }}</ref> Finch and Turner divorced in 1965.<ref name="ADB2" /> On 9 November 1973 in Rome, Finch married Mavis "Eletha" Barrett, who was known as Eletha Finch.<ref name="ADB2" /><ref>{{cite news |date=28 April 1941 |title=Untitled |page=4 |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17733006 |access-date=11 February 2012 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> They had a daughter together, Diana.<ref name="TT2" />
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