Editing Ann Harding (section)

==Personal life==
Harding was married twice, her husbands being:

*[[Harry Bannister]],<ref name=ot/> an actor. They married in 1926 and divorced in 1932 in [[Reno, Nevada]]. A ''New York Times'' article (May 8, 1932) about the divorce stated that the actress still loved her husband and only agreed to a divorce to help Bannister's stymied career. "The proceedings were among the most unusual in the history of Nevada's liberal divorce laws," the newspaper reported. "Only through dissolution of their marriage could he escape, they said, from being overshadowed by Miss Harding's rise to stardom." The divorce also resulted in what was described as "a bitter court fight ... over custody of their daughter",<ref name=nyt/> Jane Harding (1928–2005, married name Jane Otto). According to an interview with Harding's biographer, Scott O'Brien, Jane Harding said, "I had a terrible childhood. I hated my nurse. I never saw mother. She was always busy."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://streamline.filmstruck.com/2010/12/08/ann-harding-a-q-a-with-biographer-scott-obrien/ |title=Streamline &#124; the Official Filmstruck Blog – Ann Harding: A Q & A with Biographer Scott O'Brien |access-date=March 21, 2018 |archive-date=February 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212092137/http://streamline.filmstruck.com/2010/12/08/ann-harding-a-q-a-with-biographer-scott-obrien/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> 
*[[Werner Janssen]], the conductor.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/04/obituaries/ann-harding-actress-hailed-for-roles-as-elegant-women.html | title=Ann Harding, Actress Hailed for Roles as Elegant Women | newspaper=The New York Times | date=September 4, 1981 | last1=Lawson | first1=Carol }}</ref> Harding and Janssen married in 1937 and divorced in 1963, with Harding claiming that her husband had controlled her throughout their marriage, keeping her from her friends and isolating her from the world. By this marriage, Harding had two stepchildren, Alice and Werner Jr.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100907034004/http://www.annhardingbiography.com/ O'Brien, Scott. ''Ann Harding: Cinema's Gallant Lady''], p. 465 (Bear Manor, 2010).</ref>

Among Harding's romances was the novelist and screenwriter [[Gene Fowler]]. In the early 1960s, Harding began living with Grace Kaye, an adult companion, later known as Grace Kaye Harding. Ann Harding referred to Kaye as her daughter.<ref>O'Brien, Scott. ''Ann Harding: Cinema's Gallant Lady'', pp. 499-510 (Bear Manor, 2010)</ref>

Harding campaigned for the reelection of President [[Herbert Hoover]] in 1932.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1932-11-02 |title=Editorial |pages=6 |work=[[The Napa Valley Register|The Napa Daily Register]]}}</ref>