Editing Lew Ayres (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Lew Ayres grave at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Brentwood, California.JPG|thumb|Ayres' grave]]

Ayres was married three times. First to actress [[Lola Lane]] from 1931 until 1933, although they were separated much of that period.<ref>{{cite news| title=DIVORCES LEW AYRES.; Lola Lane Receives $35,000 Cash in Los Angeles Suit| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1933/02/04/archives/divorces-lew-ayres-lola-lane-receives-35000-cash-in-los-angeles.html| date=February 4, 1933| newspaper=The New York Times| url-access=subscription}}</ref> He met actress [[Ginger Rogers]] while starring in the film ''[[Don't Bet on Love]]'' in 1933 and they wed in 1934.  They separated in 1936 and divorced in March 1940.<ref>{{cite news| title=GINGER ROGERS FREED; She Gets Divorce From Lew Ayres on Charge of Desertion| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/03/14/archives/ginger-rogers-freed-she-gets-divorce-from-lew-ayres-on-charge-of.html| date=March 14, 1940| newspaper=The New York Times| url-access=subscription}}</ref> His third marriage, to Diana Hall, lasted from 1964 until his death in 1996.<ref name="nytimes"/> Their son Justin was born in 1968.

Ayres was a strict [[Vegetarianism|vegetarian]].<ref>Kovac, Jeffrey. (2009). ''Refusing War, Affirming Peace: A History of Civilian Public Service Camp #21 at Cascade Locks''. Oregon State University Press. p. 54. {{ISBN|978-0870715754}}</ref><ref>Braitman, Jacqueline R. (2020). ''She Damn Near Ran the Studio: The Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Koverman''. University Press of Mississippi. p. 194. {{ISBN|978-1496830388}}</ref>