Editing Richard Barthelmess (section)

==Personal life==
On June 18, 1920, Barthelmess married [[Mary Hay (actress)|Mary Hay]], a stage and screen star, in New York.<ref name=fb/> They had one daughter, Mary Barthelmess, before divorcing on January 15, 1927.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cBtbBAAAQBAJ&q=richard+barthelmess+mary+hay+divorce&pg=PT118|title=Bringing Up Oscar: The Story of the Men and Women Who Founded the Academy|last=Pawlak|first=Debra Ann|date=2012-01-12|publisher=Pegasus Books|isbn=978-1-60598-216-8|language=en}}</ref>

In August 1927, Barthelmess became engaged to Katherine Young Wilson, a Broadway actress.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=65239| title = Katherine Wilson's profile at IBDb}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19270824&id=wJ0hAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zZkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4751,4434083| title = Barthelmess and Wilson's wedding announcement in ''The Reading Eagle'', August 24, 1927 (accessed 5 December 2011)}}</ref> However, the engagement was called off due to Wilson's stated desire to continue acting,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cBtbBAAAQBAJ&q=richard+barthelmess+katherine+young+wilson&pg=PT172|title=Bringing Up Oscar: The Story of the Men and Women Who Founded the Academy|last=Pawlak|first=Debra Ann|date=2012-01-12|publisher=Pegasus Books|isbn=978-1-60598-216-8|language=en}}</ref> or possibly his affair around this time with the journalist [[Adela Rogers St. Johns]].<ref>Scott Eyman, ''The Speed of Sound,''1999, p. 305.</ref>

On April 21, 1928, Barthelmess married Jessica Stewart Sargent.<ref name=fb/> He later adopted her son, Stewart, from a previous marriage. They remained married until Barthelmess' death in 1963.{{Citation needed |date=May 2024}}