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Actor John Agar dies
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- John Agar, the Air Force sergeant who married Shirley Temple and became an actor, until alcoholism damaged his marriage and career, died Sunday. He was 81.

Agar was serving at March Field in 1945 when a friend arranged for him to escort Temple to a Hollywood party. Agar was 24, the child star 16. A romance ensued and against her mother's wishes, they were married later that year.

The pair appeared together in Fort Apache and Adventure in Baltimore, and Temple gave birth to a daughter in 1948. Troubled by his excessive drinking and flirtations, Temple filed for divorce in 1949.

Agar continued acting in Westerns such as She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Along the Great Divide, and war movies Sands of Iwo Jima and Breakthrough.

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