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Johnny is pictured rehearsing his lines in the mid-’50s with his first wife, Jody Morrill Wolcott, to whom he was married from 1949 to 1963.
Johnny and Jody had three sons, including Christopher (far right) and Richard, who tragically died at 39 in 1991. Not pictured: youngest son Cory Carson.
“There’s no goddamned way to please that woman,” Johnny once complained of his mother, Ruth, here with her son and his father, Homer “Kit” Carson.
wife, Alexis Maas, in 1987 and remained with her until his death at 79 in 2005.
He suspected second wife Joanne Copeland of cheating on him with Frank Gifford; she denied it, and they divorced in 1972.
When he split from third wife Joanna Holland in 1985 after 13 years of marriage, she received a $20 million divorce settlement.