Mr. Smith mostly stayed behind the scenes after his marriage to Ann-Margret, whom he began dating in the mid-1960s. She and Mr. Smith soon became inseparable, and they married in 1967. “I knew after the third date that this was the man I wanted to marry,” Ann-Margret told The Los Angeles Times in 1982. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyRoger LaVerne Smith was born in South Gate, Calif., on Dec. 18, 1932. “When he was an actor, Roger felt like a puppet,” Ann-Margret told The New York Times in 1971.

Source: New York Times June 06, 2017 18:41 UTC