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Barbara Stanwyck & the actor Rex Cherryman on the set of The Noose, 1927.
Stanwyck had an affair with the married Cherryman while filming the movie and the couple became engaged the next year. However Cherryman fell ill and on the advice of his doctor took a sea voyage to Paris where Stanwyck had arranged to meet him. Cherryman died at sea from septic poisoning at the age of 31.