to take any money in settlement. In August 1943, Manville married Macie Marie (Sunny) Ainsworth. She had been married four times by age 20. They were separated after eight hours and divorced in Reno in October 1943. In December 1945, he married British-born Georgina Campbell, who met when interviewing him for the Hobo News. Life magazine pictured her in front of photographs of her seven predecessors. She left him after five weeks and was reported to be seeking a divorce. They remained separated but had not divorced when she was killed in an automobile collision in 1952 while driving to have breakfast with him at "Bon Repos". He said they were not planning a reconciliation but had "been friends". In July 1952 he married Briton Anita Frances Roddy-Eden She obtained a Mexican divorce in August, and accepted $100,000 in lieu of alimony. She divorced him again in Reno in 1955, and remarried actor John Sutton, who in 1960 was granted an annulment on the grounds that her 1955 divorce was invalid due to failure to satisfy the required residency period. In May 1957, Manville married his 10th wife, Pat Gaston, a 26-year-old Texas showgirl. They divorced in November of that year. In January 1960, Manville married his 11th and final wife, Christina Erdlen from Heidenheim an der Brenz, West Germany. When they met she was a 20-year-old waitress in White Plains, New York, married to a barber and with a two-year-old daughter, Dianna Ocker. After his death, Christina inherited the bulk of his estate, valued at $1.1 million. Death and legacy Manville died on October 8, 1967. His ninth wife Anita Manville wrote a biography, The Wives and Lives of Tommy Manville, which was seen as the inspiration of the camp musical, Lucky Wonderful: 13 Musicals About Tommy Manville by Jackie Curtis. He was probably the model for Gary Cooper's character in the 1938 motion picture Bluebeard's Eighth Wife. Manville is also mentioned in Irving Berlin’s song What Chance Have I with Love ("Tommy Manville's love is not returned/He sells asbestos and he has learned/ That with asbestos he still gets burned") and in many other passing pop-culture references and metaphors. Manville was considered something of a clown (an image he cultivated with his public persona—part bon vivant, part hapless tool of women), but was also secretly admired by some for his number of conquests and his extravagant bank account.