 In 1947, he married Charlene Stafford Wrightsman (1927–1963), the younger daughter of Charles Bierer Wrightsman, an oil millionaire whose collection of French furniture and decorative arts fills several galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.The couple had a son, Dana Wrightsman Dantine, before divorcing in 1950.His ex-wife claimed Dantine was after her father's money.