 Dolivet was introduced by Michael Straight to his sister, actress Beatrice Whitney Straight, in Washington DC, and several months later, on February 22, 1942, Dolivet married her in Polk County, Iowa.At the time, Dolivet was a speaker at the National Farm Institute and Straight was in the middle of the mid-west road show of "Twelfth Night".Straight's mother, Dorothy Elmhirst and stepfather, Leonard K. Elmhirst attended the wedding, along with her brother Michael Straight and his wife, Belinda Crompton.