Actress Ginger Rogers and her actor husband William Marshall reading by candlelight, June 1961. Photograph by Nina Leen. LIFE. Their marriage may have failed in part due to The Confession (1964), produced by Marshall and starring Rogers, which was not released until 1971 and was not a success. They divorced in 1971, after his bouts with alcohol, and the financial collapse of their joint film production company. Surce: books0977.tumblr....