Theirs was an improbable love affair: She, a beautiful, but troubled, young woman seeking to extricate herself from a disastrous marriage to an older man; He, a young playboy wannabe who believed that two dates constituted a long term, monogamous relationship. A chance encounter on a city sidewalk ignited a mutual infatuation. Almost immediately the infatuation became an unrestrained, passionate love affair that, despite family disapproval, a violent encounter with the husband, a long separation and legal turmoil, resulted in a marriage that defied the conventions and values of the 1950s....