Can two young lovers keep the music playing for a lifetime?
Dolly and Paul met in their teens, fell passionately in love, married at twenty-one and for fifty years shared what many considered a storybook marriage. Blessed in the art of love, they used romance to shape their lives. Like most marriages, there’s did not escape untested. There were serious challenges along the way, yet together they never let anything alter their love for one another.
Then one tragic day, and with little warning, death took Dolly, and nearly destroyed Paul’s desire to live. To go on without his constant lover was the greatest test he would ever face.
Love & Stardust is a true story of young love; a passionate marriage, heart-breaking loss and the uphill mental struggle Paul battled before choosing life again.
“The moment I saw her I knew there would never be any other girl for me. Is that crazy? Of course it is, and yet when it happened, I knew. With the absolute certainty of youth, I knew.”
– Paul Marshall, Love & Stardust
“Cary Grant was my style hero, so I copied his signature tan trench coat and am wearing it in a picture captured by one of those street photographers that used to work Chicago’s famous State Street. We were 18 years old and I was feeling quite sophisticated.”
– Paul Marshall, Love & Stardust
“Dolly is my golden girl. The moment we met, I found I suddenly believed in angels. She was a star that seemed to burn too bright for this world, as if Venus had kissed her softly on her brow, and there she was in all her perfection. I adored her instantly.”
– Paul Marshall, Love & Stardust
“The dark clouds that once filled my head had finally scattered, so in 1980 we traveled to the US Virgin Islands with our friend Bryan Dunigan, our first major trip since my problems had begun. It was pure joy to travel free of anxiety.”
– Paul Marshall, Love & Stardust