The wedding of Martha Morris, dubbed the “Cinderella Bride” by the Torrance Herald, to Swiss industrialist Roland DeVigier in 1951 sounds like one of those modern-day I’m-gonna-marry-a-prince movies on the Hallmark Channel. At first, anyway. The 16-year-old Morris lived with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ray Morris, on 215th St. in the Harbor GatewayContinue reading “Torrance teen’s whirlwind wedding to Swiss businessman caused a sensation in the 1950s”
Sam Gnerre looks at the way we were in the South Bay
