Neil Simon was in the middle of a busy career when his wife, Joan Baim, died in 1973. Her untimely passing devastated the playwright and his two young daughters. Simon’s struggle to come to ...

They married after the summer, and Joan’s mother, Helen Baim, noted that they forced a ... kind of partner — artists like Fosse and Neil Simon who wanted to be the only star in the night ...

Simon opens up and provides a revealing portrait of himself that focuses on his early theatrical successes and around his first love – his wife, Joan Baim Simon. She died July 11, 1973 ...

His first wife, Joan Baim, died. His marriage to actress Marsha Mason ended in divorce. Simon and Lander met when she was handing out perfume samples at Neiman-Marcus in Beverly Hills. The Tampa ...