Editing Colleen Dewhurst (section)

==Personal life and final years==
[[File:HarrisHouse FortuneBridgePE Wide.jpg|thumb|right|Dewhurst's summer home at Fortune Bridge, Prince Edward Island, was built by the playwright [[Elmer Blaney Harris]]. It is a private inn as of August 2008.]]

Colleen Dewhurst was married to James Vickery from 1947 to 1960. She married and divorced [[George C. Scott]] twice. They had two sons, Alexander Scott and actor [[Campbell Scott]]; she co-starred with Campbell in ''[[Dying Young]]'' (1991), one of her last film roles as she died in August 1991.{{Citation needed |date=January 2022}}

During the last years of her life she lived on a farm in South Salem, New York, with her partner Ken Marsolais. They also had a summer home on Prince Edward Island, Canada.{{Citation needed |date=January 2022}}

[[Maureen Stapleton]] wrote about Dewhurst:
<blockquote>Colleen looked like a warrior, so people assumed she was the earth mother. But in real life Colleen was not to be let out without a keeper. She couldn't stop herself from taking care of people, which she then did with more care than she took care of herself. Her generosity of spirit was overwhelming and her smile so dazzling that you couldn't pull the&nbsp;... reins in on her even if you desperately wanted to and knew damn well that somebody should.<ref name=autob>Dewhurst, Colleen; Viola, Tom (1997). ''Colleen Dewhurst – Her Autobiography''. [[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]]; {{ISBN|978-0-684-80701-0}}</ref></blockquote>

Dewhurst's Christian Science beliefs<ref>Susan Ware (editor), ''Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century'', Volume 5, pages 174-175 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2004). {{ISBN|9780674014886}}</ref> led to her refusal to accept any kind of surgical treatment. She died of cervical cancer at the age 67 at her South Salem home in 1991. She was cremated and her ashes were given to family and friends; no public service was planned.{{Citation needed |date=January 2022}}