Editing William Demarest (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Estelle Collette.png|thumb|Demarest's first wife<ref>{{cite news| title=New Life Member| newspaper=Vaudeville News| url=http://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=VVN19210930&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-calneh------#| page=8| date=September 30, 1921| via=University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign University Library Digital Collections| access-date=January 20, 2021}}</ref>]]

Demarest was married twice. His first wife was his vaudeville partner Estelle Collette, born Esther Zichlin.<ref>"New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938", subscribed online database, Carl William Demarest and Esther (née Zichlin) Gordon, February 5, 1923; records of Manhattan, New York accessed via FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 29, 2022.</ref><ref name="JCL1927+">''Jewish Chronicle of London'', January 14, 1927, issue and June 14, 1907, issue. Obituary of her first husband Samuel Gordon (b. 1871 Buk, Bavaria, German Empire, m. June 12, 1907, Miss Esther Zichlin, "a violinist of great promise. There was one child of the marriage, a daughter.", d. 1927 in Wandsworth, London, England).</ref> Demarest helped raise her daughter, author Phyllis Gordon Demarest, from her earlier marriage, in 1907, to English poet and novelist [[Samuel Gordon (novelist)|Samuel Gordon]], who had divorced Zichlin before his death.<ref name="JCL1908">''Jewish Chronicle of London'', April 3, 1908, issue.</ref> Demarest's second wife was Lucille Thayer, born Lucille Theurer, whom he married in Prescott, Arizona, on August 31, 1942.<ref>"Arizona, County Marriages, 1871-1964," database with images, Carl William Demarest and Lucille Theurer, 31 August 1942 in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona; FHL microfilm record 004251853 in Arizona Department of Libraries, Archives, and Public Records, Phoenix. Original marriage documents accessed via FamilySearch, August 29, 2022.</ref> Thayer, who later became an activist on health issues in the motion picture industry, was appointed California's lay-chairman of the [[American Nurses Association]] in October 1960.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/|title=Ancestry® &#124; Family Tree, Genealogy & Family History Records|website=www.ancestry.com}}</ref>