Regarding his marriage to Joan Bradshaw on May 14, 1961, in Hedda Hopper's "Looking at Hollywood" column dated June 15, 1961, she writes, "When Joan Bradshaw married Frank Ross she promised to give up her acting career forever. So Sue Ladd, Leonora Hamilton, Dorothy Malone, Letitia Fairbanks, and Terry Moore gave her a luncheon to celebrate that decision".