When they were shooting The Rains Came, Myrna´s marriage with Arthur Hornblow Jr. was on the rocks and she was having a hard time. And even though she never mentioned a word of her problems to Tyrone, he seemed to sense something and he “made it his own business” to cheer her up by approaching with a long-stemmed bird of paradise in a Coke bottle, bowing and making a grand gesture of presenting it to her. "That typified the little things he would do. I’m sorry to report that we weren’t lovers, but close to it. I loved him, but he was married to that damn Frenchwoman.”