 B. D. met Jeremy Hyman (b 1933 London), the British nephew of Seven Arts Productions owner Eliot Hyman, on a blind date for the film's showing at the Cannes Film Festival, in 1963, and the couple married when B. D. was age 16 and Jeremy was age 29.Her mother Bette Davis gave her consent and publicly supported their marriage.The couple remained married for over 50 years until Jeremy Hyman’s death in November of 2017.