 On 30 March 1937 Eddie married actress Molly Lamont settling down in Los Angeles (Brentwood) California.Not long after they wed Molly went for her first airplane ride, with Eddie on one of his TWA flights, rather than be separated from her new hubby.Eddie retired from TWA in January 1943 as their number two pilot with more than 23,000 hours of flight time and 3,100,000 miles traveled without injury to a passenger or mail cargo.