 Loden married her first husband, film and television producer and film distributor Larry Joachim, in the 1950s, and they had a son, Marco.After an affair while they were both married to other people, Loden married film director Elia Kazan, who was 23 years her senior, in 1966.She had another son, Leo, with Kazan, and though estranged and considering divorce, they were still married at the time of her death from breast cancer at the age of 48.