Anticipating that she was going to leave him, he had seriously considered killing her lover, but then reconsidered and decided it would be better to kill her instead, before she took off with her wealth:I began to wonder what would happen if she left me.Cohan inYankee Doodle Dandy (1942).In this first musical portrayal, he starred as briefly-unemployed, enterprising and lively (yet crazed) Broadway heatrical-musical producer Chester Kent, with Joan Blondell as his loyal, faithful, dedicated and long-suffering secretary Nan Prescott who looked after him.Kaufman didn""t believe Riley, since he could hear and see fiery explosions near Fiddler""s Green (due to the zombies) in the streets below.Mark""s bloodied body laid nearby, noticed by Alice as she awakened.At the same ime, Yvonne awakened with a start in the jacuzzi in the school gym.Mark""s body was taken away by ambulance, with police reporting that Mark had died in his loft when crushed beneath collapsed shelving not up to code.