After an affair while they were both married to other people, Loden married film Director Elia Kazan, who was twenty-three years her senior. Though the couple had become estranged and had previously considered divorce, they were still married at the time of her death from breast cancer at the age of 48. She had one child, Leo, with Kazan. Loden had another child, Marco, by her first husband, film and television Producer and film distributor, Larry Joachim, whom she had married in the 1950s.