This son, from his second marriage, James Abbe Jr was born in 1912; he also became a photographer and later an antiques dealer and worked in the 1940s "Harper's Bazaar". The marriage ended when James Abbe travelled to Italy in 1922 with a former Ziegfeld dancer Polly Platt, (née Mary Ann Shorrock) who was part of the company filming Ronald Colman and Lillian Gish in "The White Sister" (1923) on location in Rome and Naples for which Abbe took stills and advised on special photography. After filming was completed Abbe settled in Paris where his new wife Polly gave birth to the first of three children, Patience Shorrock Abbe on 22 July 1924, followed by Richard W. Abbe (1926-2000) and then John Abbe (born 1927).