Old time actors and directors that you were surprised to find out were married to each other once upon a time

It's remarkable how many high profile men Pam Grier almost married. To this day she's never been married at all.

Didn't know she and Rosey Grier were cousins until a minute ago.

Oh wait, that is not true, I don't think. More internet amping of RONG.

Her story about her and Richard Pryor is something too (see Wikipedia).

After I read her autobiography, Foxy, I very much wanted to start a "10 Most WTF Moments in Pam Grier's Foxy" poll, but chickened out. I mean, with some of her stories, I'm not sure how factually I'm supposed to take them. They sound so fanciful, often relying on strange coincidences and serendipities and odd assumptions.

Yeah, I left the Richard Pryor story for you to mention. Plus it's Richard Pryor so somewhat expected, I think. I had my eye on Foxy recently. Do you recommend?

Sure, Foxy is fun to read whether or not there is an unreliable narrator issue clouding the narrative

So you are saying maybe the KAJ story is not quite true?

Yes. I'd like to hear his version of the story, which I have a hunch would be different.

For years, I thought Debbie Harry and Chris Stein were married.

Polly Platt and Peter Bogdanovich were a fantastic creative team. I'm sure he regretted dumping her for Cybill Shepherd.

The Pryor-Grier story being referred to popped up once as one of Ilana's WTF deep pop culture references on Broad City.

KAJ story here.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/15/magazine/pam-grier-interview.html
It seems to get more embellished every time I see another version. I can believe the gist of it is true but not sure about all the details.

Also, Stanley Donen and Yvette Mimieux from 1972 to 1985.

― Hideous Lump, Monday, February 25, 2019 9:58 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Noticed that in her obit, had heard it before...ON HERE!

Hmm well the dates almost check out, since KAJ married the other woman two days after Grier’s birthday and the supposed ultimatum

Ernest Borgnine & Ethel Merman were married for almost five hot months in 1964.

Thrice-wed Merman married twice-wed Ernest Borgnine in 1964. The couple separated just 11 days after the wedding and Borgnine filed for divorce on October 21, charging extreme mental cruelty. They had announced their impending nuptials at the legendary New York night spot P.J. Clarke's, but Borgnine, who was riding high as the star of McHale's Navy (1962) at the time, said the marriage began unraveling on their honeymoon, when he received more fan attention than she did. The competitive Merman was left seething. "By the time we got home, it was hell on earth," Borgnine recalled in a 2001 interview. "And after 32 days I said to her, 'Madam, bye'." Merman filed a cross-complaint shortly thereafter charging Borgnine with extreme cruelty. She was granted a divorce on November 18, 1964, after 22 minutes of testimony. Borgnine went on to marry a fourth time, but Merman remained single after her divorce. In her 1978 biography, she devoted a chapter of her autobiography to the marriage: It consisted of one blank page.

We never mentioned that one before? Borgnine was also married to Katy Jurado at one point.

Guess not. We’ve been saving it up I guess. Morbs mentioned it on the TCM alert thread.

María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez (July 18, 1908 – December 14, 1944), known professionally as Lupe Vélez, was a Mexican actress, dancer, and singer during the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Lupe_V%C3%A9lez_in_1941.jpg/330px-Lupe_V%C3%A9lez_in_1941.jpg

Relationships and marriage
Vélez was involved in several highly publicized and often stormy relationships. Upon arriving in Los Angeles, she was linked to actors Tom Mix, Charlie Chaplin and Clark Gable.[53] Her first long-term, high-profile relationship was with Gary Cooper. Vélez and Cooper met while filming 1929s Wolf Song and began a two-year relationship that was passionate and often stormy.[60] When angered, Vélez was reported to have physically assaulted Cooper. Cooper eventually ended the relationship in mid-1931, at the behest of his mother Alice who after meeting her, strongly disapproved of Vélez.[51] With plans to marry him gone, she spoke to the press in 1931: "I turned Cooper down because his parents didn't want me to marry him and because the studio thought it would injure his career. Now its over, I'm glad I feel so free ... I must be free. I know men too well they are all the same, no? If you love them they want to be boss. I will never have a boss."[51] The rocky relationship had taken its toll on Cooper, who had lost 45 pounds and was suffering from nervous exhaustion. Paramount Pictures ordered him to take a vacation to recuperate and while he was boarding the train, Vélez showed up at the station and fired a pistol at him.[52]

After her breakup with Cooper, Vélez began a short-lived relationship with actor John Gilbert. They began dating in late 1931, while Gilbert was separated from his third wife Ina Claire.[61] Rumors of an engagement were fueled by the couple,[62] but Gilbert ended the relationship in early 1932, and attempted to reconcile with Claire.[53][61]

Vélez and Johnny Weissmuller photographed shortly after their wedding in October 1933
Shortly thereafter, Vélez met Tarzan actor Johnny Weissmuller while the two were in New York. They dated off and on when they returned to Los Angeles, while Vélez also dated actor Errol Flynn.[63] On October 8, 1933, Vélez and Weissmuller were married in Las Vegas.[64] There were reports of domestic violence and public fights.[49] In July 1934, after ten months of marriage, Vélez filed for divorce citing "cruelty". She withdrew the petition a week later after reconciling with Weissmuller.[65] On January 3, 1935, she filed for divorce a second time and was granted an interlocutory decree.[66] That decree was dismissed when the couple reconciled a month later. In August 1938, Vélez filed for divorce for a third time, again charging Weissmuller with cruelty. Their divorce was finalized in August 1939.[67]

After the divorce became final, Vélez began dating polo player Guinn "Big Boy" Williams in late 1940. The couple were engaged,[68] but never married.[69][70] In late 1941, she became involved with author Erich Maria Remarque. Actress Luise Rainer recalled that Remarque told her "with the greatest of glee" that he found Vélez's volatility wonderful when he recounted to her an occasion where Vélez became so angry with him that she took her shoe off and hit him with it.[71] After dating Remarque, Vélez was linked to boxers Jack Johnson and Jack Dempsey.[53]

In 1943, Vélez began an affair with her La Zandunga co-star Arturo de Córdova. De Córdova had recently moved to Los Angeles after signing with Paramount. Despite the fact that de Córdova was married to Mexican actress Enna Arana with whom he had four children, Vélez granted an interview to gossip columnist Louella Parsons in September 1943 and announced that the two were engaged. She told Parsons that she planned to retire after marrying de Córdova to "cook ... and keep house".[72] Vélez ended the engagement in early 1944, after de Córdova's wife refused to give him a divorce.

Vélez then met and began dating a struggling young Austrian actor named Harald Maresch, whose stage name was Harald Ramond. In September 1944, she discovered she was pregnant with Ramond's child. She announced their engagement in late November 1944.[36] On December 10, four days before her death, Vélez announced she had ended the engagement and kicked Ramond out of her home.[73]
Committed suicide, left a note saying why, but also much ridic and some fugly in section Alternative Theories and Urban Legend, incl. ridic x fugly passage in Hollywood Babylon, later a runny joek,
that kind of treatment sure didn't start with Britney
---but also Velez had quite a career in Mexico and Hollywood:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupe_V%C3%A9lez

Although the Alternative Theories don't always read as contrived: she was known for wild behavior, and
In the book From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture, Rosa-Linda Fregoso wrote that Vélez was known for her defiance of contemporary moral convention, and that it seems unlikely that she could not have reconciled having a child out of wedlock. Fregoso believes that in the final year of her life, Vélez exhibited signs of extreme mania and depression. Fregoso goes on to speculate that Vélez's death may have been the result of an untreated mental illness such as bipolar disorder.[41]

I’ll get around to reading that post over the next 6 months or so, but I just wanted to say, “From Bananas to Buttocks” is a great title

Indeed---back to thread relevance:

Barbara Ann Loden (July 8, 1932 – September 5, 1980) was an American actress and director of film and theater.[1][2] Richard Brody of The New Yorker described Loden as the "female counterpart to John Cassavetes".[3]

Born and raised in North Carolina, Loden began her career at an early age in New York City as a commercial model and chorus-line dancer. Loden became a regular sidekick on the irreverent Ernie Kovacs Television Show in the mid-1950s and was a lifetime member of the famed Actors Studio. She appeared in several projects directed by her second husband, Elia Kazan, including Splendor in the Grass (1961). Her subsequent performance in a 1964 Broadway production of After the Fall earned her a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress.
...In 1960, Loden appeared in Elia Kazan's film Wild River as Montgomery Clift's secretary. She was perhaps better known for her role in Splendor in the Grass (1961), in which she played Warren Beatty's sister.[14]

She famously portrayed Maggie, a fictionalized version of Marilyn Monroe, in Kazan's Lincoln Center Repertory Company stage production of After the Fall (1964), which was written by Monroe's former husband, playwright Arthur Miller.[15] Loden received a Tony award for best actress for her performance in After the Fall as well as an annual award of the Outer Circle, an organization of writers who covered Broadway for national magazines.[1] After the Fall reviews called Loden the "new Jean Harlow" and a "blonde bombshell." Loden recalled in 1980 that she was drawn to the part because the script reflected her own life experiences.

Loden married her first husband, film and television producer and film distributor Larry Joachim, in the 1950s, and they had a son, Marco.[16] 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.[17] 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.[10]

Kazan could be contemptuous when describing his relationship with Loden. In his autobiography, Elia Kazan: A Life, he revealed his desire and inability to control her. Kazan wrote about Loden "with a mix of affection and patronization, emphasizing her sexuality and her backcountry feistiness."[10] In a "condescending" way, Kazan bemoaned that Loden had depended on her "sexual appeal" to get ahead and that he was afraid of "losing her."[18] But Kazan was also, in his words, "protective" of Loden.[10] In turn, Loden felt inferior to Kazan.

Her acting career on film had a troubled history. Her first major film role was to be in the Frank Perry-directed The Swimmer starring Burt Lancaster, but during post-production there was a dispute about the scene between producer Sam Spiegel and the film's writer-director team, the Perrys. According to notes by screenwriter Eleanor Perry, Spiegel began showing the troubled rough cut of the film around Hollywood, polling several of his famous film director friends about what he should do with it.[19] Kazan was a major film director who had great influence. He had also secretly been shown a private screening of the film by his friend and producer Spiegel (producer of Kazan's On the Waterfront) and had reportedly interfered with the final cut.[19] Perry was ultimately fired from the film. Several of the film's scenes were recast and reshot by Sydney Pollack, who was hired to replace Perry, with Lancaster reportedly paying for some of the reshoots himself.[19][20] Among the scenes that were entirely recast and reshot was the notorious Loden scene, with Broadway stage actress Janice Rule replacing Loden. Neither Loden nor Pollack was credited on the film. All that remains of the lost scene are still photos taken on set, which appear in Chris Innis's 2014 documentary The Story of The Swimmer.[20]

1967–1980: Film and theater directing
At some point during her acting career, Loden came across a newspaper article about a woman who, when on trial for accomplice to bank robbery, thanked the judge for her own sentencing.[21] Intrigued by this story, she eventually wrote the screenplay for Wanda, an existential[dubious – discuss] rumination on a poverty-stricken woman adrift in Pennsylvania coal country who becomes embroiled in a similar plot. After sending the script to a number of potential directors, Loden felt that they "didn't seem to understand what this woman was about."[22] Fortuitously, her friend Harry Schuster had offered Loden financing for the film, so she directed it herself in collaboration with cinematographer and editor Nicholas T. Proferes on a meager budget of $115,000.[10]

Wanda is a semi-autobiographical portrait of a "passive, disconnected coal miner's wife who attaches herself to a petty crook."[10] Innovative in its cinéma vérité and improvisational style, it was one of the few American films directed by a woman to be theatrically released at that time. Film critic David Thomson wrote, "Wanda is full of unexpected moments and raw atmosphere, never settling for cliché in situation or character." The film was the only American film accepted by the Venice Film Festival in 1970, where it won the International Critics' Prize, and the only American film presented at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.[10][23] In 2010, with support from Gucci, the film was restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and screened at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.[10]

Although Wanda never received proper distribution, screening briefly in New York and at universities but never nationally on the theater circuit,[24] it was noted for its groundbreaking anti-Hollywood view of a woman adrift in the American underworld. Loden said of her title character, "She's trying to get out of this very ugly type of existence, but she doesn't have the equipment"—an independent-minded idea for a cinematic heroine at the time, making Wanda an anti-heroine.[25] In 2017, Wanda was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[26]

While Loden never made another feature film, she directed two educational short films for the Learning Corporation of America.[27] The first one, The Frontier Experience, was released in 1975. It depicts a widowed pioneer woman, played by Loden, in Kansas attempting to survive the harsh winter with her children. Described as a "political prequel"[28] to Wanda, the short explores similar themes. The second, The Boy Who Liked Deer, was released in 1978.[29] It is a cautionary tale about vandalism, in which two boys accidentally poison a deer.

Four months before her death, Loden was interviewed in Katja Raganelli's 1980 documentary I Am Wanda.[30] The film documents Loden's final months, when she taught acting classes.

Death
In 1978, Loden was diagnosed with breast cancer.[31] At the time, she had completed several other screenplays with Proferes that Kazan described as "devoted to the neglected side of American life." She and Kazan were estranged at the time of her cancer diagnosis and planning to divorce, but her illness precluded their separation.[31] In June 1980, Loden was working with her acting teacher Paul Mann on a one-act play to be shown on Off-Off-Broadway. She had planned to work as director, producer, and leading actress, but lost the energy to complete the project. In a retrospective, she said "my life was hard too much of the time", but also that she had made her peace with life.[32]

At the time of her diagnosis, Loden was prepared to direct a feature about Kate Chopin's The Awakening, but her cancer treatments prevented her from starting it.[13] She died at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City from the disease on September 5, 1980.[1][10]

Style and themes
Wanda has a cinéma vérité style. Loden rejected Hollywood style, wanting to only present the world "as it actually is".[33] She worked mainly with non-professional actors, which resulted in the film's original script being loosely referenced. The film was made with a skeleton crew of only four people. These two factors led to the film's improvisational style. The visuals in the film were inspired by several Andy Warhol films.[34]
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Loden

Sorry for the Velez post, which isn't thread-relevant and hella long, but what a life.

Lesley-Anne Warren & Jon Peters

Griffin Dunne & Carey Lowell

Not married, not that surprising and maybe even TMI but, just for the record I present:
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/04/rita-moreno-marlon-brando-lust-of-my-life

Two actors: Kurt Russell and Season Hubley. The latter is not well-known to me except as a vaguely remembered name but maybe they belong here because they met whilst playing Elvis and Priscilla.

Melina Mercouri and Jules Dassin:

https://images.wisconsinhistory.org/700007080017/0708000295-l.jpg

Fascinated with her after watching Phaedra the other day, despite the very miscast Anthony Perkins. Love that Dassin set a scene in the British Museum's Elgin Marbles room, given her campaign to have them returned to Greece.

Young Margaret Sullivan got rave reviews in a string of what were adjudged to be fuck-terrible plays, and some better ones (so good in also pre-Hollywood Preston Sturges'Strictly Dishonorable that even her parents shuddup about being on the road to etc). Dunno how The Devil In The Cheese was, but she did that one w Henry Fonda and married him, for two months (they still worked together, like in the movie The Moon's Our Home: Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell were brought in to punch up the dialogue, reportedly at Sullavan's insistence. Sullavan and Fonda play a newly-married couple, and the movie is a cavalcade of insults and quips.
Later took up with big time Broadway director Jed Harris, ladykiller and legendary asshole:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_Harris
Then married William Wyler, whom she met when he cast her (and she agreed, known to be a picky dame) in The Good Fairy:
The Good Fairy is a 1935 romantic comedy film written by Preston Sturges, based on the 1930 play A jó tündér by Ferenc Molnár as translated and adapted by Jane Hinton, which was produced on Broadway in 1931. The film was directed by William Wyler and stars Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan and Reginald Owen.

Sturges' screenplay diverges significantly from the Molnár play, and later became the basis for the book of the 1951 Broadway musical Make a Wish.[1] Sturges wrote a scene for a movie-within-the-movie, in which the leading man responds to the leading lady's impassioned pleading with the single word "Go", delivered in varying tones.
Guess you have to see it, and I hope to, kinda, considering the talent involved (I want to believe).

More to my interest is one she battled for,
Cry 'Havoc' (1943) is a World War II drama and a rare all-female film. Sullavan played the strong mother figure who keeps a crew of nurses in line in a dugout in Bataan, while they are awaiting the advance of Japanese soldiers who are about to take over. It was the last film Sullavan made with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After its completion, she was free of all film commitments. She had often referred to MGM and Universal as "jails". When her husband, Leland Hayward, tried to read her the good reviews of Cry 'Havoc', she responded with usual bluntness: "You read them, use them for toilet paper. I had enough hell with that damned picture while making it – I don't want to read about it now!"[16)

Yes, agent Leland Hayward was her husband after Wyler. She got sick of the movie biz and went back to the stage, also said it was so she could spend more time with their kids(?) Didn't work that well: eventually, the kids demanded to live full-time with their father (in Hollywood, not NYC, apparently): a crushed and crushing scene in daughter Brooke Hayward's memoir,Haywire(Brooke's suicidal sister and brother may have inherited depression of their mother, whose death by barbiturates was ruled suicide).
If that weren't bad enough, Brooke, also a sucessful actress, married---Dennis Hopper.

Hopper was married five times:

Brooke Hayward, married 1961 – divorced 1969, 1 child, daughter Marin Hopper (b. 1962)Met him when they were in a stage production of Mandingo, of all things; look it up. Also studied with Strasberg, and She delivered a memorable performance in the Twilight Zone episode "The Masks" in March 1964 And here she is with Groucho on GE Theater, both looking cool (bring back anthology TV!)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Groucho_Marx_Brooke_Hayward_General_Electric_Theater_1961.jpg
Hayward and Groucho Marx in the General Electric Theater presentation of "The Hold Out", 1961
Her last screen appearance was in a small role in John Guare's 1993 film adaptation of Six Degrees of Separation, with Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland, and Will Smith. Also cool, and she's still with us.

His next: Michelle Phillips; married October 31, 1970 – divorced November 8, 1970 When my friend's marriage ended, he quoted Phillips' father, to the effect, "That was their Halloween." Didn't know she did so much acting, but she did. Was The Last Movie, for instance. Also a solo album I'd kinda like to hear

Then:
Daria Halprin; married 1972 – divorced 1976, 1 child, daughter Ruthanna Hopper (b. 1972) Knew her from Zabriskie Point of course, but before that, In 1968, she appeared in Revolution, a documentary by Jack O'Connell. Shot mainly in San Francisco, the film depicted the counterculture movement and featured a series of interviews with that city’s hippie residents.
After Zabriskie Point, she and co-star Mark Frechette alprin briefly joined self-styled guru Mel Lyman, a former member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, and his 100-member commune.[3]

In 1972, Halprin appeared in John Flynn's thriller The Jerusalem File.

Not too distracted by Hopper, n the 1970s, Halprin developed an interest in creative arts therapy. In 1978, she and her mother Anna founded the Tamalpa Institute[4] and developed the Halprin Process. She has written The Expressive Body in Life, Art and Therapy and Coming Alive: The Creative Expression Method, and she was a contributing author to Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy.

Was *in* The Last Movie, I meant to say.
Come in now, Number Three:
Katherine LaNasa; married June 17, 1989 – divorced April 1992, 1 child, son Henry Lee Hopper (b. 1990)
Ballet dancer, choreographer, and actress, who for instance did a whole helluva lotta TV, including:
LaNasa guest starred on number of television series, including Seinfeld, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Touched by an Angel, and The Practice, and in 2001 landed the lead role of Bess Bernstein-Flynn Keats in the NBC comedy series Three Sisters (2001–2002) opposite Dyan Cannon, A. J. Langer, and Vicki Lewis.[4] The series was cancelled after two seasons in 2002.[5] She later had recurring roles in Judging Amy as Yvonne Dunbar, as Kim McPherson on The Guardian, and as Michelle Colohan on NYPD Blue
... In 2011, after a decade of making various television appearances, she had roles opposite Will Ferrell and Zack Galifianakis in the 2012 political comedy The Campaign, and 2013 thriller The Frozen Ground.[8] Before this, she had a role in Billy Bob Thornton's drama film Jayne Mansfield's Car, originally created for Robin Wright.[8] Among other movies. Later a reg in reboot of Dynasty, scheduled for 2019 Apple TV w Octavia Spencer, but oh yeah about the matrimony:
LaNasa, at the age of 22, married 53-year-old actor Dennis Hopper in June 1989;[2] the couple divorced in April 1992. Hopper and LaNasa had a son, Henry Lee Hopper (born 1990).[16]

On May 19, 1998, she married actor French Stewart.[17] They met when she made a guest appearance on a 1996 episode ("Green-Eyed Dick") of 3rd Rock from the Sun.[18] The two later divorced.[17] In July 2012, LaNasa became engaged to actor Grant Show, marrying him a few weeks later, on August 18.[19][20] She gave birth to the couple's first child, daughter Eloise McCue, on March 21, 2014.[21][22]

No wiki article on the last wife, but---don't read this without an airsick bag, I meant it:
Divorce from Victoria Duffy
On January 14, 2010, Hopper filed for divorce from his fifth wife Victoria Duffy.[57] After citing her "outrageous conduct" and stating she was "insane", "inhuman" and "volatile", Hopper was granted a restraining order against her on February 11, 2010, and as a result, she was forbidden to come within 10 feet (3 m) of him or contact him.[58] On March 9, 2010, Duffy refused to move out of the Hopper home, despite the court's order that she do so by March 15.[59]

On March 23, 2010, he filed papers in court alleging Duffy had absconded with US$1.5 million of his art, refused his requests to return it, and then had "left town".[60]

On April 5, 2010, a court ruled that Duffy could continue living on Hopper's property, and that he must pay US$12,000 per month spousal and child support for their daughter Galen. Hopper did not attend the hearing.[61] On May 12, 2010, a hearing was held before Judge Amy Pellman in downtown Los Angeles Superior Court. Though Hopper died two weeks later, Duffy insisted at the hearing that he was well enough to be deposed.[62] The hearing also dealt with whom to designate on Hopper's life insurance policy, which listed his wife as a beneficiary.[63] A very ill Hopper did not appear in court though his estranged wife did. Despite Duffy's bid to be named the sole beneficiary of Hopper's million-dollar policy, the judge ruled against her and limited her claim to one-quarter of the policy. The remaining US$750,000 was to go to his estate.[64]

On November 14, 2010, it was revealed that, despite Duffy's earlier assertion in her court papers of February 2010 that Hopper was mentally incompetent and that his children had rewritten his estate plan in order to leave Duffy and her daughter, Hopper's youngest child Galen, destitute, Galen would in fact receive the proceeds of 40% of his estate.[65]

Illness and death

Hopper at a ceremony to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 26, 2010, two months before his death
On September 28, 2009, Hopper, then 73, was reportedly taken by ambulance to an unidentified Manhattan hospital wearing an oxygen mask and "with numerous tubes visible".[66] On October 2, he was discharged, after receiving treatment for dehydration.[67]

On October 29, 2009, Hopper's manager Sam Maydew reported that he had been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer.[68] In January 2010, it was reported that Hopper's cancer had metastasized to his bones.[69]

On March 18, 2010, he was honored with the 2,403rd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of Grauman's Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.[70] Surrounded by friends including Jack Nicholson, Viggo Mortensen, David Lynch, Michael Madsen, family and fans, he attended its addition to the sidewalk six days later.[71]

By March 2010, Hopper reportedly weighed only 100 pounds (45 kg) and was unable to carry on long conversations.[72] According to papers filed in his divorce court case, Hopper was terminally ill and was unable to undergo chemotherapy to treat his prostate cancer.[73][74]

Hopper died at his home in the coastal Venice district of Los Angeles, aged 74, on the morning of May 29, 2010.[75] His funeral took place on June 3, 2010, at San Francisco de Asis Mission Church in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. His body was buried at the Jesus Nazareno Cemetery in Ranchos de Taos.

The film Alpha and Omega, which was among his last film roles, was dedicated to him, as was the 2011 film Restless, which starred his son Henry Hopper.

Doesn't really work since the guy is a producer and not well-known but the list of bridesmaids gives an extra connection to this thread:

After the release of MASH, on December 17, 1970, Kellerman married Starsky & Hutch producer Rick Edelstein. Anjanette Comer, Morgan Ames, Lisabeth Hush, Joanne Linville, and Luana Anders were among her bridesmaids.  On March 6, 1972, Kellerman divorced Edelstein, citing irreconcilable differences.

Actually there is some more interesting stuff right after that in the Wikipedia article.

Wim Wenders and Ronee Blakley

He was also married to Isabelle Weingarten, who Bresson cast in Quatre Nuits d'une rêveur (in addition to a couple of actresses probably best known for working on his own films).

Wow, great find! She was also in La maman et la putain. Her Wikipedia page claims she was married to Olivier Assayas, but that doesn't seem to be correct.

It may be true? She seems to have been working mostly as a photographer at that point.

They seemed to have worked together and had some kind of relationship, not sure about marriage. Her wiki page also says she “starred” in La maman et la putain, which is not quite true.

IMDB just says relationship.

Have learned that in the 1980s before marrying into the Kardashians, Caitlyn Jenner was married to Linda Thompson. The same Linda Thompson who dated Elvis Presley 1972-1976, and who later became a successful songwriter.

Linda Thompson did some acting too, so qualifies for the thread

Another good find.

Posted this on rong thread, here tis!
Didn't know about her songwriting, did semi-recall that she and then-Bruce co-starred in a musical, Little Abner (he: Abner, she: Daisy Mae), Birmingham, https://www.al.com/entertainment/2015/04/bruce_jenner_on_stage_before_t.html (this from 2015, so no mention of Caitlyn). My friend's sister was in it, remembers Linda as gregarious, him as shy, but "stuck his head in the door, 'Hey, I'm Bruce.' ")

Linda also co-subject of this TV movie, which I thought was pretty good:
Elvis and the Beauty Queen

Memphis beauty queen Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist) recalls her five-year romance with Elvis Presley (Don Johnson).
Initial release: March 1, 1981
Director: Gus Trikonis
Starring: Don Johnson; Stephanie Zimbalist; Ann Dusenberry; Rick Lenz
Music by: Allyn Ferguson
Distributed by: NBC, Sony Pictures Television

― dow, Friday, February 25, 2022 1:34 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Speaking of director Gus Trikonis, He began his career as an actor and dancer, notably appearing in the hugely successful 1961 film West Side Story as Indio, one of the "Sharks",[1] as well as dancing with Debbie Reynolds and Grover Dale to the frantic "He's My Friend" in 1964's The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
...Trikonis was married to actress Goldie Hawn from 1969 to 1976; he was her first husband and they have the same birthday. His sister is Gina Trikonis, an actress who also appeared in West Side Story, as Graziella, Riff's girlfriend.[3] Way to go, Gus! (Hope he wasn't too bad, Goldie.)

― dow, Friday, February 25

No mention of new name in that 2015 piece, but eventually in there: He'll be in another spotlight Friday night at 8 p.m. on ABC, when an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer airs. Topics? The Kardashians, a recent fatal car wreck that involved the gold medalist, and long-standing rumors that he is taking steps to become a woman.

She married producers, not directors, but wow---didn't realize she'd had such a career, despite, as she says, not jumping at chance to capitalize on the success of M*A*S*H*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Kellerman
Guardian obit adds some detail about making of that movie and aftermath, also later gigs:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/feb/27/sally-kellerman-obituary
Xgau's review of her first (early 70s) album sympathized w her and other actors' non-Broadway musical ventures getting automatically dismissed or low-rated back then--review's not on his site, but think I read it in his 70s Record Guide---nope, not there either! Maybe it was another actress?? Wiki sez she released another album in 2009---also, For a time in the mid-1970s, Kellerman was involved with Mark Farner of the rock group Grand Funk Railroad. He wrote the song "Sally", from the 1976 album Born to Die, as an ode to their relationship. Wonder how it compares to "Rosanna"? Is there a thread for songs about actresses?

was merlin olsen married to belinda carlyle?

Songs about specific actresses

I always thought the Velvets' New Age was about the Norma Desmond character in Sunset Boulevard.

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Friday, January 13, 2012 10:24 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Mary Beth Hurt and Paul Schrader

Acclaimed novelist and director of 92 in the Shade (1975) Thomas McGuane was married to Margot Kidder in the 1970s. Earlier in the '70s he had had an affair with Elizabeth Ashley.

McGuane had a non-celeb first wife who Peter Fonda later married. McGuane evened the score by marrying Fonda's ex-wife Laurie Buffett, sister of Jimmy Buffett (I was reminded of this by the excellent Jimmy Buffett article in the current New Yorker magazine.