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

RIP Jeanne Moreau

had a romance w/ Lee Marvin!

And Peter Handke, apparently.

https://handkeonline.onb.ac.at/sites/handkeonline.at/files/styles/fullscreen/public/images/pool/sph-lw-s69-1.jpg?itok=18mynEyj

Not a director but a writer: Hugu Claus and Sylvia Kristel
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/64/5e/d7/645ed73c422c4575c0b263f2aa6e2d70.jpg

HugO, sorry

Cliff Robertson & Dina Merrill

Dave Vanian and Patricia Morrisson!

Bricolage
Decoupage

Ha! Meant to post ^^ in the “I always get those two mixed up” thread.

Lol

Not that obscure, but Rip Torn and Geraldine Page

Albert Finney & Anouk Aimee

Talk about punching above your weight.

ikr, finney is such a fox

https://pleasurephotoroom.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/british-actor-albert-finney-with-his-girlfriend-anouk-aimee-at-a-london-airport-carrying-a-louis-vuitton-travel-case-photo-by-getty-images.jpg?w=450&h=671

Wow

I just recalled walking by the Bobby Van Steakhouse the other day.

Was looking at some old Time magazines at the library, and among the things I learned was that Shirley MacLaine and Pete Hamill (the journalist/Blood On The Tracks liner notes guy) were a couple for 5 years in the '70s.

This guy?
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BXgYOJDFL._SX308_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Yup!

It's casually mentioned that they'd just broken up in an article about a concert tour she gave just prior to the release of The Turning Point.

Trivia about that: They had first met in Rome in 1966, then a second time in '68 during Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign, but really got together around 1970 after Hamill read Maclaine's first book Don't Fall Off the Mountain and realized the two were both fans of the fictional character Bomba the Jungle Boy. Hamill tried to get her to move into his house in Brooklyn (a few doors up from where I live now), but Shirley didn't bite (Pete was also living with his two daughters at the time). Right around this time, 1970-1971, Maclaine appeared in the film Desperate Characters which was shot partially in Hamill's neighborhood, coincidentally or not. Shirley is credited with being the first woman served a drink at Farrell's Bar, one of Pete's old Brooklyn watering holes.

This one always fascinates, the writer Evan S. Connell Jr. and the singer Gail Garnett. Short romance, long friendship.
https://people.com/archive/the-creator-of-mr-and-mrs-bridge-goes-home-again-with-reluctance-and-no-thanks-for-the-memories-vol-34-no-23/
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-06-09/magazine/tm-822_1_author-connell/3

Margaret Whiting and Jack Wrangler

She was 22 years older and outlived him by 2 years.

Ok, maybe not all old time but some of the responses are wtf.

Cindy Sherman/Steve Martin, Desmond Morris/Diana Dors etc

what's your favorite "did you know these celebrities once dated or had a child together" fact you like to drop at parties

— rachel syme (@rachsyme) February 15, 2019

Did some research after screening BlacKKKlansman:

Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture and Miriam Makeba

Stanley Donen and Elaine May were together for the past 20 years.

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

Maybe everyone knows this but I somehow just learned about Elliott Gould and Barbra Streisand and I nearly plotzed. I’ve loved many of Gould’s movies for years but never bothered to learn anything about his personal life.

Mark Harmon and Pam Dawber have been married for over 30 years.

Not actors or directors but I didn't know where else to put this.

Stephen Stills and Veronique Sanson

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7c/a5/fb/7ca5fb237883a2b110eb9484eba2b350.jpg

William Wyler and Margaret Sullavan.

Lock thread!

Was reading some stuff about the Go-Gos recently, and was surprised to see that Charlotte Caffey and Bob Welch (the baseball player, not the Fleetwood Mac guy) dated, and that "Turn To You" was inspired by their breakup.

She's now married to Jeff McDonald from Redd Kross.

Think his brother’s wife is famous too, but can’t remember who right this second.

Oh yeah, Anna Waronker.

Can’t remember if they all hang out with Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill or not.

Also: Susana Hoffs & Jay Roach.

*bump* for recent Ronee Blakley Rolling Thunder activity

Not old time and not married, but was surprised a little to see that Karina Longworth & Rian Johnson are in a LTR.

Not sure if it totally qualifies, but Martha Vickers and Mickey Rooney.

Evelyn Keyes was married to someone I never heard of, then Charles Vidor, then John Huston, then later Artie Shaw, although being married to Artie Shaw, similar to being married Mickey Rooney, should probably not count.

Cherie Currie & Robert Hays
Inara George & Jake Kasdan

Janice Rule and Ben Gazzara

Cherie Currie & Robert Hays

0_o

Comedian David Brenner (b. 1936) and figure skater Tai Babilonia (b. 1959) from 2002-2009

I always seem to find these things while careening haphazardly around Wikipedia.

Only one them an actor but, Pinchas Zukerman and Tuesday Weld.

Another one that doesn’t quite work but still:
William Campbell and Judith Campbell Exner

don’t know where to put this so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Brandon_(actor)?wprov=sfti1

Brandon married in 1941, the marriage produced one son before ending in 1946.[2] He subsequently had a long relationship with the actor Mark Herron.[3] Herron left Brandon in the mid-1960s, and was briefly the fourth husband of Judy Garland. Herron and Garland separated after five months of marriage, after which Herron returned to Brandon and remained with him until Brandon's death.

Another one that doesn’t quite work but still:
Sidney Lumet and Gloria Vanderbilt

Michael J. Pollard & Beth Howland (Vera from "Alice")

Beth Howland & Charles Kimbrough (Jim Dial from "Murphy Brown")

Adjacent to the topic...

I didn't know that the guy who was married to Anna Karina at her death was also married to Jean Seberg at the time of her death (though they were separated). Dennis Berry, a bit actor in the 1960s, later a director

She's in this video for Tim Finn's Carve You In Marble:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_oOZz--Xfg

I love this song.

Evelyn Keyes was married to someone I never heard of, then Charles Vidor, then John Huston, then later Artie Shaw, although being married to Artie Shaw, similar to being married Mickey Rooney, should probably not count.

― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, June 30, 2019 8:46 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

i was coming here with this one (just watched here comes mr. jordan the other night). to be fair, she was married to artie shaw for almost 30 years, his longest marriage by a significant amount

also charles vidor is a different person than king vidor (something i did not realize initially)

King Charles... Vidor

Denholm Elliott and Virginia McKenna.

Not quite old timey and never married but... Patti Lupone and Kevin Kline.

Even less old times and definitely married: Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates

*timey

Technically doesn’t quite work but: Walter Matthau’s wife Carol, who was supposedly the inspiration for Holly Golightly as well as Glenn Close’s portrayal of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, had previously been married to William Saroyan.

She's in Mikey and Nicky. Her memoir, Among the Porcupines, is a great read and talks about the making of the film.

i learned last week that james mason was belinda carlisle's father-in-law

Feel like I just read or heard something about him coaching another, younger actor or actress, telling them to close their eyes right before the camera started rolling, both as a way to concentrate and to dilate the pupils

Two actors: Betty Garrett and Larry Parks

Beata Tyszkiewicz and Andrzej Wajda