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

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

RIP Orson Bean, even if you were never actually married to Joyce Dewitt and I wasn’t familiar with your other wives, on Tattletales or otherwise.

Tangential, but:

Love knowing that Charles Portis and Nora Ephron were an item. pic.twitter.com/g2lXuCxj4u

— Megan Abbott (@meganeabbott) February 20, 2020

learning about the marriages of Don Knotts pic.twitter.com/pJT9biLKsb

— paige (@BonerWizard) April 14, 2020

Zubin Mehta and Nancy Kovack (just watching a, er, memorable performance of hers in Star Trek) - married 51 years!

https://robinsonarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/Mehta0912.jpg

... also the guy playing her husband in this Star Trek episode was married to Twiggy.

not old timey and not all actors, but lockdown has clued me in to a lot of celeb couples i hadn't realised before.

David Tennant and Georgia (daughter of Peter Davidson, met on set of Doctor Who)

Caitlin Moran and Pete Paphides (this one from her (2010!) book)

Guy Garvey and Rachael Stirling (the wife from Detectorists. They are currently in lockdown with her mother - Diana Rig)

Wow @ Guy Garvey

Did you learn the latter bcz of Jools last Friday? Because I did. xp

It's a long way from Bury to kipping at Emma Peel's.

yeah, he was on Later on friday. i have a lot of time for GG but don't listen to his music or his radio shows. maybe i should. Jarvis is the same.

(Not for this thread, but keep seeing performances by quarantined musical duos who may have been keeping their careers separate up until now)

Zubin Mehta and Nancy Kovack (just watching a, er, memorable performance of hers in Star Trek) - married 51 years!

Two actors: Betty Garrett and Larry Parks

Beata Tyszkiewicz and Andrzej Wajda