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

*correction: Michelle Triola lived w/DickVan Dyke for 33 years

Candy Clark and Marjoe Gortner (briefly in '70s)

Close call:

Liza Minnelli was engaged to Peter Sellers for a hot minute in 1973. So sad to imagine what could have been.

Complicating this dream match were the facts that both were technically married to other people at the time and Liza was also engaged to Desi Arnaz Jr.

Doesn’t work here, but family tree of Susan Kohner deserves a further look.

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.

Jan Smithers & James Brolin

Wow, good one.

Brolin went from Bailey to Babs!

This is one I just heard about a few days ago from a local NPR feature on KY actors.

Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl (writer of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory)

https://imgc.artprintimages.com/img/print/patricia-neal-with-roald-dahl-1954_u-l-q1byabs0.jpg?h=900&p=0&w=900

Fans of History Channel might know from an episode on Dahl that he was a bit of a player in more ways than one for British Intelligence.

I should say Drunk History not History Channel...LOL.

Katharine Ross and cinematographer Conrad Hall, they met when filming 'Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid'. Ross is now married to Sam Elliott.

Only recently discovered that Bob Dylan and Mavis Staples were an item. Dylan asked to marry her, but she turned him down.

Apparently Elliott was also in 'Butch Cassidy...' .

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.

Watching Gunsmoke alerted me to another actress on the Star Trek/Mannix circuit, Julie Parrish, previously mentioned here: Elvis Girls

The aforementioned Katherine Ross and Sam Elliott are in the show that is on now after Gunsmoke, The Sacketts, although this is from before they were married.

I knew about Julie London and Bobby Troup of course, but a little while ago I learned and forgot that she was previously married to Jack Webb.

Probably everyone else knew this and at least one participant is not so old-timey, but Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen.

I just learned about that one the other day. Hard to imagine going from being married to the guy from Clockwork Orange to being married to the guy from Cheers.

André Morell & Joan Greenwood

Peter Vaughan & Billie Whitelaw

Sidney Lumet & Gloria Vanderbilt (who was also married to Leopold Stokowski!)
Don Siegel & Viveca Lindfors

Good ones. Apparently Siegel & Lindfors met when making Night Unto Night(1949), Siegel's 2nd film and Lindfors' first after moving to America (though not the first released). Wikipedia describes the film as a "major box-office flop."

The late Dean Stockwell and Millie Perkins, the interesting actress who was featured in Monte Hellman's The Shooting (1966) and the psych-horror film The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976) and was Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

These last few are amazing, thanks

sorry, unrelated, but re: millie perkins:

"Recent to her retirement, she was honored in the 2004 action-adventure video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, in which one of the storyline girlfriends to protagonist Carl "CJ" Johnson, voiced by Orfeh, was named after her. "

No worries, not too many threads about Millie Perkins so this thread will do fine.

Building off the Dino, Desi & Billy talk in the obits thread:

Dino Martin was married to both Olivia Hussey AND Dorothy Hamill!

!

Man there is more going on around that but I haven’t come across an actual marriage so I will keep mum for now.

Should I have known that Tuesday Weld was married to Dudley Moore in the late '70s? It would seem so

An actress about the same age as James MacArthur told me about some trouble that made the news in re his adoptive mother, Helen Hayes, blanking on details, but think it was follow-up to this:
When stage great Helen Hayes died in 1993, her son, James MacArthur, inherited her Victorian mansion overlooking the Hudson River in Nyack, N.Y. MacArthur arranged to sell the house for $730,000 to Christopher and Georgine Chalsen, who planned to live there with their five children.Jan 7, 1996

Steering Clear Of Title Trouble - Bloomberg Rest of it is paywalled, but that's the gist.

Wiki bio has him working his ass off for years and years and years, in tons of shows, flicks, sometimes other:
he BBC Radio 5 Live obituary program Brief Lives, in which he paid tribute to his Hawaii Five-O castmate, the late Kam Fong. In 1997, MacArthur returned without Jack Lord (who was in declining health) to reprise his character, who had become Hawaii's governor, in the 1997 unaired pilot of Hawaii Five-O which starred actor Gary Busey.

In April 2003, he traveled to Honolulu's historic Hawaii Theatre for a cameo role in Joe Moore's play Dirty Laundry. Negotiations were underway in summer 2010 for MacArthur to make a cameo appearance in the new CBS primetime remake of Hawaii Five-O at the time of his death, a role that eventually was given to Al Harrington. On the November 1, 2010, episode, MacArthur's death was mentioned in a short tribute that played before the start of that episode.

In 2001, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to him.[19]
Personal life and death
MacArthur's first wife was Joyce Bulifant. On the set of The Angry Breed (1968), MacArthur met actress Melody Patterson, who became his second wife. They wed on Kauai in July 1970 and divorced five years later. His third wife was former LPGA golfer Helen Beth Duntz. MacArthur had four children: Charles P. MacArthur, Mary McClure, Juliette Rappaport, and James D. MacArthur.[20]

MacArthur died on October 28, 2010, at the age of 72, of natural causes, at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida What does that mean? I hate natural causes, and 72 is the new 40, by cracky.

Somebody please find reboot pilot w Busey.

Oh, after "sometimes other," I meant to include:
Throughout his career, MacArthur had also found time for various other ventures. From 1959 to 1960, he partnered with actors James Franciscus and Alan Ladd, Jr. in a Beverly Hills telephone answering service. In June 1972, he directed the Honolulu Community Theatre in a production of his father's play The Front Page. James F. and Ladd Jr. were, uh, kinda skeevy I heard, can't verify but he was prob wise not to continue partnership.

Franciscus mainly, but don't know---just watch out for him!

Like Elvis with Priscilla, James MacArthur met Melody Patterson when she was a teenager and waited till she turned 21 to marry her

Very good.
March 28, 1960, Franciscus married Kathleen "Kitty" Wellman, the daughter of film director William A. Wellman....after the couple's divorce he married Carla Ankney in 1980.

They were still married at the time of Franciscus's 1991 death from emphysema in North Hollywood, California, at 57. Also quite a career:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Franciscus
Gotta say he was my childhood hero for a while, as intense teacher Mr. Novak!
He starred in I Passed for White (1960), and in 1963 he appeared as Mike Norris in the episode "Hang By One Hand" on the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour. He also guest-starred on Combat!, The F.B.I. and Miracle of the White Stallions. Franciscus may be best remembered for his title roles in NBC's Mr. Novak (1963–65) and ABC's Longstreet (1971–72) which included his blind character taking martial arts lessons in Jeet Kune Do from the late Bruce Lee as Li Tsung in four episodes,[2] and for his vocal performance in the big-screen version of Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)

Of course the marital that used to trip people out back in their professional heyday: Anne Bancroft & Mel Brooks.

Tyne Daly was married to actor-director Georg Stanford Brown from 1966 to 1990.
He was in Roots and a bunch of other stuff, but mainly put this in here because she's awesome. Goddam Tyne, lots of Emmys, also Tony, also she got Dolly Parton to duet w her on Dolly's show, and producer so impress he put her in new production of Gypsy, she did the hell out of that, then to Chekhov's The Seagull, of course.
Remembered her father, James, as cool on lots of ancient shows, so looked up him and his marriage (to Hope Newell, 1942-65), found this:
According to his son Tim Daly during an interview on CBS News Sunday Morning, James Daly came out to Tim as gay a decade after divorcing his wife Hope. His struggle to come to terms with his sexual orientation nearly put a rift between him and his family. As homosexuality was still considered a mental illness until the early 1970s, he and his wife tried and failed at "curing" him. After their divorce, Daly decided to limit his contact with his children out of fear that they would end up mentally ill themselves.[5]

Two of Daly's children, Tyne Daly and Tim Daly ](of Wings, on which Tyne appeared), and his granddaughter, Kathryne Dora Brown, and grandson, Sam Daly, are actors. Tyne appeared on Daly's TV series, Foreign Intrigue, as a child. She also played Jennifer Lochner, Paul Lochner's adult daughter, on Medical Center in the 1970 season 1 episode Moment of Decision. The elder Daly and his daughter both guest-starred separately in the original Mission: Impossible TV series. Tim appeared as a child with his father in Henrik Ibsen's play, An Enemy of the People. Daly had two other children: daughters Mary Glynn and Pegeen Michael.[6]

Death
Daly died on July 3, 1978, of heart failure in Nyack, New York,[6] two years after Medical Center ended, and while he was preparing to star in the play Equus in Tarrytown, New York.[7] His ashes were sprinkled into the Atlantic Ocean. 59.
Sorry to be Debbie Downer with the copypasta here, carry on.

Pretty sure I remember MacArthur and Bulifant being on Tattle Tales, the celeb couple game show that Bert Convy hosted.

Eh, IMDB says no.

Tattle Tales has a looming presence over this thread.

XP They were divorced way before Tattle Tales, although she probably appeared with one of her other husbands.

It was Edward Mallory she was onTattletales with.You just knew seeing them together it wasn’t gonna last

Dang.
Jo Ann Pflug's name popped into my head again this morning. Though best known to me this way: Pflug's first major role was as U.S. Army nurse Lt. Maria "Dish" Schneider in the 1970 film M*A*S*H, she was also a frequent panelist on the television game show Match Game from 1973 until 1981,[7] a co-host with Allen Funt on the 1970s version of Candid Camera, and...Pflug married Chuck Woolery in 1972 at the Knowles Memorial Chapel at Rollins College in Orlando, Florida.[8] They had a daughter, Melissa. The couple divorced in 1980.[4][9]

She married Charles Young in 1988.[citation needed]
In 1997, she was in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil---is it good?

Just came back to this website I hit every once in a blue moon, usually for music.

https://www.museumofthegulfcoast.org/notable-people-hall-of-fame

This time clicked on Notables and found two actresses who qualify, although one has already been mentioned and the other isn't really old-timey.

Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton, parents of Martha. There are posts in the archive from Morbius and Shakey about this.

David Carradine and Barbara Hershey. Never married, although they worked together a fair bit, including on Kung Fu and in Boxcar Bertha, and had a child who was, um, born Free but later changed names to Tom.

K. Carradine originally wrote "I'm Easy" from Nashville as part of his wooing Plimpton when they were both appearing in a production of Hair.

Yes, that’s what Morbius said. I guess those two were not actually married. Keith’s first wife was Sandra Will (never heard of her) and there ddd some scandal around their divorce case involving a PI.

I don't think I knew anything about Tyne Daly's father, James Daly, especially didn't know that he was on the Star Trek:TOS episode "Requiem for Methuselah" or Rod Serling's favorite Twilight Zone episode (and mine), "A Stop at WIlloughby."

Although maybe he liked something on the second season better.