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

A lot of the '70s Match Game regulars had surprising spouses at one time or another:

Brett Somers => Jack Klugman
Joyce Bulifant => James McArthur ("Dano" of Hawaii Five-O)
Richard Dawson => Diana Dors

Oh yeah, Dawson & Dors is a great one.

I've known for a long time but initially was surprised that Burt Reynolds was married to Judy Carne of Laugh-In

These are all great, thanks!

Knew Klugman/Somers, had forgotten Reynolds/Carne, rest all new to me. Had being trying hard to remember Joyce Bulifant at all, but kept getting interference from Joyce Van Patten. Who, it turns out, was married to Martin Balsam for five years. As a bonus for this thread, this union produced a daughter, Talia Balsam, who was married to George Clooney for four years.

...and who is currently married to John Slattery, whom also played her ex-husband on Mad Men.

More Match Game:
Mary Ann Mobley => Gary Collins

God is she annoying on Match Game or any other game show

Haven't watch one with her in ages. Does she make goo-goo eyes at Gene or something?

It's the combination of her dumb, ill-considered answers with the fact that she's clearly so full of herself. Dim and haughty and yeah, goo-goo eyes at everybody.

Caught her on Tattletales the other day and she bitched about not hearing a question because her rooting section was too noisy. Missing the question allowed another celeb to win the game, and at the end of the show she announced that she was going to "file a protest." So a sore loser as well

B-b-but... oh wait

Lol at description of Mobley/Collins as the "Brangelina of the '70s"

Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan.

Don't think I knew that either. Believe they were neighbors later when she was married to Leland Hayward.

RIP Tattletales regular Dick Gautier.

Not both actors - you could argue neither were - but the one that always surprises me is George Lazenby and Pam Shriver.

Nicky Henson and Una Stubbs

http://img5.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/8/c/8c4gfbdxfrfrfrd.jpg?djet1p5k

Jack Klugman and Brett Somers had that thing some couples have where they kinda look like they could be brother and sister.

Indeed.

Tbh, trying to remember who Dick Gautier's actress wife was at the time of Tattletales and what I would have seen her on.

Barbara Stuart. You probably knew her from her role as "Bunny" in Gomer Pyle: USMC

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

Because Beth Howland. And Valerie Harper + Richard Schaal, which I didn't know about until after posting.

I don't know how old-time this is, but Alan Pakula and Hope Lange.

http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a0/c4/3e/a0c43ef2906994d6fa594413a620fb8c.jpg

^a perfect addition

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.

RIP Donald Sutherland, reminding me, also via havimg recently read Don't Look Now, that DS co-starred w Julie Christie in the film. dir. Nic Roeg, who was married to Thersea Russell, maybe best known for his movies, though she did a lot more, starting with a good performance in The Last Tycoon(1976); also took on some adventurous projects aside from Roeg's , incl.

In 1978, Russell starred opposite Dustin Hoffman in the critically-acclaimed crime drama Straight Time...a lead role as a serial killer in Bob Rafelson's neo-noir film Black Widow (1987), which garnered her significant commercial attention.... Other roles from this time included the crime dramas Physical Evidence (1989) and Impulse (1990).
In 1991, Russell starred as a prostitute in Ken Russell's satirical drama Whore, followed by Steven Soderbergh's In 1991, Russell starred as a prostitute in Ken Russell's satirical drama Whore, followed by Steven Soderbergh's experimental black-and-white feature, Kafka, co-starring Jeremy Irons. After appearing in a number of independent films in the mid-1990s, Russell had a supporting role in the commercially successful neo-noir Wild Things (1998), and the critically-acclaimed drama The Believer (2001).

The song "Athena" by the rock group The Who, was written about a chance meeting with Pete Townshend, who was smitten and rejected by her. The single appears on the band's 1982 album, It's Hard.

Effective in Straight Time but a terrible actress imo

Hazel Court (10 February 1926 – 15 April 2008) was an English actress. She is known for her roles in British and American horror films during the 1950s and early 1960s, including Terence Fisher's The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) for Hammer Film Productions, and three of Roger Corman's adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories for American International Pictures: The Premature Burial (1962), The Raven (1963) and The Masque of the Red Death (1964).

In 1964, Court married actor and director Don Taylor, whom she met while they were shooting an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

He co-starred in 1940s and 1950s classics, including the 1948 film noir The Naked City, Battleground, Father of the Bride, Father's Little Dividend and Stalag 17. He later turned to directing films such as Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Tom Sawyer (1973), Echoes of a Summer (1976), and Damien - Omen II (1978)

RIP Yvonne Furneaux, 98:

She made her film debut with a minor role in Anthony Pelissier's omnibus comedy Meet Me Tonight (1952). She subsequently played several supporting parts, including in Peter Brook's 1953 film version of The Beggar's Opera, the adventure films The Master of Ballantrae and The Dark Avenger, and the mystery film The House of the Arrow. She played the female lead in the Hammer horror film The Mummy.

In 1955, she starred in Michelangelo Antonioni's Le Amiche, which won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and launched a successful parallel career in Italian cinema. She played Emma, the fiancée to Marcello Mastroianni's character, in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita. She played leading roles in several peplum films, and she returned to her native France to star in a pair of films for director Claude Autant-Lara (The Count of Monte Cristo and Enough Rope).

In 1965, she played the sister of Catherine Deneuve's character in Roman Polanski's psychological thriller Repulsion.

Jacques Natteau (15 November 1920 – 17 April 2007) was a French director of photography.

...He later remembered that, on 4 February 1934, he literally ran for his life as violent riots broke out in Paris prior to the collapse of the French government.
Growing up in Paris's artistic 6ème arrondissement in the 1930s, Natteau came to know some of its most successful residents including Jean Cocteau, Jacques Prévert, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Pablo Picasso.

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...n 1938, the legendary French film director, Jean Renoir, gave him his first job as assistant camera man for the film La Bête humaine. But his career was interrupted by the onset of World War II.

...Upon France's collapse in 1940, Jacques Natteau linked up with the Royal Air Force and fought in the Battle of Britain. His exploits earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross and the French Legion of Honor.

After the war, he resumed his career in the late 1940s and went on to become one of Europe's most famous cinematographers in the 1950s and 1960s. Natteau was the favoured cinematographer for Claude Autant-Lara.[1]

He served as cinematographer for such French directors including Jean Renoir, Claude Autant-Lara, Marc Allégret, Marcel Carné and Jules Dassin. Among the films to his credit as cinematographer are He Who Must Die, Never on Sunday, Phaedra, and Le Comte de Monte Cristo. Claude Autant-Lara.

In 1961, while working on Le Comte de Monte Cristo, he met actress Yvonne Furneaux...[2] They lived between London, Paris, and Rome in the 1960s as they continued to pursue their film careers. They were married from 1962 until his death.[3]Jacques Natteau died of pneumonia while traveling in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 17 April 2007.

from Hollywood Reporter's YF obit:

She also was the female lead in the Hammer horror film The Mummy (1959), starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Though she considered the project less than ideal, she said she ultimately learned from those actors that “if you don’t take a film like The Mummy seriously and put your heart and soul into it, then you can bring it down,” she explained in Mark A. Miller’s 2010 book, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and Horror Cinema.

Hold the phone!

...successful parallel career in Italian cinema. She played Emma, the fiancée to Marcello Mastroianni's character, in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita. She played leading roles in several peplum films

Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (pl.: pepla), is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or biblical epics mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budget Hollywood historical epics of the time...

...These films dominated the Italian film industry from 1958 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by spaghetti Western and Eurospy films.[2][3]

The terms "peplum" and "sword-and-sandal" were used in a condescending way by film critics. Later, the terms were embraced by fans of the films, similar to the terms "spaghetti Western" or "shoot-'em-ups". In their English versions, peplum films can be immediately differentiated from their Hollywood counterparts by their use of "clumsy and inadequate" English language dubbing.[4] A 100-minute documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre was produced and directed by Antonio Avati in 1977 titled Kolossal: i magnifici Maciste (aka Kino Kolossal).[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

tbh they shd start making films starring just a REALLY LARGE ACTUAL GUY again, it's time

Amen! And "pepla" is a long female-associated garment---considering thee bodybuilder centrism, seems like this kind of flick should be called:

Perizoma (from Greek περίζωμα, from peri "around, about" and zoma "loin-cloth, drawers, band, belt") is a type of loincloth that originated with the Minoan civilization in Crete.

TIL that actress Silvana Mangano, wife of Dino De Laurentiis, had a Top 10 Pop hit in the US in 1953 with "Anna," a movie theme she didn't actually sing (a song which btw was not originally titled "Anna" either).

Checking this page, I guess nobody was surprised by Vittorio Gassman & Shelley Winters. Gassman's prior wife was Nora Ricci, who appeared in a number of classic Italian films of the '50s-'70s.

I saw a facebook post that said Fred Armisen has been married to Riki Lindholme (the other half of Garfunkel and Oates) for 2 years and when I wiki-ed him I saw that he had been married to Sally Timms (!) and Elizabeth Moss. And not married to Carrie Brownstein (I thought they were) and in a relationship with Natasha Lyonne. Fucker gets around!

TIL that actress Silvana Mangano, wife of Dino De Laurentiis, had a Top 10 Pop hit in the US in 1953 with "Anna," a movie theme she didn't actually sing (a song which btw was not originally titled "Anna" either).

Have never seen the original film, but the Wikipedia page is interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Negro_Zumb%C3%B3n

Didn’t know Lattuada directed it either

I remain fascinated by the film mentioned here, with her, Alberto Sordi, Bette Davis and Joseph Cotten: Post by Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs) from C/D: Bette Davis on ILX - C/D: Bette Davis

ANNA not available for streaming. But there is also Robert Rossen picture called MAMBO with her and Vittorio Gassman again … and Michael Rennie!

If that’s not enough for you, there’s also Shelley Winters.

There's a couple of rips on YouTube but none with English subs.

from that xpost Sword-and-Sandal wiki--caption of a still, in which she's playing a big stringed instrument, like an ancient tynes bajo sexto, looking attentively at satyr-type, who may be singing to her:

Kirk Douglas and Silvana Mangano in a pause during the shootings of Ulysses (1954) by Mario Camerini

OK, I didn't know Werner Herzog and Eva Mattes were in a relationship had a daughter in 1980.

Doesn’t quite work and no marriage but Nathalie Delon and Chris Blackwell.

According to Keith Richards' book, Nathalie also had a brief, passionate affair with Bobby Keys during the Exile sessions.

Trumpeter/bandleader Ray Anthony and Mamie Van Doren, in the 1950s.

Oh, and both are still alive at 102 and 93 respectively. #onethread

Quintessential 70s UK "dolly bird" Sally Geeson and William G. Stewart (of Fifteen to One fame).

Wrong biz, but Tony Visconti was married to Mary Hopkin and then to May Pang.

In that same biz: I knew Libby Titus was married to Levon Helm and Donald Fagen but not about her relationship with Dr. John during the interregnum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA5JahHqfYI
#onethread

Hmm, howzabout:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCtgC43I_-8

Not a big star but Dorothy Jordan,who played John Wayne’s sister-in-law in The Searchers, was the wife of Merian C. Cooper.

Also did not now about Cooper’s incredible career as an airman.

Aargh, know not now

I was just about to dial up this thread and the "still alive" thread, and here they both are together.

Just found out that director and I Dream of Jeannie producer Claudio Guzmán was once married to Anna Maria Alberghetti. And that she's still alive at 88.

Jack Hawkins & Jessica Tandy

After their Mexican divorce, Jack Cassidy’s first wife and mother of David, actress and dancer Evelyn Ward, later married Elliot Silverstein, director of Cat Ballou and A Man Called Horse.

And I somehow had no recollection that Shirley Jones was actually Shaun Cassidy’s mother.

TIL that Eddie Fisher's 3rd wife (after Debbie & Liz) was Connie Stevens. It has her 2nd and final marriage, her prior husband being James Stacy.

James Stacy then married and divorced Kim Darby.

I feel like I should have known that Judy Garland was married to David Rose, the composer of "The Stripper". Rose married her two months after divorcing Martha Raye - one of Martha Raye's SEVEN husbands!