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

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.

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^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
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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?
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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

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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

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!

Not that famous and no director, but actress Sally Ann Howes and composer Richard Adler.

Gary Lockwood, one of the two astronauts from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Stefanie Powers.

Gary Lockwood also memorably played opposite Sally Kellerman on the second *Star Trek TOS* pilot, third episode aired,
"Where No Man Has Gone Before."

I read an interview with him once that suggested he was quite the p****hound in his day. He’s still with us at 87, as is Stefanie Powers at 82. Just watched a 1985 miniseries called Deceptions in which Stefanie plays two twin sisters who switch identities (one is called Stephanie). Ludicrous story but excellent work.

Good to know she's still around, having some fun, I hope. TV Guide used to run all this stuff about her and Holden having adventures in the wild, and was thinking he was also involved with a screenwriter or producer? No, though wiki sez that Stanwyck was something of a mentor early on, coaching him when they co-starred in Golden Boy--- and apparently long-time friends-only? Anyway, also from Wiki:

Holden had a daughter born in 1937 from his relationship with actress Eva May Hoffman.[43]

Holden was married to actress Brenda Marshall from 1941 until their divorce in 1971.[4] They had two sons, Peter and Scott.[44][45]

Holden met French actress Capucine in the early 1960s. The two starred in the films The Lion (1962) and The 7th Dawn (1964). They reportedly began a two-year affair, which is alleged to have ended due to Holden's alcoholism.[46] Capucine and Holden remained friends until his death in 1981.

In 1972, Holden began a nine-year relationship with actress Stefanie Powers and sparked her interest in animal welfare.[47] After his death, Powers set up the William Holden Wildlife Foundation at Holden's Mount Kenya Game Ranch.[48]

...His death was noted by singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, whose 1987 song "Tom's Diner", about a sequence of events one morning in 1981, included a mention of reading a newspaper article about "an actor who had died while he was drinking". Vega subsequently confirmed that this was a reference to Holden.[53]

xxxxpost Libby Titus also wrote "Love Has No Pride" w Eric Justin Kaz, making her mark in music history, in history.

!!! Didn’t know that about “Tom’s Diner”

Stefanie Powers still lives part-time in Kenya today.

Also, oddly enough, I just watched a 1986 miniseries featuring Capucine… Sins, starring Joan Collins. Kind of a mix of “Scruples” and “Lace.”

Holden always or consistently enough had a macho poster child quality, like in Golden Boy he was the violin prodigy of humble origins, coaxed into boxing, and offscreen xpost coached by Stanwyck, whom he reportedly always looked up to.
Sunset Boulevard places him as homeless writer taken in by the Hollywood Gothic star crone (not meant as a put-down, thinking ov crone power in olde tales), in Picnic he shows up at the fest all sporty trying a bit too hard (younger characters: "Who is this geezer ahole?")
Had the impression from xpost TV Guide coverage of safaris etc. that Powers went from being good sport to necessarily managing things, maybe like Mary Hemingway w increasingly damaged Ernest, not that Holden ever seemed as assholy as Hem could, but in both cases, vulnerability went with the talent, was part of the territory).
So yeah, ""an actor who had died while he was drinking,"" to the tune of "Tom's Diner" and voice of Vega, fits right in.

It's not old-timey, but I was skimming an article about the Lonely Planet's new sketch (with Charli XCX) and Andy Samberg credited some of the impetus to his wife of ten years... Joanna Newsom!

zp speaking of Sunset Boulvevard, here's Erich Von Stroheim, highly acclaimed Silent Age director whose high;y expensive screen gems got him relegated to acting-only, but he was acclaimed for that as well, fairly often along with

Denise Vernac (née Denise Yvonne Eveillard;[2] 3 June 1916 – 31 October 1984), was a French film actress. She appeared in seventeen films, between 1939 and 1966.[1]

Additionally, Vernac was the secretary and romantic companion of Erich von Stroheim, an Austrian-American actor, film director and producer, and screenwriter.[3][4][5]

Some of their films:

The Mask of Diijon is a 1946 American black-and-white horror noir suspense film...
Diijon, a tired magician, gives up his act to study the power of the mind. His wife Victoria, once supportive, now is struggling to pay bills. She urges her stubborn and older husband to return to the magic field where Diijon was considered one of the greats. He refuses but does reluctantly agree to do a hypnotism nightclub act at Victoria's urging. The act goes bad and he's laughed off the stage. He's convinced this is the handiwork of Victoria's ex-lover Tony Holliday. Later, Diijon finds that he does indeed have the power to control men's minds and begins to take revenge on the people he felt made him look like a fool. He hypnotizes his young wife to kill the man. Unfortunately for Diijon, things go horribly wrong.

The opening of the film features a memorable scene depicting a woman being beheaded, with a guillotine—then revealed to be a magic trick.

That's Not the Way to Die (French: On ne meurt pas comme ça!) is a 1946 French mystery crime film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Erich von Stroheim, Anne-Marie Blanc and Denise Vernac.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Aimé Bazin. It borrows its main plot device from the 1932 American film The Death Kiss.[1] von Stroheim was not happy with the film, but felt it received good reviews and was popular with audiences.[1]
Synopsis
At a film studios while shooting a scene in which a man is killed, director Eric von Berg angrily calls cuts and rebukes the actor and shouts "That's Not the Way to Die". However, the actor soon turns out to be really dead, murdered by somebody present.

The Dance of Death (French: La danse de mort, Italian: La prigioniera dell'isola), is a 1948 French-Italian drama film directed by Marcel Cravenne and starring Erich von Stroheim, Denise Vernac and Palau.[1] It is based on August Strindberg's The Dance of Death...
An egocentric artillery Captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress off the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice, a former actress who sacrificed her career for secluded military life with Edgar, reveals on the occasion of their 25th wedding anniversary, the veritable hell their marriage has been. Edgar, an aging schizophrenic who refuses to acknowledge his severe illness, struggles to sustain his ferocity and arrogance with an animal disregard for other people. Sensing that Alice, together with her cousin and would-be lover, Kurt, may ally against him, retaliates with vicious force. Alice lures Kurt into the illusion of sharing a passionate assignation and recruits him in a plot to destroy Edgar.

The Red Signal is a 1949 French drama film directed by Ernst Neubach and starring Erich von Stroheim, Denise Vernac and Frank Villard.[1]...In a small Austrian town, physician Mathias Berthold is haunted by the memory of his wife who died in a train accident. Under psychological strain he hears his wife's voice commanding him to "stop the train". In a trance-like state he attempts to sabotage the railway tracks...

A new one:

Billy Crudup & Naomi Watts

Suzanne Pleshette and Troy Donahue! For about nine months in the early sixties.

Third hus was:

In 2001, Pleshette married fellow actor Tom Poston, who had been a recurring guest star on The Bob Newhart Show in the 1970s and a Newhart cast member. Long before they worked together on television, though, Poston and Pleshette had been involved romantically in 1959, when they acted together in the Broadway comedy Golden Fleecing.[8][15] During the subsequent 40 years, they married others, but remained friends. After they were both widowed, the deaths of their spouses brought Poston and Pleshette together again, and they married in 2001. They remained married until his death from respiratory failure in Los Angeles on April 30, 2007

...Pleshette’s last public appearance was with the Bob Newhart Show cast at The Bob Newhart Show 35th Anniversary Reunion at PaleyLive LA, held on September 5, 2007 at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills.[44][45][46][47] She died January 19, 2008.[48][49][50]

Gallagher, Pleshette, and Poston are all interred[51][52] close to each other in the Jewish Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery.[53]

to whom she was married from March 16, 1968, to his death on January 21, 2000.

Oh yeah, and after Troy (after the goldie rush?)*

She dated actors Dean Stockwell and David Janssen.[36][37]

Joesefa's mention of Pete Kelly's Blues , starring actor-director-producer Jack Webb as a a bandleader/crime magnet, over on ILM's Peggy Lee Is The Bomb (because Peggy's singin' in it), reminds me:

Webb's personal life was better defined by his love of jazz than his interest in police work. He had a collection of more than 6,000 jazz recordings.[3] Webb's own recordings reached cult status, including his deadpan delivery of "Try A Little Tenderness".[30] His lifelong interest in the cornet allowed him to move easily in the jazz culture, where he met singer and actress Julie London.

She was the subject of a 1957 Life cover article in which she was quoted as saying "It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate."[25]