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?
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

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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

Before she wed fellow screenwriter Ben Barzman, Norma Barzman had been married for a year to Claude Shannon, the father of information theory.

Favorite Norma Barzman story thus far is a not-yet-famous Marilyn Monroe tipping her off that the Feds were looking for her on the way up the mountain to Judy Garland's cocktail party which exchange of course included the line "my name is Norma too!"

The second wife of Alan Napier, who played Alfred on television's Batman, was Aileen Dickens Hawksley, a great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. This made Napier the step-grandfather of child actor Brian Forster, who played Chris Partridge on The Partridge Family. In addition to this, Hawksley's daughter/Forster's mother Jennifer Raine was the third wife of Time Tunnel/Time Machine/Star Trek TOS actor Whit Bissell.

The Searchers/Star Trek TOS pilot actor Jeffrey Hunter was the first husband of actress Barbara Rush. Rush was later married, twice, to hugely influential film publicist Warren Cowan. Through his final marriage, to Barbara Gilbert-Cowan, Warren Cowan was the stepfather of actors Melissa, Sara and Jonathan Gilbert.

And that's all for today

Hmm. Maybe one more thing. Barbara Gilbert-Cowan was born Barbara Crane. Her father, Harry Crane, was a comedy writer who, among other things, helped create The Honeymooners and made The Dean Martin Show in part by introducing the celebrity roast to television.

Music business not the movie business but Roy Wood was quite ladies man in the 70s - despite looking like he'd spent the night sleeping in a cardboard box. Girlfriends:

Ayshea - singer, actress, TV presenter, who was very, er, popular with teenage males in the early 70s.

Lynsey de Paul - singer, songwriter (see next post).

Annie Haslam - singer with Renaissance.

More on Lynsey de Paul.

She was romantically involved with Dudley Moore, Chas Chandler, Roy Wood, Ringo Starr, James Coburn, Bill Kenwright, Dodi Fayed, George Best, Bernie Taupin and David Frost

^ Lot of drinkers in that crowd, or at least people who gave the impression of being drinkers

David Lynch was married for about a decade to Mary Fisk, making him the brother-in-law of Jack Fisk and Sissy Spacek.

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

Richard Foreman and Amy Taubin

And from the music biz:
Robin Lane and Andy Summers

Neither’s wikipedia mentions that - was it that acrimonious that they prefer it buried?

Maybe. I saw it in some interviews which made it seem to be true

There's an interview where she mentions it, at least, nothing from him.

While I was looking I thought I remembered that she and Leroy had been in a relationship for a while but couldn't really verify.

https://jimsravesnrants.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/robin-lanes-life-goes-from-wrong-to-right/
Her Wikipedia page *does* mention it but says "citation needed."