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

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Dave Vanian and Patricia Morrisson!

kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link

Bricolage
Decoupage

incel elgort (cryptosicko), Thursday, 26 April 2018 01:13 (six years ago) link

Ha! Meant to post ^^ in the “I always get those two mixed up” thread.

incel elgort (cryptosicko), Thursday, 26 April 2018 03:17 (six years ago) link

Lol

We’ll Take Chanhassen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 April 2018 03:18 (six years ago) link

Not that obscure, but Rip Torn and Geraldine Page

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 26 April 2018 03:39 (six years ago) link

seven months pass...

Albert Finney & Anouk Aimee

The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 9 December 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link

Talk about punching above your weight.

Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Sunday, 9 December 2018 16:36 (five years ago) link

ikr, finney is such a fox

Wow

I just recalled walking by the Bobby Van Steakhouse the other day.

BTW Steakhouse guy is RONG DUDE, not the gentleman of this thread.

What Do I Blecch? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 December 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link

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.

Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link

Yup!

Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 20 December 2018 04:24 (five years ago) link

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.

Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 20 December 2018 04:27 (five years ago) link

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.

Josefa, Thursday, 20 December 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Margaret Whiting and Jack Wrangler

She was 22 years older and outlived him by 2 years.

Hideous Lump, Monday, 14 January 2019 03:45 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

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

Dan Worsley, Saturday, 16 February 2019 08:24 (five years ago) link

Did some research after screening BlacKKKlansman:

Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture and Miriam Makeba

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 22:29 (five years ago) link

Stanley Donen and Elaine May were together for the past 20 years.

Also, Stanley Donen and Yvette Mimieux from 1972 to 1985.

Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 03:58 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

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.

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 29 March 2019 05:59 (five years ago) link

Mark Harmon and Pam Dawber have been married for over 30 years.

Hideous Lump, Friday, 29 March 2019 10:17 (five years ago) link

three weeks pass...

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

Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Friday, 19 April 2019 10:57 (five years ago) link

William Wyler and Margaret Sullavan.

recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 April 2019 12:00 (five years ago) link

Lock thread!

Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 April 2019 12:38 (five years ago) link

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.

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 19 April 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link

Think his brother’s wife is famous too, but can’t remember who right this second.

Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 April 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link

Oh yeah, Anna Waronker.

Can’t remember if they all hang out with Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill or not.

Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 April 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link

Also: Susana Hoffs & Jay Roach.

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 19 April 2019 16:30 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

*bump* for recent Ronee Blakley Rolling Thunder activity

TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 June 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link

Not old time and not married, but was surprised a little to see that Karina Longworth & Rian Johnson are in a LTR.

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 June 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Not sure if it totally qualifies, but Martha Vickers and Mickey Rooney.

Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 July 2019 01:43 (five years ago) link

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.

Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 July 2019 01:46 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

Cherie Currie & Robert Hays
Inara George & Jake Kasdan

frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 8 August 2019 23:33 (five years ago) link

Janice Rule and Ben Gazzara

Josefa, Friday, 9 August 2019 01:58 (five years ago) link

Cherie Currie & Robert Hays

0_o

Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Friday, 9 August 2019 06:37 (five years ago) link

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.

Hideous Lump, Saturday, 10 August 2019 03:26 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Only one them an actor but, Pinchas Zukerman and Tuesday Weld.

Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 19:54 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

Another one that doesn’t quite work but still:
William Campbell and Judith Campbell Exner

Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 10 October 2019 01:22 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

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.

The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 December 2019 08:49 (four years ago) link

Another one that doesn’t quite work but still:
Sidney Lumet and Gloria Vanderbilt

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link

Michael J. Pollard & Beth Howland (Vera from "Alice")

Beth Howland & Charles Kimbrough (Jim Dial from "Murphy Brown")

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 January 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link

three weeks pass...

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

Josefa, Monday, 27 January 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link

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.

TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 February 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link

Tangential, but:

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

— Megan Abbott (@meganeabbott) February 20, 2020

Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 20 February 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

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

— paige (@BonerWizard) April 14, 2020

mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 April 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

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

Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 09:25 (four years ago) link

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

Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 09:27 (four years ago) link

two weeks pass...

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)

koogs, Sunday, 21 June 2020 11:31 (four years ago) link

Wow @ Guy Garvey

Future England Captain (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 June 2020 11:36 (four years ago) link

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.

Josefa, Thursday, 19 September 2024 15:47 (one month ago) link

Jack Hawkins & Jessica Tandy

Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 29 September 2024 03:05 (one month ago) link

two weeks pass...

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.

Litso Mystic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 October 2024 12:48 (four weeks ago) link

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

Litso Mystic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 October 2024 12:49 (four weeks ago) link

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.

Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 October 2024 04:30 (four weeks ago) link

James Stacy then married and divorced Kim Darby.

Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 October 2024 04:35 (four weeks ago) link

three weeks pass...

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!

biting your uncles (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 November 2024 17:17 (one week ago) link


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