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

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

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.

Tangential, but:

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

— Megan Abbott (@meganeabbott) February 20, 2020

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

— paige (@BonerWizard) April 14, 2020

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

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

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)

Wow @ Guy Garvey

Did you learn the latter bcz of Jools last Friday? Because I did. xp

It's a long way from Bury to kipping at Emma Peel's.

yeah, he was on Later on friday. i have a lot of time for GG but don't listen to his music or his radio shows. maybe i should. Jarvis is the same.

(Not for this thread, but keep seeing performances by quarantined musical duos who may have been keeping their careers separate up until now)

Zubin Mehta and Nancy Kovack (just watching a, er, memorable performance of hers in Star Trek) - married 51 years!

Check out this picture of her with Shatner.
https://superstarsbio.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Nancy-Kovack-heights.jpg

Not married, but Bibi Andersson and Miloš Forman.

Jennifer O'Neill and songwriter Jeff Barry. Married for one year in the late '70s.

Not quite a good threadfit, but I am kind of amazed that Bulle Ogier and Barber Schroeder are still married.

Schroedet's Barber

Jennifer O'Neill and songwriter Jeff Barry. Married for one year in the late '70s.

I noticed the other day that Jennifer O'Neill has had quite a busy time of it, maritally, but seems to have settled down at last:

Dean Rossiter (1965–1971, divorced, 1 child)
Joseph Koster (1972–1974, divorced)
Nick de Noia (1975–1976, divorced)
Jeff Barry (1978–1979, divorced)
John Lederer (1979–1983, divorced, 1 child)
Richard Alan Brown (1986–1989, divorced, 1 child)
Neil L. Bonin (1992–1993, annulled)
Richard Alan Brown (1993–1996, divorced)
Mervin Sidney Louque Jr. (1996–present)

Well done, Mervin!

Picturing her family wearily trooping into Macey's and along the well-worn path to the wedding gifts section, yet again.

Was mildly surprised to discover yesterday that Jimmy Cauty from the KLF is married to Alannah Currie out of the Thompson Twins.

Schroedet's Barber

obv :)

Don’t know if this qualifies but I recently learned Candice Bergen and Louis Malle were married, which seems a bit strange. Also learned Bergen’s father was a famous ventriloquist who left money to his dummy when he died but not his kids. Wild.

oh right, yeah, I remember someone in college commenting that they saw Candice Bergen around freshman year to see Justine Malle who lived down the hall from me in the dorms.

Doesn't work for this thread, but don't know where else to put it: TIL that the actress from Spock's Brain whose name was Marj Dusay and whose birthday would have been yesterday, played a memorable role on The Odd Couple and was in lots of other shows as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o7UDpn1mKI

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNDViZmI1NzItNzVhZi00ZGE1LTkwOGEtMDI1YjI2MWFmYmQxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyODIzMzQ0ODQ@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg

Trying to think of who else was on both The Odd Couple and Star Trek: TOS. So far I've got Elinor Donahue, Pamelyn Ferdin and John Fiedler.

Oh wait, that reminds me of one that is not on this thread. Michael Ansara, who played Kang on "The Day of the Dove," was married to Barbara Eden from 1958 to 1974. He also played King Kamehameha on an episode of I Dream of Jeannie.

Love Marj Dusay, she's also in a couple of original Hawaii Five-O episodes, a real standout in looks and screen presence. I've been rewatching the first 6 seasons of H5O and there's a huge contingent of actors who have appeared on that and Star Trek TOS, off the top of my head: Marj Dusay, Michael Ansara, Ricardo Montalban, Diana Muldaur, France Nuyen, Barbara Luna, Bill Shatner, Joanne Linville, Mark Lenard, William Windom, Sally Kellerman, Madlyn Rhue...

Wow, that’s amazing!

https://www.startrek.com/article/galaxy-of-trek-cheers-frasier-connections

A further irony is that Jack Lord was originally offered the Captain Kirk role before Shatner (but after Jeffrey Hunter). Lord asked for 50% of the profits of the show so they turned him down and found Shatner.

France Nuyen was married to Robert Culp for a few years!

OK wow I did not know that

All roads lead back to this thread.

Begging your indulgence, more Star Trek TOS/Hawaii Five-O overlap:

Nancy Kovack (whom you mentioned recently as *still* married to Zubin Mehta), Antoinette Bower, Pilar Seurat, Charlene Polite, Sabrina Scharf... I'm hardly even trying! Something must have been up behind the scenes with those two shows.

I think more than a handful of these also appeared on Hogan's Heroes if not Mannix, at least from what I just came across.

Joanne Linville was married to Mark Rydell for a decade!

Antoinette Bower
Heh, was just in a discussion about whether “Catspaw” was the worst episode of ST:TOS

Marj Dusay might have had something to say about that

Heh.

Perhaps she says something about it here: http://www.fiveohomepage.com/dusay/

Interesting interview. "The Singapore File" is a unique episode of H5O, very film noirish; they never did another episode quite like it. I have issues with it though, bc it has too much of an air of unreality. It feels like a dream episode, like maybe we're not supposed to take it seriously. "24 Karat Kill" is more within the normal tone of the show, and her character is much stronger in it.

Where are you watching these episodes of H50?

Stream and stream. What is stream?

On the official DVDs from CBS! Which I bought probably 12-15 years ago. They're a lot cheaper to buy now.

And just to bring this back to the actual topic of the thread, James MacArthur ("Danno" on Hawaii Five-O) was once married to Joyce Bulifant of Match Game fame. They divorced and he quickly got remarried to Melody Patterson from the show F Troop.

I posted some stuff over on another thread to keep this thread clean but now I feel a little guilty about it: Things you were shockingly old when you learned

But on the other hand I didn’t want to re-derail, especially after that bullseye post from Josefa.