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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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.

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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.

Heh, Pinterest is totally onto me. Don’t ask me why I even have a Pinterest account, can’t remember why.

A bit off for the thread, and also kind of grim, but Jack Nance and Jerry Van Dyke's daughter Kelly Jean.

Joan Marshall, who guest starred on the Star Trek episode “Court Martial,” was briefly married to Hal Ashby.

Another oddity that's not exactly on topic (no marriages involved) is that Dick Van Dyke's live-in partner of 13 years, the late Michelle Triola, was the same woman previously known as Michelle Triola Marvin because she was Lee Marvin's live-in partner who sued him for money in the 1970s in the trial that gave us the word "palimony."

*correction: Michelle Triola lived w/DickVan Dyke for 33 years

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

Close call:

Liza Minnelli was engaged to Peter Sellers for a hot minute in 1973. So sad to imagine what could have been.

Complicating this dream match were the facts that both were technically married to other people at the time and Liza was also engaged to Desi Arnaz Jr.

Doesn’t work here, but family tree of Susan Kohner deserves a further look.

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.

Jan Smithers & James Brolin

Wow, good one.

Brolin went from Bailey to Babs!

This is one I just heard about a few days ago from a local NPR feature on KY actors.

Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl (writer of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory)

https://imgc.artprintimages.com/img/print/patricia-neal-with-roald-dahl-1954_u-l-q1byabs0.jpg?h=900&p=0&w=900

Fans of History Channel might know from an episode on Dahl that he was a bit of a player in more ways than one for British Intelligence.

I should say Drunk History not History Channel...LOL.

Katharine Ross and cinematographer Conrad Hall, they met when filming 'Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid'. Ross is now married to Sam Elliott.

Only recently discovered that Bob Dylan and Mavis Staples were an item. Dylan asked to marry her, but she turned him down.

Apparently Elliott was also in 'Butch Cassidy...' .