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

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)

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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...' .

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.

Watching Gunsmoke alerted me to another actress on the Star Trek/Mannix circuit, Julie Parrish, previously mentioned here: Elvis Girls

The aforementioned Katherine Ross and Sam Elliott are in the show that is on now after Gunsmoke, The Sacketts, although this is from before they were married.

I knew about Julie London and Bobby Troup of course, but a little while ago I learned and forgot that she was previously married to Jack Webb.

Probably everyone else knew this and at least one participant is not so old-timey, but Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen.

I just learned about that one the other day. Hard to imagine going from being married to the guy from Clockwork Orange to being married to the guy from Cheers.

André Morell & Joan Greenwood

Peter Vaughan & Billie Whitelaw

Sidney Lumet & Gloria Vanderbilt (who was also married to Leopold Stokowski!)
Don Siegel & Viveca Lindfors

Good ones. Apparently Siegel & Lindfors met when making Night Unto Night(1949), Siegel's 2nd film and Lindfors' first after moving to America (though not the first released). Wikipedia describes the film as a "major box-office flop."

The late Dean Stockwell and Millie Perkins, the interesting actress who was featured in Monte Hellman's The Shooting (1966) and the psych-horror film The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976) and was Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

These last few are amazing, thanks

sorry, unrelated, but re: millie perkins:

"Recent to her retirement, she was honored in the 2004 action-adventure video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, in which one of the storyline girlfriends to protagonist Carl "CJ" Johnson, voiced by Orfeh, was named after her. "

No worries, not too many threads about Millie Perkins so this thread will do fine.

Building off the Dino, Desi & Billy talk in the obits thread:

Dino Martin was married to both Olivia Hussey AND Dorothy Hamill!

!

Man there is more going on around that but I haven’t come across an actual marriage so I will keep mum for now.

Should I have known that Tuesday Weld was married to Dudley Moore in the late '70s? It would seem so

An actress about the same age as James MacArthur told me about some trouble that made the news in re his adoptive mother, Helen Hayes, blanking on details, but think it was follow-up to this:
When stage great Helen Hayes died in 1993, her son, James MacArthur, inherited her Victorian mansion overlooking the Hudson River in Nyack, N.Y. MacArthur arranged to sell the house for $730,000 to Christopher and Georgine Chalsen, who planned to live there with their five children.Jan 7, 1996

Steering Clear Of Title Trouble - Bloomberg Rest of it is paywalled, but that's the gist.

Wiki bio has him working his ass off for years and years and years, in tons of shows, flicks, sometimes other:
he BBC Radio 5 Live obituary program Brief Lives, in which he paid tribute to his Hawaii Five-O castmate, the late Kam Fong. In 1997, MacArthur returned without Jack Lord (who was in declining health) to reprise his character, who had become Hawaii's governor, in the 1997 unaired pilot of Hawaii Five-O which starred actor Gary Busey.

In April 2003, he traveled to Honolulu's historic Hawaii Theatre for a cameo role in Joe Moore's play Dirty Laundry. Negotiations were underway in summer 2010 for MacArthur to make a cameo appearance in the new CBS primetime remake of Hawaii Five-O at the time of his death, a role that eventually was given to Al Harrington. On the November 1, 2010, episode, MacArthur's death was mentioned in a short tribute that played before the start of that episode.

In 2001, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to him.[19]
Personal life and death
MacArthur's first wife was Joyce Bulifant. On the set of The Angry Breed (1968), MacArthur met actress Melody Patterson, who became his second wife. They wed on Kauai in July 1970 and divorced five years later. His third wife was former LPGA golfer Helen Beth Duntz. MacArthur had four children: Charles P. MacArthur, Mary McClure, Juliette Rappaport, and James D. MacArthur.[20]

MacArthur died on October 28, 2010, at the age of 72, of natural causes, at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida What does that mean? I hate natural causes, and 72 is the new 40, by cracky.

Somebody please find reboot pilot w Busey.

Oh, after "sometimes other," I meant to include:
Throughout his career, MacArthur had also found time for various other ventures. From 1959 to 1960, he partnered with actors James Franciscus and Alan Ladd, Jr. in a Beverly Hills telephone answering service. In June 1972, he directed the Honolulu Community Theatre in a production of his father's play The Front Page. James F. and Ladd Jr. were, uh, kinda skeevy I heard, can't verify but he was prob wise not to continue partnership.