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

Like Elvis with Priscilla, James MacArthur met Melody Patterson when she was a teenager and waited till she turned 21 to marry her

Very good.
March 28, 1960, Franciscus married Kathleen "Kitty" Wellman, the daughter of film director William A. Wellman....after the couple's divorce he married Carla Ankney in 1980.

They were still married at the time of Franciscus's 1991 death from emphysema in North Hollywood, California, at 57. Also quite a career:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Franciscus
Gotta say he was my childhood hero for a while, as intense teacher Mr. Novak!
He starred in I Passed for White (1960), and in 1963 he appeared as Mike Norris in the episode "Hang By One Hand" on the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour. He also guest-starred on Combat!, The F.B.I. and Miracle of the White Stallions. Franciscus may be best remembered for his title roles in NBC's Mr. Novak (1963–65) and ABC's Longstreet (1971–72) which included his blind character taking martial arts lessons in Jeet Kune Do from the late Bruce Lee as Li Tsung in four episodes,[2] and for his vocal performance in the big-screen version of Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)

Of course the marital that used to trip people out back in their professional heyday: Anne Bancroft & Mel Brooks.

Tyne Daly was married to actor-director Georg Stanford Brown from 1966 to 1990.
He was in Roots and a bunch of other stuff, but mainly put this in here because she's awesome. Goddam Tyne, lots of Emmys, also Tony, also she got Dolly Parton to duet w her on Dolly's show, and producer so impress he put her in new production of Gypsy, she did the hell out of that, then to Chekhov's The Seagull, of course.
Remembered her father, James, as cool on lots of ancient shows, so looked up him and his marriage (to Hope Newell, 1942-65), found this:
According to his son Tim Daly during an interview on CBS News Sunday Morning, James Daly came out to Tim as gay a decade after divorcing his wife Hope. His struggle to come to terms with his sexual orientation nearly put a rift between him and his family. As homosexuality was still considered a mental illness until the early 1970s, he and his wife tried and failed at "curing" him. After their divorce, Daly decided to limit his contact with his children out of fear that they would end up mentally ill themselves.[5]

Two of Daly's children, Tyne Daly and Tim Daly ](of Wings, on which Tyne appeared), and his granddaughter, Kathryne Dora Brown, and grandson, Sam Daly, are actors. Tyne appeared on Daly's TV series, Foreign Intrigue, as a child. She also played Jennifer Lochner, Paul Lochner's adult daughter, on Medical Center in the 1970 season 1 episode Moment of Decision. The elder Daly and his daughter both guest-starred separately in the original Mission: Impossible TV series. Tim appeared as a child with his father in Henrik Ibsen's play, An Enemy of the People. Daly had two other children: daughters Mary Glynn and Pegeen Michael.[6]

Death
Daly died on July 3, 1978, of heart failure in Nyack, New York,[6] two years after Medical Center ended, and while he was preparing to star in the play Equus in Tarrytown, New York.[7] His ashes were sprinkled into the Atlantic Ocean. 59.
Sorry to be Debbie Downer with the copypasta here, carry on.

Pretty sure I remember MacArthur and Bulifant being on Tattle Tales, the celeb couple game show that Bert Convy hosted.

Eh, IMDB says no.

Tattle Tales has a looming presence over this thread.

XP They were divorced way before Tattle Tales, although she probably appeared with one of her other husbands.

It was Edward Mallory she was onTattletales with.You just knew seeing them together it wasn’t gonna last

Dang.
Jo Ann Pflug's name popped into my head again this morning. Though best known to me this way: Pflug's first major role was as U.S. Army nurse Lt. Maria "Dish" Schneider in the 1970 film M*A*S*H, she was also a frequent panelist on the television game show Match Game from 1973 until 1981,[7] a co-host with Allen Funt on the 1970s version of Candid Camera, and...Pflug married Chuck Woolery in 1972 at the Knowles Memorial Chapel at Rollins College in Orlando, Florida.[8] They had a daughter, Melissa. The couple divorced in 1980.[4][9]

She married Charles Young in 1988.[citation needed]
In 1997, she was in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil---is it good?

Just came back to this website I hit every once in a blue moon, usually for music.

https://www.museumofthegulfcoast.org/notable-people-hall-of-fame

This time clicked on Notables and found two actresses who qualify, although one has already been mentioned and the other isn't really old-timey.

Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton, parents of Martha. There are posts in the archive from Morbius and Shakey about this.

David Carradine and Barbara Hershey. Never married, although they worked together a fair bit, including on Kung Fu and in Boxcar Bertha, and had a child who was, um, born Free but later changed names to Tom.

K. Carradine originally wrote "I'm Easy" from Nashville as part of his wooing Plimpton when they were both appearing in a production of Hair.

Yes, that’s what Morbius said. I guess those two were not actually married. Keith’s first wife was Sandra Will (never heard of her) and there ddd some scandal around their divorce case involving a PI.

I don't think I knew anything about Tyne Daly's father, James Daly, especially didn't know that he was on the Star Trek:TOS episode "Requiem for Methuselah" or Rod Serling's favorite Twilight Zone episode (and mine), "A Stop at WIlloughby."

Although maybe he liked something on the second season better.

The train conductor played the bartender on All in the Family, just to continue the, um, derail.

Jason Wingreen, who was also the voice of Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back, one of ILX's top 100 films of all time, not that IGAF

Thanks.

Don't think we talked about how Liza Minelli and Desi Arnaz, Jr. lived together for a while and were engaged briefly.

Was reminded of this because there is a hippie chick who looks quite a bit like Liza at the -20:00 mark of the VU doc #OneThread

That must have been just before Liza was engaged to Peter Sellers (she was actually married to Peter Allen throughout this time). Desi Arnaz Jr. was coming off his thing with Patty Duke, when he probably did not father her child, Sean Astin.

Thanks. Saw most of that other stuff earlier in the week but it overflowed my buffer and I couldn’t quite remember any of it.

No worries, I don’t pretend to understand any of this, I’m just reporting the bits and pieces that occur to me in the moment

Same here. It’s not like there is some Pete Frame figure for this stuff drawing us a diagram.

Haha, there should be though

Maybe the same person who did that excellent Match Game mapping can step up to the plate.

Wait what? Who did this Match Game mapping?

Match Game

Huh... I pretty much nailed it there.

Zsa Zsa Gabor and George Sanders. Can you imagine?

^^ said in the voice of Alfred Hitchcock

Somehow reminding me of the (final?) Green Acres episode I recently read about which was a failed pilot featuring Elaine Joyce and Richard Deacon.

xxp and also her sister magda!

... for just over a month!

I had to blink and check if it was April Fool’s Day when I saw that Liza Minnelli was once married to Jack Haley Jr. I guess John Lahr was unavailable.

That’s a good one, but it has also led me to discover that John Lahr is *currently* married to Connie Booth of ‘Fawlty Towers’ fame

!

Some good detail in the John Lahr Wikipedia article, including that his mother was a former Miss Cincinnati, much the same way Lou Reed’s mother, Toby, had been voted Queen of the Stenographers in her office in 1939. #OneThread

Wait not just her office but all of NYC. If she had won a year later she would have given Ginger Rogers a special scroll in Grand Central Station at the Stenographer’s Ball.

I knew that Jean-Michel Jarre and Charlotte Rampling were married for awhile, but I didn't know that Jarre was also married to Anne Parillaud and is currently married to Gong Li.

I think I recently learned and quickly forgot about that, so thanks for posting, when somebody like JBL posted something on Friendbook.

Can't find it now though.

Jean Marsh - co-creator of and played 'Rose' in Upstairs Downstairs. Married to Jon Pertwee from 1955 until their divorce in 1960, and had relationships with Albert Finney, Kenneth Haigh, and Michael Lindsay-Hogg.

Also a candidate for 'the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive'. 87 years old.

Cool. Don’t know if I ever saw that Twilight Zone episode she was in.

Not married but Stella Stevens and guitarist Bob Kulick were together from 1983 till his death last year.

About to bust up in here like Kool-Aid Man with Ron Dante and Lana Turner, but her Ron Dante wasn't _the_ Ron Dante.

(xxpost: James! Go watch that ep NOW---one of the best TZs evah, in terms of effective production, casting, and no or minimal DO YOU SEE moralism overloading poignant clarity)
xpost:Stella and Bob reminding me of Les Dudek and---hold please for eventual thread relevance:
He (Les Dudek) had built quite a reputation around the Florida area as a proficient guitar player, having started playing in local bands as a teenager. Those bands were "The United Sounds", "Blue Truth" and "Power". That reputation would place him in the studio with the Allman Brothers Band for the recording of the Brothers & Sisters album.[1] He played guitar harmonies with Dickey Betts on the well-known song "Ramblin' Man" and acoustic guitar on "Jessica".[1][4] In Alan Paul's book, One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band, Dudek claimed to have written the part in "Jessica" from when it modulated into G then eventually back to A.[5]
...He later collaborated with Cher, Stevie Nicks, and with two other Columbia artists, Mike Finnigan and Jim Krueger, with whom he formed The Dudek Finnigan Krueger Band in 1978. A DFKB album was released by Columbia Records a year later.[1]

Between the years 1979 and 1982, Les and Cher had a personal as well as professional relationship.[6][7] Dudek wrote and performed some of the music for the 1984 movie Mask starring Cher, Sam Elliott, Eric Stoltz, and Laura Dern.From Cher main article:
In 1980, alongside Italian record producer Giorgio Moroder, Cher wrote her last Casablanca disco recording, "Bad Love", for the film Foxes.[109] She formed the rock band Black Rose that year with her then-lover, guitarist Les Dudek. Although Cher was the lead singer, she did not receive top billing because she wanted to create the impression that all band members were equal. Since she was easily recognized when she performed with the band, she developed a punk look by cutting her trademark long hair. Despite appearances on television, the band failed to earn concert dates.[110] Their album Black Rose received unfavorable reviews; Cher told Rolling Stone, "The critics panned us, and they didn't attack the record. They attacked me. It was like, 'How dare Cher sing rock & roll?'"[53]
(They didn't like Allman and Woman much either, seems like.)
While she was with Dudek, Dickey Betts married Cher's assistant, Paulette (can't find her last name, but think it was Coelho? Mother of Duane Betts, who grew up on road w Allman Brothers Band, and is now co-leader of Allman Betts Band.
(Dudek got around quite a bit professionally as well, should write his own book.)

Late last night, on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, I saw Felicia Farr as a lonely, somewhat careless/princessy, playin', wanderin' around housewife and stepmother, spied on and gaslighted by weirdo new kid in the neighborhood Bruce Dern--as written, directed and played, a fairly nuanced female character, struggling with personal contradictions and male gazes (incl. that husband, somewhat manipulated by Dern), for this pulp genre, show and especially era.

Recalled seeing her in some other shows, ones I wish we still got on these digital antenna channels, like Naked City and It Takes A Thief. Movies incl. original 3:10 to Yuma and The Venetian Affair.

Also (husbands appear right after this):
Farr's later films include the bawdy Billy Wilder farce Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) with Dean Martin and Ray Walston later star of My Favorite Martian as her husband, a role originally intended for Jack Lemmon; Walter Matthau's daughter-in-law in Kotch (1971, Lemmon's only film as director); the Don Siegel bank-heist caper Charley Varrick (1973) with Matthau; and more than 30 TV appearances on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Bonanza, Ben Casey, Burke's Law, and many others.

Personal life
On September 2, 1949, Dines married TV actor Lee Farr,[9] a marriage which produced a daughter, Denise Farr, who later became the wife of actor Don Gordon. Farr's second husband was actor Jack Lemmon; they married in 1962 while Lemmon was filming the comedy Irma La Douce in Paris. They remained married until his death in 2001.[1]

During her marriage to Jack Lemmon, Farr gave birth to a daughter, Courtney, in 1966.[1] She is also the stepmother of Lemmon's son, actor and author Chris Lemmon, from his first marriage.
Yep, "is": she's still with us, age 89, according to wiki.

That explains a lot. Remember watching Kiss Me, Stupid with a friend who commented that he thought Ray Walston was playing what should have been the Jack Lemmon role. We had no idea that it had been intended for Lemmon but knew of his history with Wilder and thought it appropriate when we learned that Felicia Farr was his wife.

Forgot that Arlene Dahl (RIP) had been married to Fernardo Lamas and was Lorenzo Lamas's mother.

Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.