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

Two actors: Kurt Russell and Season Hubley. The latter is not well-known to me except as a vaguely remembered name but maybe they belong here because they met whilst playing Elvis and Priscilla.

Melina Mercouri and Jules Dassin:

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Fascinated with her after watching Phaedra the other day, despite the very miscast Anthony Perkins. Love that Dassin set a scene in the British Museum's Elgin Marbles room, given her campaign to have them returned to Greece.

Young Margaret Sullivan got rave reviews in a string of what were adjudged to be fuck-terrible plays, and some better ones (so good in also pre-Hollywood Preston Sturges'Strictly Dishonorable that even her parents shuddup about being on the road to etc). Dunno how The Devil In The Cheese was, but she did that one w Henry Fonda and married him, for two months (they still worked together, like in the movie The Moon's Our Home: Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell were brought in to punch up the dialogue, reportedly at Sullavan's insistence. Sullavan and Fonda play a newly-married couple, and the movie is a cavalcade of insults and quips.
Later took up with big time Broadway director Jed Harris, ladykiller and legendary asshole:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_Harris
Then married William Wyler, whom she met when he cast her (and she agreed, known to be a picky dame) in The Good Fairy:
The Good Fairy is a 1935 romantic comedy film written by Preston Sturges, based on the 1930 play A jó tündér by Ferenc Molnár as translated and adapted by Jane Hinton, which was produced on Broadway in 1931. The film was directed by William Wyler and stars Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan and Reginald Owen.

Sturges' screenplay diverges significantly from the Molnár play, and later became the basis for the book of the 1951 Broadway musical Make a Wish.[1] Sturges wrote a scene for a movie-within-the-movie, in which the leading man responds to the leading lady's impassioned pleading with the single word "Go", delivered in varying tones.
Guess you have to see it, and I hope to, kinda, considering the talent involved (I want to believe).

More to my interest is one she battled for,
Cry 'Havoc' (1943) is a World War II drama and a rare all-female film. Sullavan played the strong mother figure who keeps a crew of nurses in line in a dugout in Bataan, while they are awaiting the advance of Japanese soldiers who are about to take over. It was the last film Sullavan made with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After its completion, she was free of all film commitments. She had often referred to MGM and Universal as "jails". When her husband, Leland Hayward, tried to read her the good reviews of Cry 'Havoc', she responded with usual bluntness: "You read them, use them for toilet paper. I had enough hell with that damned picture while making it – I don't want to read about it now!"[16)

Yes, agent Leland Hayward was her husband after Wyler. She got sick of the movie biz and went back to the stage, also said it was so she could spend more time with their kids(?) Didn't work that well: eventually, the kids demanded to live full-time with their father (in Hollywood, not NYC, apparently): a crushed and crushing scene in daughter Brooke Hayward's memoir,Haywire(Brooke's suicidal sister and brother may have inherited depression of their mother, whose death by barbiturates was ruled suicide).
If that weren't bad enough, Brooke, also a sucessful actress, married---Dennis Hopper.

Hopper was married five times:

Brooke Hayward, married 1961 – divorced 1969, 1 child, daughter Marin Hopper (b. 1962)Met him when they were in a stage production of Mandingo, of all things; look it up. Also studied with Strasberg, and She delivered a memorable performance in the Twilight Zone episode "The Masks" in March 1964 And here she is with Groucho on GE Theater, both looking cool (bring back anthology TV!)
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Hayward and Groucho Marx in the General Electric Theater presentation of "The Hold Out", 1961
Her last screen appearance was in a small role in John Guare's 1993 film adaptation of Six Degrees of Separation, with Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland, and Will Smith. Also cool, and she's still with us.

His next: Michelle Phillips; married October 31, 1970 – divorced November 8, 1970 When my friend's marriage ended, he quoted Phillips' father, to the effect, "That was their Halloween." Didn't know she did so much acting, but she did. Was The Last Movie, for instance. Also a solo album I'd kinda like to hear

Then:
Daria Halprin; married 1972 – divorced 1976, 1 child, daughter Ruthanna Hopper (b. 1972) Knew her from Zabriskie Point of course, but before that, In 1968, she appeared in Revolution, a documentary by Jack O'Connell. Shot mainly in San Francisco, the film depicted the counterculture movement and featured a series of interviews with that city’s hippie residents.
After Zabriskie Point, she and co-star Mark Frechette alprin briefly joined self-styled guru Mel Lyman, a former member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, and his 100-member commune.[3]

In 1972, Halprin appeared in John Flynn's thriller The Jerusalem File.

Not too distracted by Hopper, n the 1970s, Halprin developed an interest in creative arts therapy. In 1978, she and her mother Anna founded the Tamalpa Institute[4] and developed the Halprin Process. She has written The Expressive Body in Life, Art and Therapy and Coming Alive: The Creative Expression Method, and she was a contributing author to Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy.

Was *in* The Last Movie, I meant to say.
Come in now, Number Three:
Katherine LaNasa; married June 17, 1989 – divorced April 1992, 1 child, son Henry Lee Hopper (b. 1990)
Ballet dancer, choreographer, and actress, who for instance did a whole helluva lotta TV, including:
LaNasa guest starred on number of television series, including Seinfeld, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Touched by an Angel, and The Practice, and in 2001 landed the lead role of Bess Bernstein-Flynn Keats in the NBC comedy series Three Sisters (2001–2002) opposite Dyan Cannon, A. J. Langer, and Vicki Lewis.[4] The series was cancelled after two seasons in 2002.[5] She later had recurring roles in Judging Amy as Yvonne Dunbar, as Kim McPherson on The Guardian, and as Michelle Colohan on NYPD Blue
... In 2011, after a decade of making various television appearances, she had roles opposite Will Ferrell and Zack Galifianakis in the 2012 political comedy The Campaign, and 2013 thriller The Frozen Ground.[8] Before this, she had a role in Billy Bob Thornton's drama film Jayne Mansfield's Car, originally created for Robin Wright.[8] Among other movies. Later a reg in reboot of Dynasty, scheduled for 2019 Apple TV w Octavia Spencer, but oh yeah about the matrimony:
LaNasa, at the age of 22, married 53-year-old actor Dennis Hopper in June 1989;[2] the couple divorced in April 1992. Hopper and LaNasa had a son, Henry Lee Hopper (born 1990).[16]

On May 19, 1998, she married actor French Stewart.[17] They met when she made a guest appearance on a 1996 episode ("Green-Eyed Dick") of 3rd Rock from the Sun.[18] The two later divorced.[17] In July 2012, LaNasa became engaged to actor Grant Show, marrying him a few weeks later, on August 18.[19][20] She gave birth to the couple's first child, daughter Eloise McCue, on March 21, 2014.[21][22]

No wiki article on the last wife, but---don't read this without an airsick bag, I meant it:
Divorce from Victoria Duffy
On January 14, 2010, Hopper filed for divorce from his fifth wife Victoria Duffy.[57] After citing her "outrageous conduct" and stating she was "insane", "inhuman" and "volatile", Hopper was granted a restraining order against her on February 11, 2010, and as a result, she was forbidden to come within 10 feet (3 m) of him or contact him.[58] On March 9, 2010, Duffy refused to move out of the Hopper home, despite the court's order that she do so by March 15.[59]

On March 23, 2010, he filed papers in court alleging Duffy had absconded with US$1.5 million of his art, refused his requests to return it, and then had "left town".[60]

On April 5, 2010, a court ruled that Duffy could continue living on Hopper's property, and that he must pay US$12,000 per month spousal and child support for their daughter Galen. Hopper did not attend the hearing.[61] On May 12, 2010, a hearing was held before Judge Amy Pellman in downtown Los Angeles Superior Court. Though Hopper died two weeks later, Duffy insisted at the hearing that he was well enough to be deposed.[62] The hearing also dealt with whom to designate on Hopper's life insurance policy, which listed his wife as a beneficiary.[63] A very ill Hopper did not appear in court though his estranged wife did. Despite Duffy's bid to be named the sole beneficiary of Hopper's million-dollar policy, the judge ruled against her and limited her claim to one-quarter of the policy. The remaining US$750,000 was to go to his estate.[64]

On November 14, 2010, it was revealed that, despite Duffy's earlier assertion in her court papers of February 2010 that Hopper was mentally incompetent and that his children had rewritten his estate plan in order to leave Duffy and her daughter, Hopper's youngest child Galen, destitute, Galen would in fact receive the proceeds of 40% of his estate.[65]

Illness and death

Hopper at a ceremony to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 26, 2010, two months before his death
On September 28, 2009, Hopper, then 73, was reportedly taken by ambulance to an unidentified Manhattan hospital wearing an oxygen mask and "with numerous tubes visible".[66] On October 2, he was discharged, after receiving treatment for dehydration.[67]

On October 29, 2009, Hopper's manager Sam Maydew reported that he had been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer.[68] In January 2010, it was reported that Hopper's cancer had metastasized to his bones.[69]

On March 18, 2010, he was honored with the 2,403rd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of Grauman's Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.[70] Surrounded by friends including Jack Nicholson, Viggo Mortensen, David Lynch, Michael Madsen, family and fans, he attended its addition to the sidewalk six days later.[71]

By March 2010, Hopper reportedly weighed only 100 pounds (45 kg) and was unable to carry on long conversations.[72] According to papers filed in his divorce court case, Hopper was terminally ill and was unable to undergo chemotherapy to treat his prostate cancer.[73][74]

Hopper died at his home in the coastal Venice district of Los Angeles, aged 74, on the morning of May 29, 2010.[75] His funeral took place on June 3, 2010, at San Francisco de Asis Mission Church in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. His body was buried at the Jesus Nazareno Cemetery in Ranchos de Taos.

The film Alpha and Omega, which was among his last film roles, was dedicated to him, as was the 2011 film Restless, which starred his son Henry Hopper.

Doesn't really work since the guy is a producer and not well-known but the list of bridesmaids gives an extra connection to this thread:

After the release of MASH, on December 17, 1970, Kellerman married Starsky & Hutch producer Rick Edelstein. Anjanette Comer, Morgan Ames, Lisabeth Hush, Joanne Linville, and Luana Anders were among her bridesmaids.  On March 6, 1972, Kellerman divorced Edelstein, citing irreconcilable differences.

Actually there is some more interesting stuff right after that in the Wikipedia article.

Wim Wenders and Ronee Blakley

He was also married to Isabelle Weingarten, who Bresson cast in Quatre Nuits d'une rêveur (in addition to a couple of actresses probably best known for working on his own films).

Wow, great find! She was also in La maman et la putain. Her Wikipedia page claims she was married to Olivier Assayas, but that doesn't seem to be correct.

It may be true? She seems to have been working mostly as a photographer at that point.

They seemed to have worked together and had some kind of relationship, not sure about marriage. Her wiki page also says she “starred” in La maman et la putain, which is not quite true.

IMDB just says relationship.

Have learned that in the 1980s before marrying into the Kardashians, Caitlyn Jenner was married to Linda Thompson. The same Linda Thompson who dated Elvis Presley 1972-1976, and who later became a successful songwriter.

Linda Thompson did some acting too, so qualifies for the thread

Another good find.

Posted this on rong thread, here tis!
Didn't know about her songwriting, did semi-recall that she and then-Bruce co-starred in a musical, Little Abner (he: Abner, she: Daisy Mae), Birmingham, https://www.al.com/entertainment/2015/04/bruce_jenner_on_stage_before_t.html (this from 2015, so no mention of Caitlyn). My friend's sister was in it, remembers Linda as gregarious, him as shy, but "stuck his head in the door, 'Hey, I'm Bruce.' ")

Linda also co-subject of this TV movie, which I thought was pretty good:
Elvis and the Beauty Queen

Memphis beauty queen Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist) recalls her five-year romance with Elvis Presley (Don Johnson).
Initial release: March 1, 1981
Director: Gus Trikonis
Starring: Don Johnson; Stephanie Zimbalist; Ann Dusenberry; Rick Lenz
Music by: Allyn Ferguson
Distributed by: NBC, Sony Pictures Television

― dow, Friday, February 25, 2022 1:34 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Speaking of director Gus Trikonis, He began his career as an actor and dancer, notably appearing in the hugely successful 1961 film West Side Story as Indio, one of the "Sharks",[1] as well as dancing with Debbie Reynolds and Grover Dale to the frantic "He's My Friend" in 1964's The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
...Trikonis was married to actress Goldie Hawn from 1969 to 1976; he was her first husband and they have the same birthday. His sister is Gina Trikonis, an actress who also appeared in West Side Story, as Graziella, Riff's girlfriend.[3] Way to go, Gus! (Hope he wasn't too bad, Goldie.)

― dow, Friday, February 25

No mention of new name in that 2015 piece, but eventually in there: He'll be in another spotlight Friday night at 8 p.m. on ABC, when an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer airs. Topics? The Kardashians, a recent fatal car wreck that involved the gold medalist, and long-standing rumors that he is taking steps to become a woman.

She married producers, not directors, but wow---didn't realize she'd had such a career, despite, as she says, not jumping at chance to capitalize on the success of M*A*S*H*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Kellerman
Guardian obit adds some detail about making of that movie and aftermath, also later gigs:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/feb/27/sally-kellerman-obituary
Xgau's review of her first (early 70s) album sympathized w her and other actors' non-Broadway musical ventures getting automatically dismissed or low-rated back then--review's not on his site, but think I read it in his 70s Record Guide---nope, not there either! Maybe it was another actress?? Wiki sez she released another album in 2009---also, For a time in the mid-1970s, Kellerman was involved with Mark Farner of the rock group Grand Funk Railroad. He wrote the song "Sally", from the 1976 album Born to Die, as an ode to their relationship. Wonder how it compares to "Rosanna"? Is there a thread for songs about actresses?

was merlin olsen married to belinda carlyle?

Songs about specific actresses

I always thought the Velvets' New Age was about the Norma Desmond character in Sunset Boulevard.

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Friday, January 13, 2012 10:24 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Mary Beth Hurt and Paul Schrader

Acclaimed novelist and director of 92 in the Shade (1975) Thomas McGuane was married to Margot Kidder in the 1970s. Earlier in the '70s he had had an affair with Elizabeth Ashley.

McGuane had a non-celeb first wife who Peter Fonda later married. McGuane evened the score by marrying Fonda's ex-wife Laurie Buffett, sister of Jimmy Buffett (I was reminded of this by the excellent Jimmy Buffett article in the current New Yorker magazine.

Margot Kidder AND Elizabeth Ashley? McGuane had a "type," didn't he?

Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Bayer;[1][2] 22 September 1940 – 14 December 2019)[3] was a Danish-French film avant garde actress, director, writer, and singer. She was French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard's collaborator in the 1960s

...In 1972, she set up a production company, Raska, for her directorial debut, Living Together (Vivre ensemble, 1973), in which she also acted. The film screened in the Critics’ Week lineup at the 26th Cannes Film Festival.[6]She later wrote and acted in Last Song (1987)(directed by her last husband, Dennis Berry, about whom more presently) Karina wrote, directed and starred in Victoria (2008), a musical road movie filmed in Montreal and Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. The lead character, played by Karina, has amnesia.[14] Richard Kuipers praised it in Variety as "a pleasant gambol through the backwoods of Quebec."[31].

Music and writing
Karina maintained a singing career.[26] At the end of the 1960s, she scored a major hit with "Sous le soleil exactement" and "Roller Girl" by Serge Gainsbourg. Both songs are from the TV musical comedy Anna (1967), by the film director Pierre Koralnik, in which she sings seven songs alongside Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Brialy. Karina subsequently recorded an album, Une histoire d'amour, with Philippe Katerine, which was followed by a concert tour. In 2005, she released Chansons de films, a collection of songs sung in movies.

Karina wrote four novels: Vivre ensemble (1973), Golden City (1983), On n'achète pas le soleil (1988), and Jusqu'au bout du hasard (1998).[7]

While working together on Le Petit Soldat, Karina and Godard began a relationship and married in 1961.[32] Eventually, Karina served as a cinematic muse to Godard, appearing in eight of his films, including Alphaville, Bande à part, and Pierrot le Fou, during their five-year marriage and after. Karina liked being the muse. "How could I not be honoured?" she told Xan Brooks of The Guardian in 2016. "Maybe it's too much, it sounds so pompous. But of course I’m always very touched to hear people say that. Because Jean-Luc gave me a gift to play all of those parts. It was like Pygmalion, you know? I was Eliza Doolittle and he was the teacher." At this, she briefly channels Henry Higgins. "By Jove," she says. "I think she's got it."[10]

The couple became, according to The Independent, "one of the most celebrated pairings of the 1960s."[26] A writer for Filmmaker magazine called their work "arguably the most influential body of work in the history of cinema."[33]

Despite the critical success, their relationship behind the scenes was described as tumultuous; they fought on film sets, Karina fell ill several times, and Godard was often absent without explanation.[23][18][34] One Godard film from this period which does not feature Karina, Contempt (1963), is said to be based on their difficult relationship.[16] The couple divorced in 1965.[18]

After divorcing Godard, Karina remarried three times; she was married to French actors Pierre Fabre from 1968 to 1974 and Daniel Duval from 1978 to 1981, and to American film director Dennis Berry from 1982 until her death.[18][36]

Karina died at the age of 79 on Saturday, 14 December 2019, at a hospital in Paris. According to her agent, Laurent Balandras, the cause of death was cancer.[14] However, her husband, Dennis Berry, said that the cause was not cancer, but a complication following a muscular rupture.[37]
from 2014 Twitter, thence to the Giant Sand/Howe Gelb thread:

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Joan Vich Montaner ‏@joanvich

. @howegelb_ estuvo ayer grabando un dueto con Anna Karina (sí, ¡Anna Karina!). Mañana empieza su gira española.

Dennis Berry!
Dennis Charles Berry (August 11, 1944 – June 12, 2021)[1] was an American-French film director, actor, and screenwriter.[2] He was the son of director John Berry.

Selected filmography
La Collectionneuse (actor, 1967)
Paulina Is Leaving – Paulina s'en va (actor, 1969)
Promise at Dawn (actor, 1970)
Borsalino (actor, 1970)
The Big Delirium (director, 1975)
Last Song (director, 1987)
Chloé (director, 1996)
Stargate SG-1 (director, 1997)
Highlander: The Raven (director, 1998)
Adventure Inc. (director 2 episodes, 2003)
Mata Hari (director, 2016 TV series)[3][4]

Wonder if I can get a bigger pic, putting sep:

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above AK info from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karina

Well the really interesting thing about Dennis Berry is that not only was he married to Anna Karina at the time of her death, but he had also been married to (though separated from) Jean Seberg at the time of her death.

Oh, good catch. I only knew about Jean Seberg's marriage to Romain Gary.

Mylène van der Mersch was married to a Dutch filmmaker named François Weyergans, who assisted Robert Bresson and directed a documentary about him in the mid-60's. Bresson apparently proposed to Anne Wiazemsky while they worked on Au Hazard, Balthazar; though she didn't accept, at some point he married van der Mersch (who appears in the film under the name Mylène Weyergans). She went on to be his assistant director for the rest of his life.

Jean Simmons and Richard Brooks.

Dennis Hopper and Michelle Phillips
Dennis Hopper and Daria Halprin (from Zabriskie Point)

Noticed that last one recently.

The last time I remember Zabriskie Point coming up

I posted upthread, not very long ago, about all of Hopper's wives, also one of his mothers-in-law, and her marital connections.

His first wife Brooke Hayward, Margaret Sullavan's daughter, or so I gather.

You are correct, sir (DING!)(applause)

Dennis Hopper and Michelle Phillips; married October 31, 1970 – divorced November 8, 1970

Chaining your bride to the radiator is not a good recipe for a long-lasting marriage?!?

No comment.

Not a director but an agent and producer. Freddie Fields was married four times including to Polly Bergen (recently seen on To Tell the Truth #onethread) and to Kyriaki "Corinna" Tsopei, the Greek Miss Universe who played the love interest in A Man Called Horse.

In 2004, Bergen played Fran Felstein on HBO's The Sopranos, the former mistress of Johnny Soprano and John F. Kennedy.

Yeah, was noticing that. Also, Freddie Fields seems like kind of a John Derek figure. #Onethread.

Had no recollection of that from having watched the show when it first ran.

Shoehorning in:
After Ernie Kovacs died, Edie Adams remarried and then divorced and remarried again, this time to Pete Candoli, who she met when they were both in a touring company of Anything Goes. Don’t think I ever told you guys that one summer I worked for Actor’s Equity behind the Plaza Theater and helped open the mail from all those touring companies. The regular companies too maybe, but for some reason that wasn’t as memorable to me.

Mirren lived with Northern Irish actor Liam Neeson during the early 1980s; they met while working on Excalibur (1981). When interviewed by James Lipton for Inside the Actors Studio, Neeson said Mirren was instrumental in him getting an agent.

Mirren began dating American director Taylor Hackford in 1986. They were married on 31 December 1997 at the Ardersier Parish Church near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands.[104] They met on the set of White Nights (1985). It is her first marriage and his third (he has two children from his previous marriages). She has no children, stating she has "no maternal instinct whatsoever".[105]

Mirren's autobiography, In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures, was published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in September 2007. Reviewing for The Stage, John Thaxter wrote: "Sumptuously illustrated, at first sight it looks like another of those photo albums of the stars. But between the pictures there are almost 200 pages of densely printed text, an unusually frank story of her private and professional life, mainly in the theatre, the words clearly Mirren's own, delivered with forthright candour."[106]

Oh yeah, scrolled past mention of somebody involved with a Redd Krosser, and reminded me of Sofia Coppola dating RK's Steven MacDonald (wiki re their Third Eye: The naked masked woman on the cover of the album is Sofia Coppola.[7][8]) Otherwise:

n 1992, Coppola met director Spike Jonze; they married in 1999 and divorced in 2003. In an official statement, Coppola's publicist explained that the divorce decision was reached "with sadness". It is widely believed that the main character's husband in Lost in Translation is based on Jonze, as Coppola stated after the film's release, "There are elements of Spike there, elements of experiences."[86][87]

From 2003 to 2005 Coppola dated filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. They have remained friends since their separation.[88]

Coppola married musician Thomas Mars on August 27, 2011, at Palazzo Margherita in Bernalda, Italy. They met while producing the soundtrack to The Virgin Suicides.[89] They have two daughters: Romy (born November 28, 2006), whose name is an homage to Coppola's brother Roman,[90][91] and Cosima (born May 2010).[citation needed]

Thomas Pablo Croquet (born 21 November 1976), known as Thomas Mars, is a French musician and the lead singer of the French indie pop band Phoenix.

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain)
7mo ago
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.

ABBA was going to write a song about those two men, but they changed the title at the last minute to "Andante, Andante".

This is as good a time as any to bring up Lana Turner's steamy affair with Kool-Aid Man.