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

Linda Darnell was married to some award-winning cinematographer I never heard of before, Peverell Marley.

This thread does not seem to mention that George Sanders was also married to Magda Gabor. Although it is mentioned on this other thread by amateurist: Who was George Sanders?

Speaking of these last two mentions, the second wife of the German-born director of Hangover Square, John Brahm, was German-then-American actress Dolly Haas who, a few years after divorcing Brahm married caricaturist Al Hirschfeld and a few years later gave birth to, you guessed it, Nina.

Robert Wolders, mentioned upthread, played a handsome ski instructor on an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show #onethread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYaPvU8q9A4
Bonus points for Lisa Gerritsen.

Was watching an Italian James Bond knockoff from the ‘60s in which French actor Jacques Bergerac (Gigi) played essentially the Dr. Evil character.

Didn’t know Bergerac was once married to Ginger Rogers. Not just that, but she “discovered” him and brought him to MGM.

Also didn’t know that Bergerac was subsequently married to Dorothy Malone.

Wow

not quite the thread topic, but i was unprepared to learn that greta scacchi was married to both tim finn and vincent d'onofrio

She's in this video for Tim Finn's Carve You In Marble:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_oOZz--Xfg

I love this song.

Evelyn Keyes was married to someone I never heard of, then Charles Vidor, then John Huston, then later Artie Shaw, although being married to Artie Shaw, similar to being married Mickey Rooney, should probably not count.

― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, June 30, 2019 8:46 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

i was coming here with this one (just watched here comes mr. jordan the other night). to be fair, she was married to artie shaw for almost 30 years, his longest marriage by a significant amount

also charles vidor is a different person than king vidor (something i did not realize initially)

King Charles... Vidor

Denholm Elliott and Virginia McKenna.

Not quite old timey and never married but... Patti Lupone and Kevin Kline.

Even less old times and definitely married: Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates

*timey

Technically doesn’t quite work but: Walter Matthau’s wife Carol, who was supposedly the inspiration for Holly Golightly as well as Glenn Close’s portrayal of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, had previously been married to William Saroyan.

She's in Mikey and Nicky. Her memoir, Among the Porcupines, is a great read and talks about the making of the film.

i learned last week that james mason was belinda carlisle's father-in-law

Feel like I just read or heard something about him coaching another, younger actor or actress, telling them to close their eyes right before the camera started rolling, both as a way to concentrate and to dilate the pupils

Two actors: Betty Garrett and Larry Parks

Beata Tyszkiewicz and Andrzej Wajda

Barbara Rhoades and Bernie Orenstein!

Barbara Rhoades and Bernie Orenstein!

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OMG THOSE TWO???

Are you making a joke because it got double posted for whatever reason and you don’t even know who they are?

Okay I did put an exclamation point it’s true.

RIP Anouk Aimee---married to Albert Finney 1970-77, but he didn't direct anything that I can find----she also wed Nikos AKA Nico Papatakis:

Papatakis was born to Greek parents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and spent his early years between Ethiopia and Greece. In 1939, he established himself in Paris and worked as an extra in films. Eventually, he owned the famous Parisian club 'La Rose Rouge' where performers included singer Juliette Gréco.

In 1957, Papatakis moved to New York City, where he met John Cassavetes, and became co-producer of Cassavetes' Shadows (1959). In New York he also met German singer Nico, who had adopted his first name as her stage name several years earlier while modelling for photographer Herbert Tobias. Tobias was in love with Papatakis at the time and had given her the stage name Nico in honor of him. Papatakis and Nico ended up living together between 1959 and 1961.[4] It was Papatakis who suggested Nico pursue a career in music and enrolled her in her first singing lessons.[5]

In 1963, his first film, Les Abysses, enjoyed a "Succès de scandale" and was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival, which refused to show it.[6] In 1967, he directed another film, Oi Voskoi (The Shepherds in Greek), which starred his wife at the time, Olga Karlatos. During the Algerian War, he was active in the Front de Liberation National. He returned to filmmaking in 1987 with a film in Greek, I Photografia (The Photograph). His last movie was Walking a Tightrope (1992).

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/solitary-anarchist

Olga Karlatos was also in Italian horror films and played Prince's mom in Purple Rain. Just after she and Nico Papatakis divorced she married Arthur Rankin, Jr., co-founder of the Rankin/Bass stop-motion animation outfit.

Good catch! I had to look up Olga Karlatos which search response also linked Olga Bisera, although as far as I know she wasn't married to anyone famous.

RIP Donald Sutherland, reminding me, also via havimg recently read Don't Look Now, that DS co-starred w Julie Christie in the film. dir. Nic Roeg, who was married to Thersea Russell, maybe best known for his movies, though she did a lot more, starting with a good performance in The Last Tycoon(1976); also took on some adventurous projects aside from Roeg's , incl.

In 1978, Russell starred opposite Dustin Hoffman in the critically-acclaimed crime drama Straight Time...a lead role as a serial killer in Bob Rafelson's neo-noir film Black Widow (1987), which garnered her significant commercial attention.... Other roles from this time included the crime dramas Physical Evidence (1989) and Impulse (1990).
In 1991, Russell starred as a prostitute in Ken Russell's satirical drama Whore, followed by Steven Soderbergh's In 1991, Russell starred as a prostitute in Ken Russell's satirical drama Whore, followed by Steven Soderbergh's experimental black-and-white feature, Kafka, co-starring Jeremy Irons. After appearing in a number of independent films in the mid-1990s, Russell had a supporting role in the commercially successful neo-noir Wild Things (1998), and the critically-acclaimed drama The Believer (2001).

The song "Athena" by the rock group The Who, was written about a chance meeting with Pete Townshend, who was smitten and rejected by her. The single appears on the band's 1982 album, It's Hard.

Effective in Straight Time but a terrible actress imo

Hazel Court (10 February 1926 – 15 April 2008) was an English actress. She is known for her roles in British and American horror films during the 1950s and early 1960s, including Terence Fisher's The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) for Hammer Film Productions, and three of Roger Corman's adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories for American International Pictures: The Premature Burial (1962), The Raven (1963) and The Masque of the Red Death (1964).

In 1964, Court married actor and director Don Taylor, whom she met while they were shooting an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

He co-starred in 1940s and 1950s classics, including the 1948 film noir The Naked City, Battleground, Father of the Bride, Father's Little Dividend and Stalag 17. He later turned to directing films such as Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Tom Sawyer (1973), Echoes of a Summer (1976), and Damien - Omen II (1978)

RIP Yvonne Furneaux, 98:

She made her film debut with a minor role in Anthony Pelissier's omnibus comedy Meet Me Tonight (1952). She subsequently played several supporting parts, including in Peter Brook's 1953 film version of The Beggar's Opera, the adventure films The Master of Ballantrae and The Dark Avenger, and the mystery film The House of the Arrow. She played the female lead in the Hammer horror film The Mummy.

In 1955, she starred in Michelangelo Antonioni's Le Amiche, which won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and launched a successful parallel career in Italian cinema. She played Emma, the fiancée to Marcello Mastroianni's character, in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita. She played leading roles in several peplum films, and she returned to her native France to star in a pair of films for director Claude Autant-Lara (The Count of Monte Cristo and Enough Rope).

In 1965, she played the sister of Catherine Deneuve's character in Roman Polanski's psychological thriller Repulsion.

Jacques Natteau (15 November 1920 – 17 April 2007) was a French director of photography.

...He later remembered that, on 4 February 1934, he literally ran for his life as violent riots broke out in Paris prior to the collapse of the French government.
Growing up in Paris's artistic 6ème arrondissement in the 1930s, Natteau came to know some of its most successful residents including Jean Cocteau, Jacques Prévert, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Pablo Picasso.

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...n 1938, the legendary French film director, Jean Renoir, gave him his first job as assistant camera man for the film La Bête humaine. But his career was interrupted by the onset of World War II.

...Upon France's collapse in 1940, Jacques Natteau linked up with the Royal Air Force and fought in the Battle of Britain. His exploits earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross and the French Legion of Honor.

After the war, he resumed his career in the late 1940s and went on to become one of Europe's most famous cinematographers in the 1950s and 1960s. Natteau was the favoured cinematographer for Claude Autant-Lara.[1]

He served as cinematographer for such French directors including Jean Renoir, Claude Autant-Lara, Marc Allégret, Marcel Carné and Jules Dassin. Among the films to his credit as cinematographer are He Who Must Die, Never on Sunday, Phaedra, and Le Comte de Monte Cristo. Claude Autant-Lara.

In 1961, while working on Le Comte de Monte Cristo, he met actress Yvonne Furneaux...[2] They lived between London, Paris, and Rome in the 1960s as they continued to pursue their film careers. They were married from 1962 until his death.[3]Jacques Natteau died of pneumonia while traveling in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 17 April 2007.

from Hollywood Reporter's YF obit:

She also was the female lead in the Hammer horror film The Mummy (1959), starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Though she considered the project less than ideal, she said she ultimately learned from those actors that “if you don’t take a film like The Mummy seriously and put your heart and soul into it, then you can bring it down,” she explained in Mark A. Miller’s 2010 book, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and Horror Cinema.

Hold the phone!

...successful parallel career in Italian cinema. She played Emma, the fiancée to Marcello Mastroianni's character, in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita. She played leading roles in several peplum films

Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (pl.: pepla), is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or biblical epics mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budget Hollywood historical epics of the time...

...These films dominated the Italian film industry from 1958 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by spaghetti Western and Eurospy films.[2][3]

The terms "peplum" and "sword-and-sandal" were used in a condescending way by film critics. Later, the terms were embraced by fans of the films, similar to the terms "spaghetti Western" or "shoot-'em-ups". In their English versions, peplum films can be immediately differentiated from their Hollywood counterparts by their use of "clumsy and inadequate" English language dubbing.[4] A 100-minute documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre was produced and directed by Antonio Avati in 1977 titled Kolossal: i magnifici Maciste (aka Kino Kolossal).[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

tbh they shd start making films starring just a REALLY LARGE ACTUAL GUY again, it's time

Amen! And "pepla" is a long female-associated garment---considering thee bodybuilder centrism, seems like this kind of flick should be called:

Perizoma (from Greek περίζωμα, from peri "around, about" and zoma "loin-cloth, drawers, band, belt") is a type of loincloth that originated with the Minoan civilization in Crete.

TIL that actress Silvana Mangano, wife of Dino De Laurentiis, had a Top 10 Pop hit in the US in 1953 with "Anna," a movie theme she didn't actually sing (a song which btw was not originally titled "Anna" either).

Checking this page, I guess nobody was surprised by Vittorio Gassman & Shelley Winters. Gassman's prior wife was Nora Ricci, who appeared in a number of classic Italian films of the '50s-'70s.

I saw a facebook post that said Fred Armisen has been married to Riki Lindholme (the other half of Garfunkel and Oates) for 2 years and when I wiki-ed him I saw that he had been married to Sally Timms (!) and Elizabeth Moss. And not married to Carrie Brownstein (I thought they were) and in a relationship with Natasha Lyonne. Fucker gets around!

TIL that actress Silvana Mangano, wife of Dino De Laurentiis, had a Top 10 Pop hit in the US in 1953 with "Anna," a movie theme she didn't actually sing (a song which btw was not originally titled "Anna" either).

Have never seen the original film, but the Wikipedia page is interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Negro_Zumb%C3%B3n

Didn’t know Lattuada directed it either

I remain fascinated by the film mentioned here, with her, Alberto Sordi, Bette Davis and Joseph Cotten: Post by Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs) from C/D: Bette Davis on ILX - C/D: Bette Davis

ANNA not available for streaming. But there is also Robert Rossen picture called MAMBO with her and Vittorio Gassman again … and Michael Rennie!

If that’s not enough for you, there’s also Shelley Winters.

There's a couple of rips on YouTube but none with English subs.

from that xpost Sword-and-Sandal wiki--caption of a still, in which she's playing a big stringed instrument, like an ancient tynes bajo sexto, looking attentively at satyr-type, who may be singing to her:

Kirk Douglas and Silvana Mangano in a pause during the shootings of Ulysses (1954) by Mario Camerini

OK, I didn't know Werner Herzog and Eva Mattes were in a relationship had a daughter in 1980.

Doesn’t quite work and no marriage but Nathalie Delon and Chris Blackwell.