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

I wouldn't count Martin Scorsese and Isabella Rossellini since I believe this is relatively well-known but I certainly would count:
Jeanne Moreau and William Friedkin

As well as Wim Wenders and Ronee Blakley.

And today's big find, Beth Howland and Michael J. Pollard.

I'll have to wrack my brain a bit--I come across these all the time in various books and documentaries.

Paulette Goddard and--wait for it--Burgess Meredith.

Oh, and PJ Soles & Dennis Quaid.

Great one! I'd sell my soul for a couple of years with late-'70s P.J.

Paulette Goddard and--wait for it--Burgess Meredith.

I just recalled walking by the Bobby Van Steakhouse the other day. I almost tried to figure out how to add him and his widow to this thread or spin off a new one but then I remembered and checked that she remarried, so
Elaine Joyce and Neil Simon

(Screenwriters welcome)

The new thread would be called something like Celebrity Couples of the 70s Known Mainly For Appearing on Game Shows

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Now seen 12 times a day on Buzzr.

Paulette Goddard had the Tramp, the Penguin, and the Pacifist

Ha. Just watched an entire episode of Tattletales with Bobby and Elaine along with Orson Bean and Alejandro Rey and their wives, neither of which I was familiar with.

A lot of the '70s Match Game regulars had surprising spouses at one time or another:

Brett Somers => Jack Klugman
Joyce Bulifant => James McArthur ("Dano" of Hawaii Five-O)
Richard Dawson => Diana Dors

Oh yeah, Dawson & Dors is a great one.

I've known for a long time but initially was surprised that Burt Reynolds was married to Judy Carne of Laugh-In

These are all great, thanks!

Knew Klugman/Somers, had forgotten Reynolds/Carne, rest all new to me. Had being trying hard to remember Joyce Bulifant at all, but kept getting interference from Joyce Van Patten. Who, it turns out, was married to Martin Balsam for five years. As a bonus for this thread, this union produced a daughter, Talia Balsam, who was married to George Clooney for four years.

...and who is currently married to John Slattery, whom also played her ex-husband on Mad Men.

More Match Game:
Mary Ann Mobley => Gary Collins

God is she annoying on Match Game or any other game show

Haven't watch one with her in ages. Does she make goo-goo eyes at Gene or something?

It's the combination of her dumb, ill-considered answers with the fact that she's clearly so full of herself. Dim and haughty and yeah, goo-goo eyes at everybody.

Caught her on Tattletales the other day and she bitched about not hearing a question because her rooting section was too noisy. Missing the question allowed another celeb to win the game, and at the end of the show she announced that she was going to "file a protest." So a sore loser as well

B-b-but... oh wait

Lol at description of Mobley/Collins as the "Brangelina of the '70s"

Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan.

Don't think I knew that either. Believe they were neighbors later when she was married to Leland Hayward.

RIP Tattletales regular Dick Gautier.

Not both actors - you could argue neither were - but the one that always surprises me is George Lazenby and Pam Shriver.

Nicky Henson and Una Stubbs

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Jack Klugman and Brett Somers had that thing some couples have where they kinda look like they could be brother and sister.

Indeed.

Tbh, trying to remember who Dick Gautier's actress wife was at the time of Tattletales and what I would have seen her on.

Barbara Stuart. You probably knew her from her role as "Bunny" in Gomer Pyle: USMC

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

Because Beth Howland. And Valerie Harper + Richard Schaal, which I didn't know about until after posting.

I don't know how old-time this is, but Alan Pakula and Hope Lange.

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^a perfect addition

RIP Jeanne Moreau

had a romance w/ Lee Marvin!

And Peter Handke, apparently.

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Not a director but a writer: Hugu Claus and Sylvia Kristel
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HugO, sorry

Cliff Robertson & Dina Merrill

Dave Vanian and Patricia Morrisson!

Bricolage
Decoupage

Ha! Meant to post ^^ in the “I always get those two mixed up” thread.

Lol

Not that obscure, but Rip Torn and Geraldine Page

Albert Finney & Anouk Aimee

Talk about punching above your weight.

James Stacy then married and divorced Kim Darby.

I feel like I should have known that Judy Garland was married to David Rose, the composer of "The Stripper". Rose married her two months after divorcing Martha Raye - one of Martha Raye's SEVEN husbands!

Not that famous and no director, but actress Sally Ann Howes and composer Richard Adler.

Gary Lockwood, one of the two astronauts from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Stefanie Powers.

Gary Lockwood also memorably played opposite Sally Kellerman on the second *Star Trek TOS* pilot, third episode aired,
"Where No Man Has Gone Before."

I read an interview with him once that suggested he was quite the p****hound in his day. He’s still with us at 87, as is Stefanie Powers at 82. Just watched a 1985 miniseries called Deceptions in which Stefanie plays two twin sisters who switch identities (one is called Stephanie). Ludicrous story but excellent work.

Good to know she's still around, having some fun, I hope. TV Guide used to run all this stuff about her and Holden having adventures in the wild, and was thinking he was also involved with a screenwriter or producer? No, though wiki sez that Stanwyck was something of a mentor early on, coaching him when they co-starred in Golden Boy--- and apparently long-time friends-only? Anyway, also from Wiki:

Holden had a daughter born in 1937 from his relationship with actress Eva May Hoffman.[43]

Holden was married to actress Brenda Marshall from 1941 until their divorce in 1971.[4] They had two sons, Peter and Scott.[44][45]

Holden met French actress Capucine in the early 1960s. The two starred in the films The Lion (1962) and The 7th Dawn (1964). They reportedly began a two-year affair, which is alleged to have ended due to Holden's alcoholism.[46] Capucine and Holden remained friends until his death in 1981.

In 1972, Holden began a nine-year relationship with actress Stefanie Powers and sparked her interest in animal welfare.[47] After his death, Powers set up the William Holden Wildlife Foundation at Holden's Mount Kenya Game Ranch.[48]

...His death was noted by singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, whose 1987 song "Tom's Diner", about a sequence of events one morning in 1981, included a mention of reading a newspaper article about "an actor who had died while he was drinking". Vega subsequently confirmed that this was a reference to Holden.[53]

xxxxpost Libby Titus also wrote "Love Has No Pride" w Eric Justin Kaz, making her mark in music history, in history.

!!! Didn’t know that about “Tom’s Diner”

Stefanie Powers still lives part-time in Kenya today.

Also, oddly enough, I just watched a 1986 miniseries featuring Capucine… Sins, starring Joan Collins. Kind of a mix of “Scruples” and “Lace.”

Holden always or consistently enough had a macho poster child quality, like in Golden Boy he was the violin prodigy of humble origins, coaxed into boxing, and offscreen xpost coached by Stanwyck, whom he reportedly always looked up to.
Sunset Boulevard places him as homeless writer taken in by the Hollywood Gothic star crone (not meant as a put-down, thinking ov crone power in olde tales), in Picnic he shows up at the fest all sporty trying a bit too hard (younger characters: "Who is this geezer ahole?")
Had the impression from xpost TV Guide coverage of safaris etc. that Powers went from being good sport to necessarily managing things, maybe like Mary Hemingway w increasingly damaged Ernest, not that Holden ever seemed as assholy as Hem could, but in both cases, vulnerability went with the talent, was part of the territory).
So yeah, ""an actor who had died while he was drinking,"" to the tune of "Tom's Diner" and voice of Vega, fits right in.

It's not old-timey, but I was skimming an article about the Lonely Planet's new sketch (with Charli XCX) and Andy Samberg credited some of the impetus to his wife of ten years... Joanna Newsom!

zp speaking of Sunset Boulvevard, here's Erich Von Stroheim, highly acclaimed Silent Age director whose high;y expensive screen gems got him relegated to acting-only, but he was acclaimed for that as well, fairly often along with

Denise Vernac (née Denise Yvonne Eveillard;[2] 3 June 1916 – 31 October 1984), was a French film actress. She appeared in seventeen films, between 1939 and 1966.[1]

Additionally, Vernac was the secretary and romantic companion of Erich von Stroheim, an Austrian-American actor, film director and producer, and screenwriter.[3][4][5]

Some of their films:

The Mask of Diijon is a 1946 American black-and-white horror noir suspense film...
Diijon, a tired magician, gives up his act to study the power of the mind. His wife Victoria, once supportive, now is struggling to pay bills. She urges her stubborn and older husband to return to the magic field where Diijon was considered one of the greats. He refuses but does reluctantly agree to do a hypnotism nightclub act at Victoria's urging. The act goes bad and he's laughed off the stage. He's convinced this is the handiwork of Victoria's ex-lover Tony Holliday. Later, Diijon finds that he does indeed have the power to control men's minds and begins to take revenge on the people he felt made him look like a fool. He hypnotizes his young wife to kill the man. Unfortunately for Diijon, things go horribly wrong.

The opening of the film features a memorable scene depicting a woman being beheaded, with a guillotine—then revealed to be a magic trick.

That's Not the Way to Die (French: On ne meurt pas comme ça!) is a 1946 French mystery crime film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Erich von Stroheim, Anne-Marie Blanc and Denise Vernac.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Aimé Bazin. It borrows its main plot device from the 1932 American film The Death Kiss.[1] von Stroheim was not happy with the film, but felt it received good reviews and was popular with audiences.[1]
Synopsis
At a film studios while shooting a scene in which a man is killed, director Eric von Berg angrily calls cuts and rebukes the actor and shouts "That's Not the Way to Die". However, the actor soon turns out to be really dead, murdered by somebody present.

The Dance of Death (French: La danse de mort, Italian: La prigioniera dell'isola), is a 1948 French-Italian drama film directed by Marcel Cravenne and starring Erich von Stroheim, Denise Vernac and Palau.[1] It is based on August Strindberg's The Dance of Death...
An egocentric artillery Captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress off the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice, a former actress who sacrificed her career for secluded military life with Edgar, reveals on the occasion of their 25th wedding anniversary, the veritable hell their marriage has been. Edgar, an aging schizophrenic who refuses to acknowledge his severe illness, struggles to sustain his ferocity and arrogance with an animal disregard for other people. Sensing that Alice, together with her cousin and would-be lover, Kurt, may ally against him, retaliates with vicious force. Alice lures Kurt into the illusion of sharing a passionate assignation and recruits him in a plot to destroy Edgar.

The Red Signal is a 1949 French drama film directed by Ernst Neubach and starring Erich von Stroheim, Denise Vernac and Frank Villard.[1]...In a small Austrian town, physician Mathias Berthold is haunted by the memory of his wife who died in a train accident. Under psychological strain he hears his wife's voice commanding him to "stop the train". In a trance-like state he attempts to sabotage the railway tracks...

A new one:

Billy Crudup & Naomi Watts

Suzanne Pleshette and Troy Donahue! For about nine months in the early sixties.

Third hus was:

In 2001, Pleshette married fellow actor Tom Poston, who had been a recurring guest star on The Bob Newhart Show in the 1970s and a Newhart cast member. Long before they worked together on television, though, Poston and Pleshette had been involved romantically in 1959, when they acted together in the Broadway comedy Golden Fleecing.[8][15] During the subsequent 40 years, they married others, but remained friends. After they were both widowed, the deaths of their spouses brought Poston and Pleshette together again, and they married in 2001. They remained married until his death from respiratory failure in Los Angeles on April 30, 2007

...Pleshette’s last public appearance was with the Bob Newhart Show cast at The Bob Newhart Show 35th Anniversary Reunion at PaleyLive LA, held on September 5, 2007 at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills.[44][45][46][47] She died January 19, 2008.[48][49][50]

Gallagher, Pleshette, and Poston are all interred[51][52] close to each other in the Jewish Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery.[53]

to whom she was married from March 16, 1968, to his death on January 21, 2000.

Oh yeah, and after Troy (after the goldie rush?)*

She dated actors Dean Stockwell and David Janssen.[36][37]

Joesefa's mention of Pete Kelly's Blues , starring actor-director-producer Jack Webb as a a bandleader/crime magnet, over on ILM's Peggy Lee Is The Bomb (because Peggy's singin' in it), reminds me:

Webb's personal life was better defined by his love of jazz than his interest in police work. He had a collection of more than 6,000 jazz recordings.[3] Webb's own recordings reached cult status, including his deadpan delivery of "Try A Little Tenderness".[30] His lifelong interest in the cornet allowed him to move easily in the jazz culture, where he met singer and actress Julie London.

She was the subject of a 1957 Life cover article in which she was quoted as saying "It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate."[25]

Should I know about Whoopi Goldberg and Frank Langella?

Connie Francis and Bobby Darin deserve a mention, although her father refused to let them marry

Tony Shaloub & Brooke Adams have been married for over 30 years.

I discovered that a couple years ago. What's weird about them that, while Adams had never retired from acting, all of her best-known roles are from before Shalhoub even became famous. So she seems like she should be much older than him, but she's only four years older.

Agnes Varda's first hub was actor-director Antoine Bourseiller, who was in her '62 film Cléo from 5 to 7, about a young pop singer (played by Corinne Marchand) waiting for biopsy results. Don't see much about his other acting, but he filmed his interview w Jean Genet, which I'd like to see.
Varda's main marital gig was with Jacques Demy, whose biggest hit was The Umbrellas of Cherbourg , where they sing all the dialogue and shit, but I much preferred The Bay of Angels, with Jeanne Moreau as badass gambler Jackie, too much woman for her sawdust husband/leading man, actor's name being Claude Something, who cares.

Jackie pops up again in Demy's The Model Shop, & steals the husband of gamblin' Lola, from the Demy film of the same name, played again by xpost Anouk Aimee. Shot in El Lay, it's one of those the-Sixties-are-dying flicks, but with Moreau *and* Aimee!

Moreau's character just gets talked about in Model Shop, she herself doesn't actually appear on screen.

That Demy cycle is really interesting in how he threaded the characters through the films: Lola reunites with her American baby daddy and emigrates to the states, breaking her French boyfriend's heart->He becomes a diamond dealer and marries the pregnant Deneuve, separated by war from her lover->We find out Lola gets dumped offscreen for Moreau and is reduced to working at the Model Shop.

Bummed no actual Moreau, that's what comes of trusting the written word. Did see her rock Bay of Angels.

Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who played Dempsey and Makepeace, have been married to each other since 1989.

Brandon lived with actress Kim Novak for 18 months in 1973–74.[7] Brandon was married to actress Lindsay Wagner from 1976 to 1979.[2]

Paramount producer Robert Evans and actress Catherine Oxenberg (31 years his junior). Married for nine days in 1998 before getting it annulled.

Not quite a fit but:
Actress Antoinette Bower, who appeared on the "Catspaw" episode of Star Trek: TOS, was once married to a Pop artist named James Francis Gill.

Well if we can include Pop artists, how about rebel writers:
Maugerite Duras' first hub, Robert Anteime, worked for Vichy by day, Resistance by night, was sent on death march to Dachau, barely rescued by Mitterand, nursed by Duras, who then wrote a book about and divorced him. A public intellectual, He later supported Algeria in war w France---likewise the second Monsieur Duras, Dionys Mascolo, who also became a leading Anti-Gaullist, even before De Gaulle became President.

wiki keeps claiming both (legally serial) hubs had a marriage a trois with Duras before the divorce and her switch of hosses, anyway they apparently did found a Resistance cell or summat w D.

I dunno if she actually divorced and/or wrote a book about Dionys, but much later, having problems w alcohol and drugs (was in a coma for several months) wiki:

In parallel with her health issues during the 1980s, Duras began a relationship with Yann Andréa, a homosexual actor.[15] Yann Andréa helped Duras through her health difficulties. Duras would detail these interactions and companionship in her final book, Yann Andréa Steiner.[19]

Ted Kotcheff - director of First Blood, Wake In Fright, Weekend at Bernie's etc. - was married to Sylvia Kay, who played Penny's mum in Just Good Friends.

Probably why she was in Wake In Fright!

Jill Ireland was married to David McCallum before she was married to Charles Bronson.

That was a new one on me.

Gary Lockwood and Stephanie Powers, from 1966-1972

#onethread

Jack Jones & Jill St. John

Speaking of 2001 astronauts, I just saw the 1965 film Who Killed Teddy Bear in which Sal Mineo plays a sexual deviant and someone named Margot Bennett plays his mentally disabled sister... and I got curious about Margot Bennett, so looked her up and it turns out she was Keir Dullea's first wife in the '60s and Malcom McDowell's first wife in the '70s. (And she's still alive at 90).

What did you think of it? Was there a Q&A?

I liked it! Maybe some pacing problems in the last third, but it goes to some interesting places and flirts with some provocative/uncomfortable ideas. The location shots are a major plus.

It was directed by Phoebe Cates' dad!

(No Q&A at my screening).

Yeah, I know.

Another member of their family lives very close to me.

Huh.

This is probably for another thread, but it also seems like a very early film to clearly show a discotheque DJ in action, using the two turntables. I wonder what films might predate it in that regard. Juliet Prowse is the DJ.

Not a surprise to us, obvs., but perhaps to someone else: Kevin Kline & Phoebe Cates have been married for 36 years.

Diahann Carroll:

Sidney Poiter, partner, 1959-1968
David Frost, partner, 1970-1973
Vic Damone, married, 1987-1996

Plus three other marriages.

Also I'd forgotten that Lynne Frederick married David Frost a few months after Peter Sellers died.

I was today years old when I learned that Barbet Schroeder and Bulle Ogier have been married for 34 years

Heh, that one I was well aware of.

Mel Tormé & Janette Scott... the surprising part of that union being that Thora Hird was therefore Mel Tormé's mother-in-law!

Not married just dating but Jay Sebring and Barbara Luna.