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1. Jean Harlow and William Powell
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January 1, 2000 |
The Blonde Bombshell meets The Thin Man, a movie partnership which set the screen alight. But was Harlow's tragic early death related to their romance?
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2. Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
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January 1, 2000 |
Theirs was one of the greatest Hollywood romances, a remarkable meeting of opposites. The deep feeling Hepburn and Tracy had for each other is preserved in a series of classic movies in which they co-starred.
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3. Ronald and Nancy Reagan
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January 1, 2000 |
From the B-hive to the White House. Behind Ronnie's easy charm lay Nancy's steely determination. It pushed the future President every step of the way to the most important job in the world.
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4. Gloria Swanson and Joseph Kennedy
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January 1, 2000 |
The clash of huge personalities sent shockwaves through Wall Street and Hollywood. Their torrid romance led to the filming of one of Hollywood's most extraordinary epics - 'Queen Kelly'.
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5. Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland
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January 1, 2000 |
She was one of MGM's most luminous stars. He was one of its most brilliant directors. The union of two flamboyant talents produced a third. Liza Minnelli.
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6. Jimmy and Gloria Stewart
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January 1, 2000 |
One of the legendary love matches in Hollywood history. Stewart was the all-American boy - movie star and war hero - whose marriage reflected the title of one of his best-loved films, 'It's a Wonderful Life'.
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7. Cary Grant and Barbara Hutton
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January 1, 2000 |
Beneath the suavely handsome exterior of one of Hollywood's most desirable leading man lay a deeply troubled soul. The dark side of Cary Grant was to doom a marriage which seemed to have been made in heaven.
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8. James Dean and Pier Angeli
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January 1, 2000 |
James Dean lived fast and died young. The fate of the unhappy Pier Angeli was to live on, but she was never the same after her romance with the ?Rebel Without a Cause'.
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9. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
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January 1, 2000 |
Amiable range warbler Roy Rogers lived by the cowboy code - he never took advantage or slugged anyone smaller than himself. Dale Evans was the B-movie consort who joined noble steed Trigger to make a sagebrush trio.
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10. Rudolph Valentino and Natasha Rambova
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January 1, 2000 |
He was the Great Lover of the Silent Screen, she was the self-created exotic who fashioned his career. Neither partner in this remarkable marriage was quite what he or she seemed.
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11. George Burns and Gracie Allen
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January 1, 2000 |
George and Gracie were two of America's best loved vaudevillians and movie stars who capped dazzling careers by making it big in television. After Gracie's death, the laconic cigar-chomping George becomes an American showbiz institution.
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12. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
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January 1, 2000 |
Like Desi, all of America loved Lucy, the RKO contract player who eventually gained the TV clout to buy the studio where she had started her movie career.
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13. Rex Harrison and Lili Palmer
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January 1, 2000 |
Known to his legion of female fans as 'Sexy Rexy', Harrison married many times, but was rarely happier than during his wartime link up with a beautiful refugee.
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14. Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer
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January 1, 2000 |
Hepburn was a bewitching elfin spirit in Fifties Hollywood, Ferrer the handsome leading man she married and with whom she co-starred in 'War and Peace'.
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15. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow
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January 1, 2000 |
The Dust Bowl bandits whose blood-splattered spree of robbery and murder became a Depression legend and the basis for Arthur Penn's Oscar-winning movie.
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16. Roberto Arias and Margot Fonteyn
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January 1, 2000 |
He was the Panamanian diplomat crippled by a would-be assassin, she was the world's best loved prima-ballerina who formed a legendary partnership with Rudolf Nureyev.
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17. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip
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January 1, 2000 |
From the feted young Royal couple of the forties to the guardians of today's monarchy, Elizabeth and Philip have travelled a long road which is by no means over.
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18. King Hussein and Queen Noor of Jordan
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January 1, 2000 |
One of the greatest survivors in the turbulent politics of the Middle East, received the support he needed from his beautiful third wife.
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19. Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni
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January 1, 2000 |
Two of Europe's most charismatic cinema icons whose affair was one of the most closely guarded secrets of the 1970s.
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20. Howard Hawks and Slim Keith
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January 1, 2000 |
One of the most glamorous couples of the Golden Era of Hollywood - the greatest of studio directors and his shrewd fashion editor wife who brought Lauren Bacall to the attention of her husband Humphrey Bogart.
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21. Charles and Anne Lindbergh
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January 1, 2000 |
He was the most celebrated aviator of the age and she was the daughter of a wealthy diplomat. Their marriage saw flying triumphs and personal tragedy when the kidnapping of their baby led to one of the most sensational murder trials in American legal history.
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22. John Wayne and Marlene Dietrich
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January 1, 2000 |
One of Hollywood's unlikeliest star couples - the Ringo Kid meets Lola - who had a passionate affair in the star-spangled Forties.
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23. Jennifer Jones and David O. Selznick
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January 1, 2000 |
After the unrepeatable triumph of 'Gone With The Wind', master-producer David O. Selznick spent much of his later days in Hollywood promoting the career of his beautiful but neurotic wife.
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24. Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor
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January 1, 2000 |
He was the MGM's longest-serving leading man, she was one of Hollywood's finest actresses and the ultimate film noir icon in ?Double Indemnity'. Together they were dynamic.
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25. Richard and Pat Nixon
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January 1, 2000 |
From the Chequers speech to Richard Nixon's traumatic resignation from the office of President, Pat travelled with her husband every step of the way. Inevitably , there was a price to pay for such loyalty.
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26. Jimmy and Roslyn Carter
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January 1, 2000 |
Reviled by many Americans when Jimmy Carter stepped down from the Presidency, the Carters have become one of the most affectionately regarded couples in American Life.
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