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1. Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood
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January 1, 2001 |
Two of the most handsome stars of the 1950s who fell in, out and in love again. Their nine-year second marriage was tragically cut short by a boating accident.
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2. John Lennon and Yoko Ono
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January 1, 2001 |
He was an icon of popular music; she was one of the most flamboyant performance artists of the Sixties. Behind the controversy they left in their wake, theirs was an extraordinary and enduring marriage.
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3. Paul and Linda McCartney
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January 1, 2001 |
In the world of rock and showbiz, few marriages proved more happy and creative, until her premature death saddened millions of fans.
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4. Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay
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January 1, 2001 |
The romance between the massively-cantilevered star and her champion muscleman was one of the most oddball stories of Hollywood.
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5. Claire Bloom and Rod Steiger
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January 1, 2001 |
Claire Bloom shot to fame as a beautiful but paralysed young girl in 'Limelight'. Her marriage to one of the greatest method actors of his generation lasted through a turbulent decade.
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6. Gilda Radner and Gene Wilder
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January 1, 2001 |
When two of Hollywood's zaniest comic talents were married, it seemed like the start of a great movie partnership, but cancer claimed Gilda after five short years.
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7. John and Bo Derek
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January 1, 2001 |
John Derek was one of the most handsome leading men of the Fifties but never became a major star, perhaps because he was always in the shadow of his first wife, Ursula Andress. But in the early 1980s, as a director and producer, he made a star of his third.
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8. JFK Junior and Carolyn Bessette
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January 1, 2001 |
The ill-starred Kennedy family suffered another in a long line of tragedies when an air crash ended the seemingly glamorous marriage between JFK's heir and his beautiful PR girl wife.
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9. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
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January 1, 2001 |
Their enduring marriage is an antidote to cynics who claim that genuine romance cannot flourish in Tinseltown.
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10. Shirley Temple and Charles Black
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January 1, 2001 |
Since 1950, former child star and diplomat Shirley Temple has been married to businessman Charles Black. In contrast to most child stars who prove unable to grow up, her adult life has been crammed with achievements.
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11. Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland
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January 1, 2001 |
He was one of cinema's greatest action heroes, who waited thirty years to achieve stardom. He was happily married to British-born actress Jill Ireland until her death after a long battle with cancer.
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12. Dorothy Dandridge and Otto Preminger
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January 1, 2001 |
He was the 'director from hell' who turned the fiery nightclub entertainer into a star in 'Carmen Jones'. Their romance was passionate, stormy - and doomed.
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13. William Friedkin and Jeanne Moreau
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January 1, 2001 |
Star director William Friedkin made more than one French connection, his romance with one of Europe's greatest leading ladies was the talk of Tinseltown.
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14. Henry and Shirlee Fonda
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January 1, 2001 |
Hollywood patriarch Henry Fonda was five times married and often at odds with his equally stellar children. But his romance with Shirlee proved in a rock in a stormy private life.
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15. Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
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January 1, 2001 |
In the early Fifties it was hard to decide who was prettier - dashing Tony Curtis, hero of countless Universal adventures, or his beautiful wife. She loyally supported him by subordinating her career to his and providing him with a famous daughter.
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16. Fernando Lamas and Esther Williams
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January 1, 2001 |
The romance between Latin lover Fernando and the million-dollar mermaid Esther Williams has recently been richly chronicled in her best-selling autobiography.
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17. Betty Grable and Harry James
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January 1, 2001 |
She had the million-dollar legs and he was the man with the golden trumpet. Theirs was one of the most long-lived of Hollywood's marriages.
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18. Oleg Cassini and Gene Tierney
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January 1, 2001 |
When one of the most beautiful leading ladies from Hollywood's heyday married the doyen of New York fashion, a glittering future beckoned. But then their hopes of happiness were dashed by the birth of a severely retarded daughter.
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19. Candice Bergen and Louis Malle
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January 1, 2001 |
Her career began as 'sister' to the world's most famous dummy, and blossomed as model, actress and photojournalist. Her marriage to one of France's leading directors who also established himself in Hollywood was cut short by his premature death.
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20. Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville
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January 1, 2001 |
Alfred Hitchcock remains an enduring figure of fascination for movie buffs and his marriage to fellow Briton Alma Reville gives an intriguing insight into the master director's character.
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21. Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester
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January 1, 2001 |
Theirs was one of the most touching and adult relationships in Hollywood, which survived the tortured emotional life of one of Britain's greatest actors.
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22. Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev
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January 1, 2001 |
The world was genuinely moved when the former Soviet first lady died of leukaemia. Raisa had stood by her husband's side throughout an extraordinary career which changed the face of world politics.
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23. Dashiel Hammett and Lillian Hellman
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January 1, 2001 |
One of the most fascinating romances between two of America's greatest literary rebels.
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24. Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Joan Crawford
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January 1, 2001 |
He was a Hollywood prince; she was a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who clawed her way to the top, like the heroine of so many of her movies.
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25. John Huston and Evelyn Keyes
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January 1, 2001 |
Huston was one of Hollywood's greatest directors and libertines - but he met his match in feisty Evelyn Keyes.
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26. Gary Merrill and Bette Davies
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January 1, 2001 |
For a brief period, Gary Merrill basked in the shadow cast by one of Hollywood's greatest divas. The tensions this caused inevitably doomed the marriage.
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