Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1926

Jan 4 Composer Irving Berlin (37) weds heiress Ellin Mackay in a simple civil ceremony

Mar 13 Country singer Maybelle Carter (17) weds Ezra Carter

Jul 10 Cuban president Fulgencio Batista (25) weds Elisa Godínez y Gómez (25)

Aug 13 Comedian Stan Laurel (36) marries 1st wife actress Lois Neilson (30)

Aug 26 Poet Arna Bontemps (24) weds fellow Seventh-Day Adventist Alberta Johnson

Sep 25 Outlaw Bonnie Parker (15) weds Roy Thornton

Sep 29 Canadian-American actress Norma Shearer weds film producer Irving Thalberg

Oct 4 Chemist Irene Joliot-Curie (29) weds physicist Frédéric Joliot (26) in Paris, France

Oct 18 Communist revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh (36) weds midwife Zeng Xueming (21) in Guangzhou

Oct 19 Pathologist Howard Florey (28) weds Ethel Reed at Holy Trinity Church in Paddington, New South Wales

Dec 2 Film director and producer Alfred Hitchcock (27) weds director Alma Reville (27) at Brompton Oratory in London

Dec 5 Gangster Carlo Gambino (24) weds his first cousin Catherine Castellano

Dec 18 Actor George Murphy (24) weds ballroom dancing partner Juliette Henkel