Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1937

Jan 2 Theoretical Physicist Paul Dirac (34) weds Margit Wigner

Jan 27 Musician Nat King Cole (17) weds dancer Nadine Robinson in Ypsilanti, Michigan

Feb 18 Actress Mary Astor (30) weds film editor Manuel del Campo (23) in Yuma, Arizona

Mar 2 Film director D. W. Griffith (61) weds actress Evelyn Baldwin (26)

Apr 30 General Douglas MacArthur (57) marries 2nd wife Jean Faircloth

Jun 3 Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) weds Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson in France

Jun 26 Actress Mary Pickford (45) weds actor and band leader Charles Rogers (32)

Jul 10 Actress Ingrid Bergman (21) weds dentist Petter Aron Lindström

Jul 12 Explorer Jacques Cousteau (27) weds scuba diver Simone Melchior (18) at Saint-Louis-des-Invalides in Paris

Sep 3 Author Muriel Spark (19) weds teacher Sidney Oswald Spark in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia

Sep 17 Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (29) weds author Catherine Atwater (24) at the Reformed Church of North Hempstead in New York

Nov 20 Actor Jackie Coogan (23) weds actress Betty Grable (20) at St. Brendan Catholic Church in Los Angeles

Dec 9 Writer Walter Lippmann (48) divorces first wife Faye Albertson after 20 years of marriage