Famous Weddings
Paul Dirac
Jan 2 Theoretical Physicist Paul Dirac (34) weds Margit Wigner
Nat King Cole
Jan 27 Musician Nat King Cole (17) weds dancer Nadine Robinson in Ypsilanti, Michigan
Mary Astor
Feb 18 Actress Mary Astor (30) weds film editor Manuel del Campo (23) in Yuma, Arizona
D. W. Griffith
Mar 2 Film director D. W. Griffith (61) weds actress Evelyn Baldwin (26)
Douglas MacArthur
Apr 30 General Douglas MacArthur (57) marries 2nd wife Jean Faircloth
Wedding of Interest
Jun 3 Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) weds Mrs Wallis Simpson in France
- Jun 7 Three Stooges member Curly Howard (33) weds Elaine Ackerman
Mary Pickford
Jun 26 Canadian-American silent film actress Mary Pickford (45) weds American actor and band leader Charles Rogers (32)
Ingrid Bergman
Jul 10 Actress Ingrid Bergman (21) weds dentist Petter Aron Lindström
- Jul 11 Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas (22) marries dancer Caitlin McNamara (22) in Penzance, Cornwall
Jacques Cousteau
Jul 12 Explorer Jacques Cousteau (27) weds scuba diver Simone Melchior (18) at Saint-Louis-des-Invalides in Paris
Muriel Spark
Sep 3 Author Muriel Spark (19) weds teacher Sidney Oswald Spark in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia
John Kenneth Galbraith
Sep 17 Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (29) weds author Catherine Atwater (24) at the Reformed Church of North Hempstead in New York
- Oct 5 Two-time Oscar winner actor Anthony Quinn (22) weds actress Katherine de Mille (26)
Wedding of Interest
Nov 20 Actor Jackie Coogan (23) weds actress Betty Grable (20) at St. Brendan Catholic Church in Los Angeles
Famous Divorces
- Sep 28 Martha Raye (21) divorces Hamilton "Bud" Westmore (19) on the basis of extreme cruelty
Walter Lippmann
Dec 9 Writer Walter Lippmann (48) divorces first wife Faye Albertson after 20 years of marriage
