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