Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1946

Jan 17 Actor John Wayne (38) weds actress Esperanza Baur in Long Beach, California

Feb 10 1st black pro-baseball player Jackie Robinson marries Rachel Isum

Feb 18 MLB baseball player Hank Greenberg (35) weds heiress Caral Gimbel in Sea Island, Georgia

Mar 14 American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway marries Mary Welsh

Mar 30 Actress Doris Day (23) weds saxophonist George Weidler

May 2 "Rebecca" actress Joan Fontaine (28) weds producer and actor William Dozier (38)

May 6 Comedian Stan Laurel (55) marries for the 5th time actress Ida Kitaeva (47)

Jul 7 39th US President Jimmy Carter (21) weds Rosalynn Smith (18) in Plains, Georgia

Jul 24 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Howard Hanson (49) weds Margaret Elizabeth Nelson at the Chautauqua Institution in New York

Aug 10 Playwright Moss Hart (41) weds singer and actress Kitty Carlisle (35)

Aug 16 Famous ballet choreographer George Balanchine (42) weds ballerina Maria Tallchief (21)

Aug 26 "Gone with the Wind" actress Olivia de Havilland weds screenwriter and novelist Marcus Goodrich

Dec 11 "Bill Haley & His Comets" rock 'n' roll musician Bill Haley (21) weds Dorothy Crowe

Dec 26 Actor Jackie Coogan (32) weds Ann McCormack (22)

Aug 8 Esta Krakower divorces mobster Bugsy Siegel (40) after 17 years of marriage