Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner got arrested on a date!
A Hollywood marriage isn't for the faint of heart. Actors often have attractive costars pretending to be in love with them for the camera or adoring fans swooning at their feet. So, when you hear about your favorite actor having an affair, the reaction is often.
This certainly isn't a new phenomenon — it's a tale as old as Tinseltown itself.with newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, who was 34 years older and married to Millicent Willson. Marion and William had a 35-year-long affair because legal divorce didn't feel like an option to him.Marion off to Hearst Castle in California. The new couple became known for their star-studded parties. William already had five sons with Millicent, but three years into the affair, he and Marion welcomed a daughter named Patricia. He also helped Marion build her Hollywood career by financing many of her films and founding production companies. However, the financial support wasn't one-sided. In the '30s, she gave him a million dollars to save his business. In return for her generosity, he reportedly left her the company in his will after his death in 1951.,"I would do anything in the world to avoid hurting the boys . After all, they’re half of W.R. I'm not the fighting type, but I don't believe in disregarding W.R.'s wishes. He had a reason for having the agreement drawn up. He thought I was the one who understood best what his policies and principles were and that I could see to it that his ideas were carried out... Gosh, I thought I'd have a peaceful time in my old age . Now look at the spot I'm in!", while aboard his yacht in 1924, William — believing Charlie Chaplin was having an affair with Marion — allegedly tried to shoot Charlie but hit film mogul Thomas H. Ince instead. The incident was allegedly witnessed by Louella Parsons, a famous gossip columnist, who traded her silence for a lifelong contract. At the time, reports said Thomas died from acute indigestion, but the legend persists. It inspired the 2001 moviea child, and she gave birth to their son a few short days before her divorce was finalized.The affair caused such a scandal that Congress got involved. Criticizing the studio for using the affair to promote the film, Senator Edwin C. Johnsonfor a licensing requirement for actors and filmmakers, with the caveat that licenses could be revoked for perceived"immoral" behavior. Of course, his proposal never made it out of the gate.an apology to her into the Congressional Record, calling her"one of the world's loveliest, most gracious, and most talented women the victim of bitter attack in this chamber 22 years ago." She'd"never forgotten" Senator Johnson's tirade, and the apology came as a"complete surprise.", driving the final nail into producer Walter Wanger's financial coffin. Over the next few years, he declared bankruptcy, leaving his wife, actor Joan Bennett, as the main breadwinner. However, in 1951, he became suspicious that she was cheating on him with her agent, Jennings Lang.Like many a scorned spouse, Walter hired a private investigator to tail Joan and Jennings. When the PI discovered the alleged couple was spending time together in Beverly Hills, New Orleans, and the Caribbean, Walter decided to take matters into his own hands. He found Joan's green Cadillac parked outside Jennings's agency then drove around, waiting and armed. In, author Matthew Bernstein wrote,"There was a violent argument between the two men, with Bennett yelling, 'Get away from here and leave us alone.' Wanger, she said, was 'standing there like a man hypnotized.' Though Lang held up his hands, Wanger was implacable; he fired two shots in Lang's general direction. One went astray against the car; the other struck Lang in the groin, and he collapsed in agony to the ground."on the spot, but he hired a powerful attorney, pleaded temporary insanity, and got off with only a four-month prison sentence. He went on to revitalize his career with films like. Unfortunately, the incident had greater consequences for Joan's career, which never quite bounced back. What's more, there was no affair to begin with! Joan and Jennings had been meeting to talk about a new show. She told the,"But if Walter thinks the relationships between Mr. Lang and myself are romantic or anything but strictly business, he is wrong."Marlene Dietrich was married to Rudolf Sieber for 53 years, but at some point in her career, her affair with, director Henry Hathaway recalled,"They would appear in public together at Hollywood nightspots, and she even went with him to football games and prizefights. And she took a great interest in his career and later took much of the credit for making him the star he became."Marlene because they suspected she might be a Nazi sympathiser . While the FBI didn't find what they were looking for, they uncovered her affair.to painter Abram Poole, but she had many affairs with famous women. In 1931, acting coach Salka Viertel introduced her to Greta Garbo, who fell in love with her. Mercedes and Greta's relationship unfolded at a lakeside cabin in the High Sierras, where they swam and fished.with Salka, who was in an open marriage with Berthold Viertel. As the months passed, Salka's feelings for Greta faded, but they stayed friends. After Salka's rejection, Greta slept with Mercedes, who became obsessed with her. A few months later, Greta went to New York just to get away from her, but when she came back to Hollywood, Mercedes had moved into a house near hers. Mercedes also spent a ton of money on Greta, including having a gate she needed on her property built overnight. Their relationship didn't end until 1960, when Mercedes published vague details of their affair and a topless picture of Greta in the High Sierras in her memoir.Mercedes and Abram divorced in 1930 so he could marry his mistress, though he continued to bankroll her life for years.Mercedes de Acosta also had an affair with Greta Garbo's biggest rival, Marlene Dietrich . Theyfirst crossed paths in 1932, when Mercedes watched Marlene's dance recital. They exchanged passionate letters. In one, Marlene wrote,"I kiss your beautiful hands and your heart— forever, M."forgave Mercedes for having a relationship with her rival because of her views on free love, which didn't allow for jealousy.Louise Treadwell in 1923, and the couple later separated but didn't divorce because of his Catholic faith. However, he began a relationship with costarto great lengths to hide their relationship. They lived separately and rarely went out in public together. She described him as"tortured," as he dealt with mental health issues and alcoholism. In the late '60s, his health declined, so she stepped back from acting to be his caretaker. She reportedly said,"I liked to wait on him, listen to him, feed him, work for him. I tried not to disturb him… I was happy to do this."once drunkenly hit her but didn't remember it the next day. Though Katharine was with Spencer when he died, she didn't go to his funeralshe felt it would be disrespectful to Louise and their children, and she didn't even talk about the relationship publicly until Louise's death in 1983.Smokey Robinson claimed that, during his marriage to his first wife, singer Claudette Rogers, he had a year-long affair with,"We were working together, and it just happened. But it was beautiful. She's a beautiful lady, and I love her right till today. She's one of my closest people. She was young and trying to get her career together. I was trying to help her. I brought her to Motown, in fact. I wasn't going after her, and she wasn't going after me. It just happened.""After we'd been seeing each other for a while, Diana said to me she couldn't do that because she knew Claudette, and she knew I still loved my wife. And I did. I loved my wife very much," he said.began as an affair while he was still married to Nancy Barbato. In 1949, they were at a party in Palm Springs. Both drunk, they decided to leave and drive to Indio. They made out, then Frank pulled out a pair of guns. He shot out street lamps, and she shot a hardware store window. Police caught them and hauled them down to the station, but the studio paid them off.tied the knot a mere 72 hours after his divorce from Nancy was finalized. However, Frank and Ava ultimately divorced in 1957, though they stayed friends until she died in 1990.had an affair with her costar Fred MacMurray, who was married to Lillian Lamont. She balked at the double standard that men permitted men to have multiple partners, but not women, and she was open-minded toward extramarital affairs., Rene Jordan, Ava's housekeeper, said,"She didn't object to secret adultery, but when a guy was two-timing a sick wife, she objected to that — strongly."on frequent double dates with Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. Elizabeth and Debbie had been friends since high school. Mike and Elizabeth had only been married for a year when a plane crash took his life in 1958. Shortly after, she moved on with Eddie.costar Frank Sinatra advised her against exchanging vows with Eddie in the first place. She said,"He said, 'Don't marry Eddie.' He said I shouldn't get married to a singer. 'We're not faithful. It's ridiculous for you to take this on.' I said, 'Why? I don't think that I will listen to you — I really think he's adorable.' My mother thought he was adorable."said,"I divorced Debbie and married Elizabeth the day I finished my run at the Tropicana... It was a typical two-rabbi Jewish ceremony. As usual, Elizabeth was late for her own wedding... We were married under the chuppah, a canopy, and as is traditional, at the end of the ceremony, I stomped on a wineglass."However, Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher didn't find a happily ever after. She famously had an affair with costar Richard Burton on the set of 1963'ssaid,"The first day on the set, he was hungover and very vulnerable, and his hands were shaking. He asked me to hold a coffee cup up to his lips, and I was gone.", Elizabeth's son, Christopher Wilding, said,"My mother was still married to Eddie Fisher. I think she was unhappy. It wasn't a normal situation, and at that time, her attitude was, 'Fuck it. I'm going to do it my way, and if you don't like it, too bad.'""so obvious." Richard and Sybil divorced in 1963, and Elizabeth and Eddie divorced the following year. The new couple were famously married twice — their first marriage lasted from 1964 to 1974, and their second lasted from 1975 to 1976., she wrote,"Elizabeth fell in love with ... Richard Burton, and I warned Eddie that she'd kick him out in a year and a half — and that's exactly what happened, which gave me at least a little comfort... He's not a strong enough personality for Elizabeth, who preferred her men to be, well, Richard Burton.". I sent a note to her, and she sent a note to me in passing, and then we had dinner together. She was married to Richard Burton by then. I had been remarried at that point. And we just said, 'Let's call it a day.' And we got smashed. And we had a great evening and stayed friends since then."Elia Kazan reportedly admitted to having an affair with Marilyn Monroe while he was married to his first wife, Molly Day Thacher. In a 1955 letter to Molly , he wrote,"The reason I can't write you about what I’m ashamed of is because I'm ashamed of it. I'm ashamed I hurt you ever. On the other hand I resent being made to feel guilty and low and... Her boy friend, or 'keeper' had just died. His family had not allowed her to see the body, or allowed her into the house, where she had been living. She had sneaked in one night and been thrown out. I met her on Harmon Jones' set. Harmon thought her a ridiculous person and was fashionably scornful of her. I found her, when I was introduced, in tears."He continued,"I took her to dinner because she seemed like such a touching pathetic waif. She sobbed all thru dinner. I wasn't 'interested in her;' that came later. I got to know her in time and introduced her to Arthur Miller, who also was very taken by her. You couldn't help being touched. She was talented, funny, vulnerable, helpless in awful pain, with no hope, and some worth and not a liar, not vicious, not catty, and with a history of orphanism that was killing to hear. She was like all Charlie Chaplin's heroines in one.""I'm not ashamed at all, not a damn bit, of having been attracted to her. She is nothing like what she appears to be now, or even appears to have turned into now. She was a little stray cat when I knew her. I got a lot out of her just as you do from any human experience where anyone is revealed to you and you affect anyone in any way. I guess I gave her a lot of hope. She is not a big sex pot as advertised. At least not in my experience. I don't know if there are such as 'advertised' big sex pots. She told me a lot about and her, his Catholicism, and his viciousness . I was touched and fascinated. It was the type of experience that I do not understand and I enjoyed hearing about it," he wrote.He continued,"I'm not sorry about it. I love you and only want to help you. I'm awful sorry I hurt you. I am human though. It might happen again. I hope not, and I have resisted quite some other opportunities. No loss. I got a lot out of this one; can't say I didn't. I think I helped her."Elia went on to write that he'd understand if Molly wanted a divorce, but he'd get remarried and have more kids. However, they stayed together until her death in 1963.costar Cary Grant was married to actor Betsy Drake at the time, but the two had an emotional affair on set.Cary frequently took Sophia out to dinner, and he even asked her to marry him. However, she ultimately chose Carlo. She told the,"They were very different men. It was difficult. I was doing my first American-language film, and my American language was so very terrible; I was upset. Many times I needed help with the language, and Cary would help me. Cary belonged to another world in America. I felt that I would never fit in there. I would never have a future there because of my nationality. I was scared to change completely in life without knowing if this relationship or quasi relationship was going on.""The picture finished. We exchanged numbers, and he said he would call. In fact, he did come onto the set of , and then when I was doing a picture in New York, he came to the house. I was together with Carlo and already had my son. One day, he called me in New York, where I was for another film. 'How are you?' 'I'm fine,' I said. 'Why are you calling?' And he said, 'Because I wanted to say ciao.' That was it. He died. He must have known he was dying," she said.. After filming wrapped, he sent her yellow roses. As she and Carlo flew out, she bragged about the flowers because she was"young and thought if he got angry and jealous it meant he loved ." In jealous anger, Carlo hit her. She said,"Yes, he did. Very softly. Let's not exaggerate it. But that's what made me feel okay. That made me feel I'd made the right choice.", Gloria Swanson claimed that, during her marriage to her third husband, Henry de La Falaise , she had a three-year affair with Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., who was married to Rose Fitzgerald. Around 1927, Gloria and Josephmet to talk business, and she signed over the power of attorney for her business affairs. Their affair began in early 1928.Henry as the director of his holdings in Pathé Studios in Europe. He also produced a few of Gloria's movies, including, which led to them traveling to Europe together with their spouses to attend the premieres. While aboard an anchored sailboat in Hyannis Port, Joseph and Gloria were allegedly caught in a tryst by a 12-year-old JFK, who then had to be rescued after jumping out of the boat to get back to shore.Joseph about an expenditure she'd noticed from her personal account over dinner. That was seemingly his final straw, and he ghosted her, leaving Hollywood altogether. In the aftermath, she reportedly found out that he'd used her money to pay for gifts he'd lavished on her.Lord Larry: A Personal Portrait of Laurence Olivier , Laurence said,"I couldn't help myself with Vivien. No man could. I hated myself for cheating on Jill, but then I had cheated before, but this was something different. This wasn't just out of lust. This was love that I really didn't ask for but was drawn into.", which brought her to LA. However, he was working in NYC, so the letters continued. Laurence and Vivien both divorced their respective spouses in 1940, losing custody of their children in the process. They got married the same year and went on to star in several movies and a Broadway production ofa step back from acting as her bipolar symptoms impeded her work, but Laurence's career was on the up, leading to a knighthood in 1947. The following year, to fundraise for the theater, the couple embarked on a six-month tour across Australia and New Zealand. However, her mood swings led to arguments, and in Christchurch, she couldn't find her shoes, so she wouldn't go onstage. In front of other people, Laurence slapped her across the face. She hit him back, borrowed a pair of shoes, and hit the stage. As the years progressed, her mental health struggles worsened. She also had an affair with hercostar Peter Finch, which she later confessed to her husband, as well as a second miscarriage. They divorced in 1960.Vivien considered the marriage over two years before it officially ended. In 1958, she entered a relationship with John Merivale, and Laurence started an affair with actor Joan Plowright. After the divorce, Vivien found new success onscreen and onstage. She remained with John until her death in 1967.If you or someone you know is in immediate danger as a result of domestic violence, call 911. For anonymous, confidential help, you can call the 24/7is an association of mental health professionals from more than 25 countries who support efforts to reduce harm in therapy.
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