It is a very funny thing. The rich and famous lead lives that seem to preclude the sort of 'introspection' that you and I might have.
They seem to divorce, split up the kids, re-marry and enter same-sex relationships in a consequence-free environment. Liz here married eight times! What hadn't she learnt by marriage no. 4? Or what did Artie Shaw think about his 8th marriage - this one's a keeper?
... or the fakafka Gabor sisters for that matter; between them 20 marriages!! Two of them to the same man! Christmas must been a bit tense....
Magda:
Quote:1937-1946 - Jan de Bichovsky, RAF pilot, said to have been a Polish count.
1946-1947 - William Rankin
1949-1950 - Sidney R. Warren
1956-1967 - Tony Gallucci
1970-1971 - George Sanders, British actor [and Zsa Zsa's ex-husband]
1972-1973 - Tibor Heltai (Last Husband)
Zsa Zsa
Quote:Burhan Asaf Belge (1937 " 1941) (divorced)
Conrad Hilton (April 10, 1942 " 1947) (divorced)
George Sanders (April 2, 1949 " April 2, 1954) (divorced)
Herbert Hutner (November 5, 1962 " March 3, 1966) (divorced)
Joshua S. Cosden, Jr. (March 9, 1966 " October 18, 1967) (divorced)
Jack Ryan (January 21, 1975 " August 24, 1976) (divorced)
Michael O'Hara (August 27, 1976 " 1982) (divorced)
Felipe de Alba (April 13, 1983 " April 14, 1983) (annulled)
Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt (August 14, 1986 to present)
Eva
Quote:1939-1942: Eric Drimmer, a Swedish physician
1943-1950: Charles Isaacs
1956-1956: John Williams, an American physician
1959-1972: Richard Brown
1973-1983: Frank Gard Jameson
@Mr Stillwater,
I read in a Vanity Fair article years ago that Zsa Zsa got into an elevator in New York and the gentleman on the elevator greeted her warmly with a smile. She looked at him cooly and asked "Do I know you?" He replied "You should. I was your fourth husband."
@eoe,
Quote:I was your fourth husband
..and your brother-in-law...
If you remove the obvious items like polygamy (and polyandry, sauce for the goose!!) amongst folks whose religion is OK with it, the actors and actresses seem to be very comfortable with multiple marriages. There is the 'Hollywood Marriage";
Quote:the term has grown to also have strong connotations of a marriage that is of short duration and quickly ends in separation or divorce
I think Liz must have pioneered it....
@Mr Stillwater,
Don't forget Mickey Rooney.
8 of em - neck to neck with Liz and one of the Gabors.
Still, they could have made it nine!!!
National Velvet, 1944
@Mr Stillwater,
Thay must have had very active social lives
I was amazed to find a young Liz singing in one of the old movies on TV. Liz can sing quite well. In the Audrey Hepburn's biography it was mentioned that Eddie Fisher was a great fan of Audrey's. Everyone sought the role for Eliza Doolittle in 'My Fair Lady' including our beautiful Liz who was married to Eddie at the time. Eddie had a stake in the movie and a say in selecting the star. He loved Audrey and picked her over Liz. Needless to say Liz was shattered as she had never been second fiddle to anyone. Maybe that explains Eddie's rude awakening with Richard Burton taking over the bedroom.
@talk72000,
Possibly. She could have also been a bit of a tramp, too. I don't think it was her 'acting ability' that managed to get Richie into her bed....
I also just checked out the thread. Zsa x 2 was married like, for one night! April 13 to April 14! Like I said, they live in a very different world!
@Mr Stillwater,
I think at the time she was starring as 'Cleopatra' with Richard Burton as Mark Anthony and Rex Harrison as Julius Caesar. It bombed in the box office and almost drove 20th Century Fox into bankruptcy. 'The Sound of Music' with Julie Andrews as Maria on Trapp, the Broadway's 'My Fair Lady - Eliza Doolittle' , saved Fox which after Marvin(?) Davis ownership was acquired by Rupert Murdoch. Liz came back to star in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' with Richard Burton. She was the Queen of Hollywood as all the gossip magazines had her on their covers at all times.
You are choosing the "moment" on the basis of your sensitivities. What about when she clarmed? An everyday occurence I hope.
Sweet Wings of Alice Springs!!
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Is this the end, folks?
In my opinion, the "Hollywood marriage" merry-go-round is a) giving publicity to the movie studios that produced many pictures, and b) prevents those of a religious bent to say they will not go to a movie because the hero/heroine is sleeping with someone without the benefit of marriage.
In other words, the consecutive marriages is hard to criticize, I believe, if one remembers that there are also people that "just cheat."
@Mr Stillwater,
Bit of a tramp? she married everyone she had an inclination for.
Geez. big sinkhole in our understanding of people.
@ossobuco,
Alright - she's probably not a 'tramp' - but she wasn't a 'serial monogomist' either. How is it that these folk star in movies where the affirm love and monogamy (even the healing power of marriage, I do so love 'The Taming of the Shrew' with Liz hurling abuse at Richard even as they are both falling through three stories of a house) - and at the same time we see them making out like rabbits!! And they seem to shed children all over the place... that's actually the bit that upsets me the most.
@ossobuco,
You have a good point there Osso.
Mr. Stillwater can you name who she had affairs with in addition to those she was married to
@Sglass,
I remember reading an interview many years ago where she stated that she didn't believe in just living with someone. She believed in marriage.
There was something rather honorable about that. Imagine if she'd lived with all of these different guys but never married them. Now THAT, in my book, is a tramp.
@eoe,
Back in the day, a whole lot of people got married because they had sex or very much wanted to. Probably more women than men married for that reason. Contraception was not widely accepted in many locales, nor abortion. Plus there was much teaching about sex being only permissible in marriage. (Does this, er, sound familiar? ) How much any of this was true re certain stars of a certain era, I've no idea.
