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Here's What 40 Hollywood Legends Looked Like on Their Wedding Day

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May 2, 2021 at 10:47 AM

Here's What 40 Hollywood Legends Looked Like on Their Wedding Day

1921: Buster Keaton won't drop his famous deadpan gaze on his wedding day

1933: John Wayne saddles up with his first bride

1934: Rising star Ginger Rogers marries actor Lew Ayres in his prime

1937: Ingrid Bergman wears a fantastic headdress in her first wedding

1940: Ronald Reagan had another wife and life before his presidency

1942: Barely legal Norma Jean marries the boy next-door before she becomes Marilyn Monroe

1943: Orson Welles whisks Rita Hayworth off to the marriage license desk

1945: Humphrey Bogart nabs babe Lauren Bacall on the set of her first movie

1945: Bette Davis and her third husband lock arms in a champagne toast

1945: Judy Garland takes the director of "Meet Me in St. Louis" for her second husband

1945: Teenaged Shirley Temple marries an Air Force sergeant in wartime

1949: Angela Lansbury's second husband lasts a lifetime

1951: Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner smoosh faces for the camera

1954: Audrey Hepburn holds the hand of her first husband, Mel Ferrer

1955: Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher's drama takes the cake

1955: Joan Crawford ditches actors and marries a business tycoon

1955: Rock Hudson's short, one-and-only marriage before he comes out 30 years later

1956: On-screen angel Grace Kelly becomes a real princess

1957: Henry Fonda flies to Italy for 'War and Peace' and snags a bride

1957: Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner begin and end their married life with each other

1958: Paul Newman turns his on-screen romance into a lifelong real love

1957: Marlon Brando's first marriage doesn't last long

1959: Julie Andrews weds her childhood sweetheart

1959: Brigitte Bardot marries the only man she had a child with

1964: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton marry (for the first time)

1965: Young Catherine Deneuve makes a husband of a lothario

1967: Raquel Welch weds her producer in a short crochet dress

1967: Jane Fonda snags a husband who has a penchant for famous blondes

1967: Elvis weds a woman who was 14 years old (10 years his junior) when they first met

1974: Rather than find her IRL Clyde, Faye Dunaway finds that love stinks

1986: Arnold Schwarzenegger puts a ring on it after nearly a decade-long courtship

1986: Diana Ross won't stop in the name of love

1987: Vanessa Williams marries the man hired to salvage her career in the wake of scandal

1988: Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks commence one of the longest-running Hollywood marriages

1992: Anjelica Huston finds love with an artist after 17 years with Jack Nicholson

1993: Mariah Carey struts down the steps after her first wedding

1998: Before Kate Winlset met "Jack" on the Titanic, she met Jim

2001: J.Lo two-steps with her choreographer in her second marriage

2002: Liza Minnelli goes all out for her fourth wedding

2006: TomKat becomes official after a whirlwind romance

Here's What 40 Hollywood Legends Looked Like on Their Wedding Day

Hollywood has produced some of the greatest love stories of all time — and not just the ones on-screen, although many of them certainly started that way. From romances that burned hot but fizzled out quickly to rare everlasting matrimonies, and even two couples who married each other twice, Hollywood has no shortage of lovestruck stars.

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See what stars like Angela Lansbury and Audrey Hepburn wore down the aisle.

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