Love Stories

The romances, marriages and heartbreaks of Hollywood's golden era.

9 stories
Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe together in 1954Love Stories

Joe DiMaggio Sent Marilyn Roses Three Times a Week for 20 Years

Their marriage lasted nine months. His devotion lasted the rest of his life.

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Young Dolly Parton in an early publicity photoLove Stories

Dolly Parton Met the Love of Her Life Outside a Laundromat

On her first day in Nashville, a young man in a truck waved hello. They were married for nearly 60 years.

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Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in 1965Love Stories

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton Couldn't Live Together, or Apart. So They Married Twice

A scandal on the set of Cleopatra became Hollywood's most famous on-again, off-again romance.

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Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III on their wedding day in 1956Love Stories

Grace Kelly Gave Up Hollywood to Become a Real-Life Princess

She had an Oscar and three Hitchcock hits. Then she met a prince at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner in 1951Love Stories

Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner: The Love Affair That Inspired His Saddest Songs

Their marriage was explosive and short. Friends said he never fully got over her.

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Johnny Cash and June CarterLove Stories

Johnny Cash Proposed to June Carter in Front of a Concert Crowd

She turned him down many times. In 1968, onstage in Canada, she finally said yes.

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Clark Gable and Carole Lombard in 1939Love Stories

Clark Gable Joined the War After Losing Carole Lombard

Hollywood's golden couple had less than three years together.

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Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not, 1944Love Stories

Bogart and Bacall Fell in Love on Their First Movie Together

She was 19. He was 44. One famous line about whistling started it all.

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Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in 1958Love Stories

Paul Newman's Salad Dressing Has Given Away Hundreds of Millions

It started as a Christmas gift. His marriage to Joanne Woodward lasted 50 years.

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