Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart “No one has ever written a romance better than we lived,” wrote actress Lauren Bacall in her 1985 memoir. She was 19 on the set of To Have and Have Not when Bogie, then 45 and married, asked her to write her number down on the back of a matchbox. They were married for 12 years before Bogie’s death and together made four films and had two children. Sonny & Cher They got you, babe. Cher often talked about their complicated and troubled relationship as the duo rode to the top of pop stardom together in the ’60s and ’70s. They found success with The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, but by 1975 their relationship had fizzled and the two divorced. For Cher, the beat went on. Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz One part flirtatious Cuban, one part charismatic redhead, Lucy and Desi’s 20-year love story— peppered with alcohol abuse and infidelity—ended not long after they filmed the final episode of I Love Lucy. The pair remained friends and, as Desi wrote in a letter at the end of his life, “P.S. I Love Lucy was never just the title.” Natalie Wood & Robert Wagner West Side Story’s Maria tied the knot with actor Robert Wagner in 1957. The two split after a little more than four years, then remarried in ’72, nine years before Wood’s tragic and mysterious drowning death. Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman Though Academy Award winners first met in New York in 1953, their relationship ignited on the set of 1958’s The Long Hot Summer. They maintained privacy and fidelity throughout their 50 years together—“I have steak at home, so why should I go out for a hamburger?” he famously quipped. Ellen DeGeneres & Portia de Rossi It was love at first sight when de Rossi met Ellen at a party in 2000, while de Rossi was starring on Ally McBeal and DeGeneres was in-between talk shows. They started dating a few years later and tied the knot in 2008, the year same-sex marriage was first legalized in California. In 2016, de Rossi was a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and gifted her wife a gorilla sanctuary for her 60th birthday. Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson The Hollywood greats began dating when Melanie was only 14—that’s 17 years before her Oscar-nominated performance in Working Girl. The pair’s first marriage lasted less than a year, filled with romance, parties and substance abuse. Their second, from ’89 to ’96, produced daughter Dakota Johnson. Nicole Kidman & Tom Cruise Pre-TomKat and the Oprah couch-jumping days, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were the epitome of ’90s Hollywood glam. The Eyes Wide Shut co-stars met during Kidman’s Days of Thunder audition, married in 1990 and kept a steady, in-the-spotlight relationship during some of their most pivotal films. Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson Hanks and Wilson worked alongside each other in on the set of 1985’s Volunteers, and the sparks couldn’t be denied. They married in ’88, and a few years following his second (consecutive) Oscar win, Hanks told Oprah Winfrey, “We have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother.” Thirty years later, the two are still giving us relationship goals. Jada Pinkett Smith & Will Smith After not getting the role of Will’s girlfriend on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Jada struck up a friendship with the show’s star, and they were married in 1997. What followed has been two decades (and counting) of sometimes eye-popping ’90s fashion choices, two children (Jaden and Willow), creative collaborations and a commitment to being “life-long partners”—divorce is not an option. Ali MacGraw & Steve McQueen The Thomas Crown Affair heartthrob found his equal in The Getaway co-star Ali MacGraw, whom he married in 1973. The actress has called their epic romance, which ended in ’78, “chemical.” “This was a man who could walk into any room, and [any] man, woman and child would go, ‘Whoa, what’s that?’ And I was no exception,” she told People. Farrah Fawcett & Lee Majors The Charlie’s Angels bombshell went from unknown to superstar with the flip of her mane, and all during her nine-year marriage to actor Lee Majors. Their relationship ended with 30 months of divorce proceedings and money wrangling. Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton Dame Elizabeth Taylor dazzled generations of filmgoers—and seven husbands, one of whom was Richard Burton. The two met while filming Cleopatra in 1962, married in ’64, divorced in ’74 and remarried again in ’75 before calling it quits for good. A rollercoaster, sure, but always an interesting one. Katharine Hepburn & Spencer Tracy More like a legendary love affair, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy weren’t married (Tracy, Catholic, never divorced his wife), but their blinding love was something of true old-Hollywood sweethearts. Their on-screen chemistry was undeniable and a reason they shared the big screen nine times over the course of their 25-year relationship. He died only a few weeks after filming their final movie together, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, the important film for which she won an Oscar but never watched…because it was his last. Beyoncé & Jay-Z Married since 2008, Mr. and Mrs. Carter have been the image of #CoupleGoals since they appeared together in the music video for “Crazy in Love” from Beyonce’s first solo album, Dangerously in Love,in 2003. They’ve since given us hits “Deja Vu,” “Upgrade You” and “Drunk in Love,” all while raising their three adorable children and being the most stylish couple on Instagram. Ava Gardner & Frank Sinatra There was just something about this relationship that transfixed Hollywood—the actress’s smoldering beauty, Sinatra’s bigger-than-life persona, a wild affair, a fiery marriage, publicized feuds and photographers who pursued them around the globe. They were married from 1951 to ’57, but it’s said that the two never fully moved on. According to the Ava Gardner Museum, Sinatra sent yellow roses every year on her birthday, with a note that read “With my love, Francis.” She kept them on her mantel until next year’s bouquet came. Janet Leigh & Tony Curtis Self-described by Tony as “Hollywood’s golden couple,” the pair (whose daughter is Jamie Lee Curtis) starred alongside each other in several films, including Houdini and Who Was That Lady? Drawing the shimmering flashes of the paparazzi throughout their relationship, the golden couple stayed married for more than 10 years, divorcing in 1962. Demi Moore & Bruce Willis Bruce Willis and Demi Moore had a 13-year-long relationship that began with a Vegas wedding and lasted through the first three Die Hards. Since their divorce in 2000, the two have remained friends and co-parents to their three daughters, Rumor, Tallulah and Scout. Next, 15 Long-Lasting Celebrity Marriages
