By that time, Gable had become the biggest male star in Hollywood. At the time, Lombard was married to film star William Powell, so she didn't become romantically involved with Gable until reconnecting with him at a party in 1936. She first met Clark Gable in 1932 when they worked together on the film No Man of Her Own.
Hayworth, whom Welles described as "one of the dearest and sweetest women that ever lived," died two years later.Ĭarole Lombard was a very popular film star, known for her ability to play screwball comedy heroines as well as her down-to-earth manner off-screen. I came over to her table, and I saw that she was very beautiful, very reposed looking, and didn't know me at first. After about four minutes of speaking, I could see that she realized who I was, and she began to cry quietly.
When Welles went up to her at a party, it took her several minutes to recognize her former husband, the one she had called the "great love" of her life. As he later recalled: She was finally diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 1981. But Hayworth's was significantly more troubled she married and divorced several more times and battled mental health problems and alcoholism. The money issues were so bad that even though she had left him, Hayworth agreed to star in Welles's film The Lady from Shanghai. She moved back in with him, but the reconciliation was brief the couple divorced in November 1947.īoth Welles and Hayworth had chaotic lives after their split. The couple had a daughter in December 1944, but the marriage soon fell apart over, among other things, Welles's infidelity, his workaholic tendencies, and both his and Hayworth's financial troubles. I never saw a happier, more tickled, more delighted, adorable couple in the world. In If This Was Happiness, Barbara Leaming's biography of Hayworth, Shifra Haran told the author: Although Hayworth's studio head was angry over the marriage, the press ate it up, dubbing Hayworth and Welles "the Beauty and the Brain." Hayworth was in the midst of filming Cover Girl when she and Welles eloped, marrying in Las Vegas on September 7, 1943. The insecure Hayworth, who had been seen as little more than a money-making machine by both her father and husband, appreciated the fact that Welles, who also experienced a rough upbringing, listened to her and tried to understand her. Hayworth - who was in the midst of divorcing her much older, controlling, first husband - turned Welles down multiple times when he phoned to ask her out. Welles was in the midst of working on The Magnificent Ambersons when he stumbled upon a magazine photo of Hayworth, who at the time was one of the top pinup girls for American soldiers as well as an up-and-coming actress. But he was also a bit of an outcast in Hollywood, thought of as too demanding and difficult to work with. Orson Welles, meanwhile, was regarded as a wunderkind - he was just 22 when he and John Houseman founded the stage company Mercury Theatre, and 24 when he signed a lucrative two-picture deal to write, direct, produce, and act in two films for RKO those pictures turned out to be Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons - both of which are widely considered to be two of the greatest films in Hollywood history. The beautiful Rita Hayworth was one of Hollywood's most glamorous stars in the 1940s. Photo: 20th Century Fox / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain But during Hollywood's "Golden Age," people turned to magazines like Photoplay and scandal rags like Confidential (which NPR called "the National Enquirer of the 1950s") to get the scoop on famous couples like Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, William Powell and Jean Harlow, or Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall - stories like some of the ones found below. In the 21st century, a lot of information about the lives of the rich and/or famous (or infamous) is found and shared on social media. But the fans didn't seem to care they just wanted to learn about the stars' lives - what were they like? The Pickford-Fairbanks romance was considered scandalous, as both stars were married when they first became involved in fact, the state of Nevada tried to claim that Pickford's divorce from first husband Owen Moore was invalid. The first true Hollywood power couple was probably Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, who were mobbed by the media and fans alike on their honeymoon in 1920. Since the very early days of Hollywood, fans and the press have been obsessed with following the lives of the stars.
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