These famous couples’ romances are more inspiring than anything in the movies!
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10. Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen
They met at an audition in 1983, but sparks didn’t fly. A decade later, Ted and Mary became friends on the set of Pontiac Moon and he invited her on a canoe trip. “It was very magical,” he recalls. “We came back in love.” Married since 1995, the pair never spends more than 24 hours apart. “[Our love] just gets more profound and deeper as we go through the blessings and joys, but also the hurdles, of life together,” says Mary. “He is my partner in the deepest sense of the word.”
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9. Prince Rainier III and Grace Kelly
After meeting at a photo shoot in Monaco, Grace and the prince fell in love via handwritten letters. “She truly married for love,” Grace’s friend Joan Dale, who attended their lavish 1956 wedding, said. “Although it was challenging to give up her acting career … her greatest joy and priority in life was to be a loving wife and mother.”
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8. Peter Hermann and Mariska Hargitay
“Who is that Clark Gable, superman guy?” Mariska asked when she spotted Peter on the set of Law & Order: SVU in 2002. They wed two years later when Mariska was 40. “I waited and married the right one,” says the star, who shares three kids with Peter.
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7. Warren Beatty and Annette Bening
Warren’s days as Hollywood’s most legendary bachelor ended after he worked with Annette on 1991’s Bugsy. “I was so elated to meet her, and yet at the same time, I began to mourn the passing of a way of life,” admitted the never-married Warren, who wed Annette in 1992. They have four children together.
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6. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
They wed and divorced twice, but the love between the Cleopatra stars burned eternal. “From those first moments in Rome, we were always madly and powerfully in love,” said Elizabeth, who believed that if Richard hadn’t died in 1984, they might have tried a third time.
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5. Clark Gable and Carole Lombard
They didn’t get along as costars, but a dance together at a 1936 gala changed everything. Carole, who wed Clark three years later, believed that marriage needed to be based on “a calm companionship.” Clark was bereft when she died in a plane crash in 1942.
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4. Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan
“We’ve been married 30-something years, so we’ve got something figured out,” says Michael, who met Tracy on Family Ties and married her in 1988. Together, they raised four kids and stayed strong as Michael battled Parkinson’s. “It was us against the world,” says Tracy. “That’s exactly what we’ve created.”
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3. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
They kissed for the first time on a film set in 1943 — changing the course of both their lives. “No one has ever written a romance better than we lived,” said Lauren, whose 12-year marriage to Bogie ended with his death in 1957. “If I’d had just my career,” she said, “I would have missed out on Bogie, on children, on the very substance of life.”
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2. Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell
Hollywood’s most famous never-married pair have been together since 1983. They share one son, Wyatt Russell, and a happily blended family. “We never got married but one thing that continues to grow is our love,” says Goldie, who calls Kurt “brilliant, lovable, childlike and perfectly maddening.” Kurt repays the compliment. “To [Goldie] I owe my wonderful life,” he gushes. “There’s no one I’d rather be next to.”
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1. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
Over the 50 years of their marriage, Paul and Joanne remained committed to each other and the three daughters they raised outside the spotlight. “It was like a freight train,” daughter Melissa says of the love that survived Paul’s alcoholism and Joanne putting her career on a back burner. “There would be rough times. They would argue. They came close to splitting up several times, but they always came back together … They were best friends.”
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