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15 Factoids of Love excerpted from Movieline's July 2000 Love Issue feature, "100 Factoids of Love." by Leigh Niles Celebrity courting and mating behavior makes for lively Hollywood love stories, though the endings are sometimes less than happy. After six hours had passed on their honeymoon, Jean Acker locked Rudolph Valentino out of their bridal suite; though the marriage was never consummated, Acker called herself "Mrs. Rudolph Valentino" for the rest of her life. After knowing him for only five days, Pamela Anderson married Tommy Lee in a bikini on a beach in Mexico in 1995. While they were both in third grade, Drew Barrymore and Stephen Dorff fell in puppy love. Julia Roberts went barefoot when she walked down the aisle with Lyle Lovett. Hugh Grant deliberately took a part in the 1987 movie Rowing with the Wind because he had a secret crush on Elizabeth Hurley, who'd already been cast. (Grant and Hurley pictured on the set of Extreme Measures.) |
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Cybill Shepherd, who starred with Bruce Willis on TV's "Moonlighting," says she can personally attest to the fact that Demi Moore taught Willis how to kiss. Forties movie star Esther Williams broke off her engagement to actor Jeff Chandler when he appeared before her in a red wig, chiffon dress and high heels, revealing that he was a cross-dresser. Michelle Pfeiffer and husband David E. Kelley met on a blind date at a bowling alley; each brought a friend and they barely exchanged a word. David Spade revealed on "The Howard Stern Radio Show" that he didn't know his girlfriend Lara Flynn Boyle was cheating on him with Jack Nicholson until he read about it in The National Enquirer. Brendan Fraser popped the question to Afton Smith by taking a self-timed Polaroid of the two of them on a bridge in Paris; as the photo developed, it revealed that Fraser had secretly opened his jacket to display a note reading "Marry Me." (Fraser pictured with costar from the film Mrs. Winterbourne.) |
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At age 14, Melanie Griffith fell in love and started living with 22-year-old Don Johnson, who was costarring with Griffith's mother, Tippi Hedren, in The Harrad Experiment. After Marilyn Monroe's death, former husband and baseball great Joe DiMaggio had fresh flowers brought to her graveside every week for the next three-and-a-half decades. A Columbia studio boss had Gilda star Rita Hayworth's dressing room bugged to keep tabs on her after she promised to stop having sex with costar Glenn Ford during breaks. Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow were married for two years in the late '60s when he was 50 and she was 21. Gillian Anderson married her now-ex-husband Clyde Klotz on a golf course in Hawaii in 1994, in a ceremony performed by a Buddhist priest. (Anderson pictured in a scene from Playing by Heart.) |