Favorite Golden Era Couples

[rue]

We have threads for favorite males and favorite females, so how about couples?

(looked but couldn't find a similar thread)


Two of mine....

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks

George Burns and Gracie Allen

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Not!

 

[rue]

hehehehehe.........

 

[dhermann1]

Julius and Ethel: Ouch.
Favorite favorite favorite: Nick and Nora.
Other favorites: Eleanor and Franklin
Gable and Lombard
Bogie and Bacall
Fred and Ginger
Across the pond: Duff Gordon and Diana Manners
Winston and Clemmie

 

[LizzieMaine]

Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa
Jane and Goodman Ace
Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly (oh wait, that's a different thread...)

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Not so favorite...


William Desmond Taylor & lots of women

Rudolph Valentino & "Natacha Rambova" (Winifred Shaughnessy)

Roscoe Arbuckle & Virginia Rappe

Charles Chaplin & Lita Grey

Betty Boop & Bimbo The Dog (perilously close to bestial)

Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz (lots of fighting over his infidelities)

 

[rue]

dhermann1...... Quite a few of those are my favorites too, especially Nick and Nora

Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly (oh wait, that's a different thread...)

lol

Not so favorite...

lol
No, favorites, eh?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

No, favorites, eh?

Au contraire. My favorite couple is Aimee Semple McPherson & Kenneth Ormiston.

 

[rue]

I have a stinking suspicion that you're kidding.....


Another favorite:

Tyrone Power and Loretta Young

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Without a doubt, these two:

 

[hatophile]

Hope and Crosby
Abbot and Costello
Laurel and Hardy

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Charlie McCarthy & W.C.Fields.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Rudy Vallee and Fay Webb. Best divorce case ever.

 

[dhermann1]

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Rudy Vallee and Fay Webb. Best divorce case ever.

Yes!

Mary Astor & George S. Kaufman. Best (never-published) diary entries ever.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Edward "Daddy" Browning and Frances "Peaches" Heenan.

Peggy Hopkins Joyce and everybody.

 

[rue]

Benjamin Siegel and Virginia Hill

 

[Tomasso]

Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne

I would have loved to have been their house guest at Ten Chimneys.

 

[jamespowers]

Geez, nobody mentioned Bogey and Bacall yet?:eusa_doh:

The nexus of the real rat pack.

 

[Travis Lee Johnston]

Charley Floyd and wife Ruby.