This shot comes from Life magazine’s pictorial, “A Night with the Millers,” that supposedly shows what it was like to live with Marilyn Monroe and her third husband, playwright Arthur Miller. The odd couple met in 1951 on the set of As Young As You Feel. The night after they met Monroe wrote in her diary:
Met a man tonight … It was, bam! It was like running into a tree. You know, like a cool drink when you’ve had a fever.
The unlikely couple married in 1956 and were immediately dubbed by the media “the Hourglass and the Egghead,” with one magazine dubbed their union “the most unlikely marriage since the Owl and the Pussycat.” Monroe and Miller only lasted for about five years before they split for being incompatible. Even though the couple’s love was short lived, they remain one of the most fascinating unions of the 20th century.
Photo Op — Marilyn Monroe pouring her husband a drink, 1958
A buff Charles Bronson and his beautiful wife, Jill Ireland — 1971
Pictured here with his second wife, Jill Ireland, Charles Bronson was a serious man’s man. His early life was wracked with poverty. He grew up in coal country and was so broke that he often had to wear his sister’s clothing to school. This not only instilled in him a sense that he needed to work, but it made him tough.
His early acting career was somewhat fruitless, with his big break coming when he was 39 years old and received a role inThe Magnificent Seven. Eight years later, Bronson married Jill Ireland and formed one of the most lasting relationships in Hollywood. The couple co-starred in a series of films together, and often drove to the location with their children to make sure that the family stayed together.
When not on set the couple disappeared to Vermont where Ireland raised horses and trained their daughter, Zuleika, to follow in her footsteps.
Elvis Presley and “soul-mate?” Ann-Margret – ‘Viva Las Vegas’, 1964
After starring in three films together it makes sense that Elvis and Ann-Margret developed some serious chemistry, but he was with Priscilla at the time and didn’t want to break things off. Even though he was in a seemingly star-crossed relationship with his young bride, from the moment he set eyes on Ann on the set of Viva Las Vegas they were seriously into each other.
Throughout the filming of Viva Las Vegas, Elvis and Ann grew closer and closer and became more attracted to one another, at the time they felt like soul mates. Even longtime friend and bodyguard of Presley said that when the two were together they were like a “house fire.”
That being said, The King decided to be a man of his word and broke things off with his co-star, breaking his and her heart in the process.