Roy Rogers met Dale Evans in 1944 when she was cast in a movie along with
Roy. Following the death of his second wife ,Grace Arline, Rogers and Evans
soon fell in love, and Rogers proposed to her during a rodeo at Chicago
Stadium. They married on New Year’s Eve in 1947 at the Flying L Ranch in
Davis, Oklahoma, where a few months earlier they had filmed Home in
Oklahoma. Rogers and Evans remained married until Rogers’s death
in 1998.
Roy and Dale in 1995
Â
Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki Budinger (above) were married on “The Tonight
Show” with Johnny Carson. It attracted 45 million viewers and was, at the
time, the shows biggest audience ever. Â
Tiny Tim (born Herbert Khaury), (April 12, 1932 – November 30, 1996)
Bobby Darin and 18-year-old actress Sandra Dee met while making the film Come
September (released in 1961) together. They soon fell in love and were married on
December 1, 1960. The couple had one son, Dodd Mitchell Darin (also known as
Morgan Mitchell Darin). Sandra and Bobby later divorced in 1967.
Socialite Jacqueline Bouvier and then-U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy began
dating soon after meeting at a dinner party organized by mutual friends in
May of 1952. The couples engagement was officially announced on June 25,
1953. They were married on September 12, 1953, at St. Mary’s Church in
Newport, Rhode Island by Boston’s Archbishop Richard Cushing. There were
an estimated 700 guests in attendance and 1,200 attended the reception
that followed at Hammersmith Farm is a Victorian mansion that was the
childhood home of Jacqueline. The newlyweds honeymooned in Acapulco,
Mexico before settling into their new home in McLean, Virginia.
