Following your favorite Hollywood couples via social media is still a relatively new hobby, but do you have a favorite Hollywood couple to start with? Yes, this is not new. For decades, celebrity couples made headlines and raced fans’ hearts, and the seventies were a particularly fun decade for celebrity love. But, over time, some of the often short-lived romances have been lost to history. Read on to find out 14 celebrity couples you may have forgotten about dating in the ’70s. Some of these opposites attract relationships will definitely surprise you.
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in the late seventies, Diana Ross Kissing Frontman Jane Simmons I started dating after Share– who Simmons was seeing at the time – introduced them. Sparks flew, and there was no arguing with Simmons’ ex-husband, who told him people In 1980 “I turned into our biggest fan”. Ross and Simmons’ relationship lasted for two years. Simmons will continue to marry Shannon Tweed In 2011, while Ross was getting married Arne Nass Junioralthough they divorced in 2000.
In 2015, Simmons said woman that ross’ kept [him] employment [his] toes,” adding, “I loved that she was a strong, confident woman in her own skin.”
After the meeting on the filming site Smokey and bandits In 1977, Sally Field And Burt Reynolds dated on and off until 1982. But although the late Reynolds wrote in his memoirs, but enough about meit was this realm who ran away, Field clearly didn’t agree.
“He was somehow invented to rethink everything I was more important to him than he thought, but I wasn’t,” she said. diverse in 2022. “He just wanted to get the thing he didn’t have. I didn’t want to deal with that.”
Before she starred as a love interest in the 1981 movie redsAnd Diane Keaton And Warren Beatty They had an off-screen romance of their own. Although it didn’t last, Keaton didn’t hesitate to sing the praises of her ex, as she did in a 2016 interview with diverse.
“It makes you feel like you’re the only one, the important person, that you’re so charming, you know?” She said. “He’s with everyone, across the board. He just has this presence.”
The feeling certainly seems to be mutual. In the same year, Betty Keaton described to People (via Yahoo!) as “a blend of integrity, humor, intelligence, fairness, and did I say beauty? A great comedic sense.”
Talk about a collaboration between two show business legends. Bernadette Peters And Steve Martin He met in 1977 and started dating before starring This bastard Together in 1979. By 1982, they had called things off. We don’t know why it didn’t work for sure, but in 1987, Peters would say Johnny Carson She is still not ready for marriage.
Dating Martin gives Peters a different view of the comedian than many of his fans.
“He can be wild and crazy, but he’s basically a very serious guy,” Peters said. Watchman in 2019.
Oprah Winfrey Mid-seventies relationship with musician and TV personality John Tish It was so low it didn’t appear until decades later. After publishing an unauthorized biography of Winfrey that claimed Tesh ended things due to “social pressure” over an interracial relationship, he made a statement confirming that they once dated.
He said, “Oprah and I have been cub reporters in Nashville for nearly 40 years and have dated for a little while. We even talked about it during one of my appearances on her show. We’re still friends to this day.” Entertainment tonightvia us weekly.
In the early seventies, Barbra Streisand date Pierre Trudeau—Former Prime Minister of Canada, father of the current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Their relationship did not last, although it is known that Praised her ex-son on Twitter. After the elder Trudeau’s death in 2000, Streisand contributed her memories of him to the book Pierre.
“Pierre Trudeau was a wonderful balance of contrasts,” she said. “He was an elegant, special and generous man who was also a charming bohemian. It all flowed through him naturally. He was always ahead of his time.”
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Clint Eastwood And Sondra Lock She started dating in the mid-’70s and made several films together, but it all ended badly in the late ’80s. to me The Hollywood ReporterIn 1989, Locke sued Eastwood for alimony, and returned to him with another lawsuit in 1995 for fraud, claiming that the actor prevented her from having a career of her own. Like Los Angeles Times According to the report, the former couple managed to reach a financial settlement in 1996.
In 1970, Jane Fonda And Donald Sutherland They had an affair while they were filmed Cloth together or together. But although there was a passion for both activism and co-working, things deteriorated when they coexisted in Tokyo in the early 1970s, Fonda said. Watchman in 2008.
We met shortly before work Cloth Then we were together until the relationship exploded and fell apart in Tokyo. “It broke my heart,” she said. I was so sad. It was a great relationship up until the point where we lived together.”
Farah Fawcett And Lee Majors They were two of the biggest stars of the ’70s, starring as Fawcett Charlie’s Angels and specializations in The Six Million Dollar Man. The TV actors were introduced to each other by his publicist, and they were married from 1973 to 1982. Majors said People In 2019, their busy schedules were to blame for the split.
He said of Fawcett, who died in 2009: “There was a year or so when I think I saw her two weeks in one year. It’s very difficult in jobs like this. This work is hard. Working 14 hours a day both of you, and the days go by.”
The public was not aware of many details about Jack Nicholson Short affair with singer Michelle Phillips Mamas and Papas. As I mentioned FifthAnte GalleryThey met when I auditioned for his movie in 1971 rape– Part you didn’t get. after her marriage to Dennis Hooper It only lasted a week, and Phillips ended up with Nicholson. But that romance was short, too.
“Dear Jack,” Phillips told the magazine in 2007. “He was a likable guy: charming, kind, and fun to be with.”
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the actor Linda Evans and the director John Derek They were married from 1968 to 1974, when their relationship ended in scandal. leave it for Bo Derek, then Mary Kathleen Collins, who was only 16 years old. Bo . said woman In 2020 it’s still hanging [her] Heart ‘it contributed to the breakup of the marriage, but Evans said People In 2021 she doesn’t think she would have enjoyed the profession she did if not for their divorce.
“If I had stayed married to John, who didn’t want me to work, I wouldn’t have done it. DynastyShe said about her ex-husband. “I would never have known all the magic that followed that show or that experience, which, to me completely, is one of the most beautiful things anyone can hope to experience in their life.”
Another of Barbra Streisand’s high-profile relationships in the 1970s was with the actor Elliot Gold. They met while auditioning for a play in the 1960s and were married from 1963 to 1971, and welcomed a son, Jason, in 1966. CBS Sunday Morning In 2020, Gould revealed that Streisand asked him why they were apart while she was writing her memoirs.
“The answer to that is that we haven’t grown together and the reason for that is because it has become more important than us,” he said. Then I said to her, ‘We did a great job. We made it too fast and nobody had ours. There you and I and our son. “”
Music legends Carly Simon And James Taylor She married in 1972 after meeting her a year earlier at her performance at Carnegie Hall. They had two children together, Sally And The son ofbefore their divorce in 1983.
“I love him, and I think he’s brilliantly charming and talented. And after all, how could I not love him, because he’s the father of my children,” Simon told Salon in 2015. “I think some people can do that, but they have a better ability than me to turn off all my feelings.”
the actor Jessica Lange And a ballerina Mikhail Baryshnikov They were together in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Although they have never married, they have a daughter, Shura, together. It was the beginning of the end when he met Lang Sam Shepardwho was with her until 2009 and died in 2017. Leaving the past in the past, Lange and Baryshnikov did not talk much publicly about their past relationship.
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