Great Romances of the 20th Century

- Season 3

(2000)

Two of the most handsome stars of the 1950s who fell in, out and in love again. Their nine-year second marriage was tragically cut short by a boating accident.

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The romance between the massively-cantilevered star and her champion muscleman was one of the most oddball stories of Hollywood.

Claire Bloom shot to fame as a beautiful but paralysed young girl in 'Limelight'. Her marriage to one of the greatest method actors of his generation lasted through a turbulent decade.

When two of Hollywood's zaniest comic talents were married, it seemed like the start of a great movie partnership, but cancer claimed Gilda after five short years.

John Derek was one of the most handsome leading men of the Fifties but never became a major star, perhaps because he was always in the shadow of his first wife, Ursula Andress. But in the early 1980s, as a director and producer, he made a star of his third.

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Their enduring marriage is an antidote to cynics who claim that genuine romance cannot flourish in Tinseltown.

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Since 1950, former child star and diplomat Shirley Temple has been married to businessman Charles Black. In contrast to most child stars who prove unable to grow up, her adult life has been crammed with achievements.

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Hollywood patriarch Henry Fonda was five times married and often at odds with his equally stellar children. But his romance with Shirlee proved in a rock in a stormy private life.

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When one of the most beautiful leading ladies from Hollywood's heyday married the doyen of New York fashion, a glittering future beckoned. But then their hopes of happiness were dashed by the birth of a severely retarded daughter.

Theirs was one of the most touching and adult relationships in Hollywood, which survived the tortured emotional life of one of Britain's greatest actors.

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Huston was one of Hollywood's greatest directors and libertines - but he met his match in feisty Evelyn Keyes.

For a brief period, Gary Merrill basked in the shadow cast by one of Hollywood's greatest divas. The tensions this caused inevitably doomed the marriage.

The world was genuinely moved when the former Soviet first lady died of leukaemia. Raisa had stood by her husband's side throughout an extraordinary career which changed the face of world politics.

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One of the most fascinating romances between two of America's greatest literary rebels.

Her career began as 'sister' to the world's most famous dummy, and blossomed as model, actress and photojournalist. Her marriage to one of France's leading directors who also established himself in Hollywood was cut short by his premature death.