55 Stunning Vintage Photos of Hollywood Legends on Their Wedding Day

Silent-film actor and director Buster Keaton married his first wife, Natalie Talmadge, on May 31. She had acted alongside him in Our Hospitality, a silent film he also had directed. The couple divorced in 1932, and Keaton went on to marry twice more.

Before he became the star of a slew of Westerns, John Wayne met his first wife, Josephine Saenz, the daughter of the Consul General of Panama in the U.S. After years of dating, they married on June 24, 1933, when Wayne was 26, and had four children. They divorced in 1945.

Ginger Rogers and Lew Ayres met while both acting in the movie Don't Bet on Love in 1933. They sealed the deal on November 14 but separated after less than two years. Four years later, in 1940, Rogers finalized the divorce.

Swedish-born actor Ingrid Bergman married her first husband, then a dentist and later a neurosurgeon Dr. Petter Lindstrom, who was eight years her senior, on July 10, 1937. In 1950, they divorced after Bergman left him for an affair with Roberto Rossellini, the director of a movie she acted in, Stromboli. She married Rossellini and later remarried another.

The Hollywood heavy hitters met on the set of No Man of Her Own in 1933 and managed to evade the press on their wedding day by eloping in 1939. Here, they pose after announcing their marriage to the public. The couple was married until Lombard's tragic death in a plane crash in 1942.

Ronald Reagan and his first wife, actress Jane Wyman, got married two years after working together on the film Brother Rat in 1938. On January 25, 1940, they married in Glendale, California. They divorced in 1949, allegedly due to political ambitions and differences.

Just after her 16th birthday, then Norma Jean married James Dougherty, 21, the neighbor of her foster family, on June 19, 1942, in Los Angeles. The marriage was one of convenience: It meant that Norma Jean could stay out of foster care and the orphanage. They divorced in 1946 so Norma Jean could pursue movie stardom and eventually become Marilyn Monroe.

Hollywood's leading man met Barbara Hutton, the heiress to the Woolworth fortune, in California during World War II, as they were both promoting the purchase of war bonds. They got married in 1942 and were dubbed "Cash and Cary" by the press. The couple divorced three years later in 1945.

In 1943, Orson Welles was producing and acting in The Mercury Wonder Show, an onstage production for soldiers, which also starred Rita Hayworth. She had two younger brothers who served in World War II. On September 7, when she was 25 and he 28, the two ran off to the marriage license bureau in Santa Monica, California, just prior to their wedding on September 7, 1943. They divorced in 1947. Welles was Hayworth's second of five husbands.

Famous entertainer and tap dancer, Bill Robinson (known as Bojangles), met Elaine Plaines shortly after his divorce from his second wife, Fannie Clay. Robinson and Plaines wed in January 1944 and were married until his death in 1949.

Humphrey Bogart met Lauren Bacall on the set of To Have and Have Not in 1944. It was her first on-screen acting role. Bogart was 25 years older than Bacall, then just 19. They married on May 21, 1945, at the home of novelist Louis Bromfeld, Malabar Farm, in Mansfield, Ohio. Bogart had finalized his divorce just 10 days earlier. The couple starred opposite each other in four movies and in numerous TV shows. They remained together until Bogart’s death in 1957.

Bette Davis took her third husband, artist and masseur William Grant Sherry, on November 30. They had one daughter together, Barbara, who was Davis's only biological child (Bette would go on to adopt two children with her fourth and final husband). Sherry and Davis divorced in 1950.

Vincent Minnelli was the director of Meet Me in St. Louis, one of Judy Garland's most famous films. They later married on June 15, 1945, just after her 23rd birthday, and had a daughter, Liza, together. In 1951, they divorced.

On September 19, 1945, 17-year-old Shirley Temple married John Agar, an Air Force sergeant who was given exceptional leave for the ceremony. The two celebrated their wedding reception at Temple's home. They divorced five years later, and Temple remarried just once more.

The American-born French entertainer said "I do" to composer Jo Bouillon in a small ceremony in the chapel of her French chateau, Les Milandes. It was Baker's fourth marriage and the couple was together until 1961, during which time they adopted 12 children together, known as "the rainbow tribe."

The Portuguese-born entertainer traded in her iconic headdresses for a veil in 1947, when she wed Hollywood producer David Sebastian. The couple met on the set of Copacabana and tied the knot shortly after. They were married until she died in 1955.

Famed jazz singer Nat King Cole met Maria Hawkins Ellington when she was working as a singer in Duke Ellington's band. The couple tied the knot in Harlem, New York City on Easter Sunday — just a week after Cole's divorce from his first marriage was finalized.

Jimmy Stewart was known as Hollywood's proverbial bachelor until he traded in his lifestyle for socialite Gloria Hatrick McLean. The leading man wed McLean in Los Angeles at Brentwood Presbyterian Church in 1949. The couple remained married until McLean's death in 1994.

English-born actress Angela Lansbury met her second and final husband, Peter Shaw, at a party held by fellow actor Hurd Hatfield in 1946. After first moving in together, they married on August 12, 1949, at the Chapel of St. Columba's Church House in Lennox Gardens, Kensington, London. The duo had two children and stayed together until Shaw's death in 2003, making them one of the longest-lasting husband-and-wife pairs in Hollywood history.

Hollywood film star Rita Hayworth met Prince Aly Khan while visiting the French Rivera. The couple wed shortly after in 1949 in the South of France, naturally. Here, they cut the cake with a sword on their wedding day. They had one child together, a daughter and were married until 1953.