Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1924

Famous Weddings

Jan 11 German-Swiss poet and novelist Hermann Hesse (36) weds Swiss soprano and painter Ruth Wenger (26); divorce in 1927

Feb 4 Jazz musician Louis Armstrong (22) weds jazz pianist Lillian "Lil" Hardin (26) - 2nd try for each; separate in 1931 and divorce in 1938

Feb 26 American astronomer Edwin Hubble (34) weds Grace Burke (34) in Pasadena, California, until his death in 1953

Mar 19 American poet e.e. cummings (29) weds first wife Elaine Orr; divorce in less than 9 months

Jun 4 Physician Frederick Banting (32) weds Marion Robertson

Jun 17 Golfer Bobby Jones (22) weds high school sweetheart Mary Rice Malone (22) in Atlanta, Georgia

Jun 21 Inventor Robert H. Goddard (41) weds secretary Esther Christine Kisk (23) at St. John's Episcopal Church in Worcester

Jun 24 American writer Henry Miller (31) marries 2nd wife June Smerth (21) in Hoboken, New Jersey; divorce in 1934

Aug 28 British children's writer Enid Blyton (27) marries editor Major Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO (36)

Nov 26 English comic actor and film maker Charlie Chaplin (35) weds second wife American "The Kid" actress Lita Grey (16) in Mexico; divorce in 1927

Dec 11 Photographer Alfred Stieglitz (60) marries artist Georgia O'Keeffe (37) in Cliffside Park, New Jersey

Oct 16 American writer ("Gone with the Wind") Margaret Mitchell divorces 1st husband Berrien "Red" Upshaw