Famous Weddings
Bugsy Siegel
Jan 28 Mobster Bugsy Siegel (23) weds childhood sweetheart Esta Krakower
- Jan 30 Mitford sister Diana Mitford (18) marries Irish peer Bryan Walter Guinness (23) in the British society wedding of the year
Ginger Rogers
Mar 29 American actress and dancer Ginger Rogers (17) weds her dancing partner Jack Pepper (26); divorce in 1931
- May 1 American poet e.e (Edward Estlin) Cummings weds 2nd wife Anne Minnerly Barton; divorce in 1932
Charles Lindbergh & Anne Morrow Lindbergh
May 27 Aviator Charles Lindbergh (27) weds author Anne Morrow (22) in Englewood, New Jersey
Joan Crawford & Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Jun 3 American actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr (19) weds American actress Joan Crawford (24) at St. Malachy Catholic church in NYC's theatre district; divorce in 1933
William Faulkner
Jun 20 Author William Faulkner (31) weds Estelle Oldham at College Hill Presbyterian Church outside Oxford, Mississippi
Eugene O'Neill
Jul 22 American playwright Eugene O'Neill (40) weds American actress Carlotta Monterey (40), in Paris, France (his 3rd marriage, her 4th) until his death in 1953
Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera
Aug 21 Painter Diego Rivera (42) weds fellow artist Frida Kahlo (22)
- Oct 12 US military leader George Marshall (48) weds Katherine Tupper
Willie Sutton
Oct 21 Bank robber Willie Sutton (28) weds Louise Leudemann
E. B. White
Nov 13 American writer E. B. White (30) weds literary editor Katharine Angell (37)
Shirley Booth
Nov 23 Academy Award-winning Shirley Booth marries comic actor Ed Gardner
Aga Khan III
Dec 7 Nizari Imam Aga Khan III (52) weds Andrée Joséphine Carron in Aix-les-Bains, France
Famous Divorces
Eugene O'Neill
Jul 3 American Playwright Eugene O'Neill divorces second wife novelist Agnes Boulton after 11 years of marriage
Howard Hughes
Dec 9 Businessman Howard Hughes divorces 1st wife Ella Rice after 4 years of marriage