Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1932

Famous Weddings

Feb 1 Film director Frank Capra (34) weds secretary Lucille Reyburn

Apr 30 Australian Test cricket batsman Don Bradman (23) weds Jessie Martha Menzies at St Paul's Anglican Church in Burwood, Sydney

May 13 Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (25) weds Russian physicist Nina Varsar (23), mostly until her death in 1954

Jul 2 Platinum blonde screen goddess Jean Harlow (21) weds MGM producer Paul Bern (42)

Jul 7 Author Damon Runyon (51) weds Patrice Amati del Grande

Jul 19 "Rebecca" author Daphne Du Maurier (25) weds commander of the I Airborne Corps Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning (35)
Aug 3 Austro-Hungarian-American theatre and film director Otto Preminger (26) weds Marion Mill; divorce in 1949

Aug 18 American actress Bette Davis (24) weds American musician Harmon Nelson (25) in Yuma, Arizona; divorce in 1938

Sep 30 Actor and director Ray Milland (27) weds Muriel Frances Weber

Nov 20 American blues musician Muddy Waters (19 or 21) weds American Mabel Berry; divorce in 1935

Dec 5 "East of Eden" director Elia Kazan (23) weds playwright Molly Day Thatcher (25)

Dec 18 Civil rights activist Rosa McCauley (19) weds Raymond Parks (29) in Montgomery, Alabama