Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1936

Jan 1 Actor Paul Henreid (27) weds Elizabeth Camilla Julia Gluck

Jan 10 Actor Burgess Meredith (28) weds actress Margaret Perry (22)

Feb 2 Physicist Emilio G. Segrè (31) weds Elfriede Spiro at the Great Synagogue of Rome in Italy

Mar 14 American singer-songwriter Hoagy Carmichael (36) weds American Ruth Meinardi; divorce in 1955

Jun 9 Novelist and journalist George Orwell (33) weds Eileen Maud O'Shaugnessy (30) at St. Mary's Church

Aug 7 American "The Flintstones" animator William Hanna (26) weds Violet Blanch Wogatzke (23), until his death in 2001

Sep 16 American actor Henry Fonda (31) weds Canadian-American socialite Frances Ford Seymour (28) at Christ Church, New York City, until her death in1950

Oct 6 Diana Mitford marries Oswald Mosley in the house of Joseph Goebbels with Adolf Hitler as a guest

Nov 9 Actor John Barrymore (54) marries fourth wife Elaine Barrie (21) (divorced 1940)

Nov 28 Australian paleo-anthropologist Raymond Dart (43) weds South African librarian Marjorie Gordon Frew

Dec 22 Austrian-American filmmaker Billy Wilder (30) weds first wife Judith Coppicus; divorce in 1946

Dec 28 Football player Bronko Nagurski (28) weds childhood sweetheart Eileen Kane in International Falls, Minnesota

Mar 2 Film director D. W. Griffith (61) divorces Linda Arvidson (50) after 30 years of marriage