Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1941

Famous Weddings

Jan 11 Comedian Stan Laurel and actress Virginia Ruth Rogers remarry for the 2nd time

Feb 4 American dancer and actress Vera-Ellen (19) weds fellow American dancer Robert Hightower; divorce in 1946

Feb 22 Future CIA Director William J. Casey (27) weds Sophia Kurz

Mar 21 American Actress Hattie McDaniel (45) weds real estate salesman James Lloyd Crawford; divorced 1945

Apr 17 American actress Doris Day (19) weds trombonist Albert Jorden

Apr 19 Youngest Mitford sister Deborah Mitford marries Andrew Cavendish, son of the Duke of Devonshire in London

May 4 Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley (23) weds Ethel Arnold

Jun 1 American actress Gene Tierney (20) weds Russian-Italian fashion designer Oleg Cassini (28); divorce in 1952

Jun 5 NBA coach Red Auerbach (23) weds Dorothy Lewis

Jul 12 Actor William Holden (23) weds actress Brenda Marshall (25) in Las Vegas

Jul 27 American singer and actress Judy Garland (19) weds British-American musician David Rose (31); divorce in 1944

Aug 10 American actor Jackie Coogan (26) weds American actress Flower Parry in Gardnerville, Nevada; divorce in 1943

Aug 25 American jazz singer Billie Holiday (26) weds American jazz trombonist Jimmy Monroe; divorce in 1947

Oct 13 NFL halfback Red Grange (38) weds flight attendant Margaret Hazelberg

Oct 25 American actress Rosalind Russell weds Danish-American film producer Frederick Brisson, until her death

Nov 5 Writer and veterinary surgeon James Herriot (25) weds Joan Catherine Danbury

Dec 4 Entertainer Milton Berle (33) marries actress Joyce Matthews (21) for the first time (divorced 1947, remarried 1949)

Dec 26 Jazz musician Ella Fitzgerald (24) weds convicted drug dealer Benny Kornegay; annulled 1943

Dec 29 Actress Maureen O'Hara (21) marries second husband director Will Price (28) (divorced 1953)

Jun 14 American stage and screen actress Tallulah Bankhead (39) divorces American actor John Emery (36) in Reno, Nevada after less than 4 years of marriage