Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1947

Famous Weddings

Mar 1 Rocket engineer Wernher von Braun (34) weds Maria Luise von Quistorp (18) at a Lutheran church in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany

May 17 NBA center George Mikan (22) weds college sweetheart Patricia Lu Daveny

Jun 7 Future US Senator Edward W. Brooke (27) weds first wife Remigia Ferrari-Scacco

Sep 27 Fantasy and sci-fiction writer Ray Bradbury (27) weds Marguerite McClure (25)

Nov 20 Future British Queen Princess Elizabeth II (21) weds Lt Philip Mountbatten (26) in Westminster Abbey, London

Dec 5 "Spider-Man" creator Stan Lee (24) weds Joan Clayton Boocock

Dec 10 American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald (30) weds American jazz bass player Ray Brown (21); divorce in 1953

Dec 21 Actress Estelle Getty (24) weds Arthur Gettleman

Dec 26 President of Indonesia Suharto (26) weds Siti Hartinah (24) in Surakarta at a traditional Javanese ceremony

Nov 1 Film director D. W. Griffith (72) divorces actress Evelyn Baldwin (37) after 11 years of marriage

Nov 10 American "Gilda" actress Rita Hayworth (28) divorces American actor-director-wunderkind Orson Welles (32) after just over 4 years of marriage