Famous Weddings & Divorces in June 1956

Famous Weddings

Sonja Henie

Jun 6 Three-time Olympic Champion figure skater Sonja Henie (44) weds Norwegian shipping magnate and art patron Niels Onstad (47)

Ted Cassidy

Jun 14 Actor Ted Cassidy (23) weds Margaret Helen

Ted Hughes & Sylvia Plath

Jun 16 British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes (25) weds American writer and poet Sylvia Plath (23) at St George the Martyr Holborn in London, England, until her death in 1963

Marilyn Monroe & Arthur Miller

Jun 29 American actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (30) weds for the 3rd time, this time marrying playwright Arthur Miller (40) at White Plains Court House in White Plains, New York; divorce in 1961