Hollywood Marriage - "Hollywood Marriages" That Lasted Less Than Three Years

"Hollywood Marriages" That Lasted Less Than Three Years

The idea that the term "Hollywood marriage" equates to something short-term is sometimes displayed by citing celebrities who had marriages that ended in divorce or annulment within three years. The following examples of that and reasons may be given when known.

• Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds: Married for 2 years.
• Sinéad O'Connor and Barry Herridge: Married for 16 days.
• Katy Perry and Russell Brand: Married for 14 months. This is the first marriage for both
• Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries: Married for 72 days. It was the First for Humphries and the second for Kardashian
• Pamela Anderson and Rick Salomon: Married for ten weeks. She was also married to Kid Rock for six months.
• Drew Barrymore and Jeremy Thomas: Nineteen days from February to March 1994. Her second marriage, to comedian Tom Green, lasted a little over a year.
• Humphrey Bogart and Helen Menken: Married for approximately seventeen months, it was the first marriage for both.
• Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman: Separated after 32 days of marriage, divorced soon after.
• George Brent and Ann Sheridan: Married less than a year before seeking a "Mexican divorce." He had also had a marriage to Ruth Chatterton that ended within two years and a marriage to Constance Worth that lasted two weeks.
• Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley: Married for less than four months in 2002, but the divorce took over a year to be finalized.
• Jim Carrey and Lauren Holly: Married for ten months from September 1996 to July 1997 when divorce proceedings started.
• Jackie Coogan and Betty Grable: Married for about two years. The marriage after that, to Flower Parry, was even shorter.
• Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe: Marriage lasted 274 days or roughly nine months.
• Shannen Doherty and Ashley Hamilton: Their marriage ended in divorce in March 1994 after less than six months due to "irreconcilable differences." Doherty also had a brief marriage, ending in annulment, with Rick Salomon in 2002.
• Vincent D'Onofrio and Greta Scacchi: 1991 to 1993. They had a child and she dramatized the relationship in theater.
• Patty Duke and Michael Tell: The marriage was annulled after 13 days and was during the "manic" phase of Patty Duke's Bipolar disorder. It was later discovered that Michael Tell, now a newspaper publisher then a rock promoter, was the biological father of her son Sean Astin.
• Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman: In 1998, ten days after marrying in Las Vegas, divorce plans began.
• Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan: Ended in a year or so.
• Ava Gardner and Mickey Rooney: A little over a year.
• Kelsey Grammer and Leigh-Anne Csuhany: The marriage lasted a year. He alleged she was violent and hid her mental illness. She denied that.
• Woody Harrelson and Nancy Simon, daughter of Neil Simon, married in Tijuana with the intent of getting a Mexican divorce afterward. The divorce did not occur until ten months later as the "divorce stand" was closed.
• Dennis Hopper and Michelle Phillips (married 31 October 1970 – divorced 8 November 1970)
• Helen Hunt and Hank Azaria: Married for seventeen months, but had been a couple for about five years before that.
• Larry King: Several of his marriages ended in divorce or annulment within three years.
• Hedy Lamarr and Teddy Stauffer: Filed for divorce after 8 months. It was her fourth marriage and he had been married before as well.
• Angela Lansbury and Richard Cromwell: Married from September 27, 1945 to September 1946.
• Eva Longoria and Tyler Christopher: Married for two years before divorce.
• Debra Paget and Budd Boetticher: Separated after 22 days and divorced within a year. Debra Paget's marriage to singer David Street also lasted less than a year.
• Claude Rains had several short marriages with his marriage to pianist Agi Jambor lasting under nine months.
• Martha Raye and Bud Westmore: Three months.
• Joan Rivers and James Sanger: Annulled in six months due to different views on having children.
• Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett: Married for 21 months from June 1993 to March 1995.
• Martin Scorsese and Julia Cameron: 1976 to 1977
• Charlie Sheen and Donna Peele: Less than a year from 1995 to 1996. He indicated she was "suffocating him" and around this time he was soliciting Heidi Fleiss's call-girls.
• Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow: Married from 1966 to 1968.
• Britney Spears and Jason Allen Alexander: Married in Las Vegas, marriage annulled soon after (56 hours).
• Connie Stevens and Eddie Fisher: Married two years before divorce.
• Elizabeth Taylor and Conrad Hilton, Jr. (6 May 1950 – 29 January 1951)
• Lana Turner and Artie Shaw: Married from February to September 1940.
• Lana Wood: Married and divorced, or annulled, five times from age 16 to 29. This makes her average marriage be less than 3 years.
• Natalie Wood and Richard Gregson: She filed suit for divorce after two years of the marriage.
• Jane Wyman and Myron Futterman: Marriage lasted eighteen months due to her wanting to have kids and him not wanting that.
• Renée Zellweger and Kenny Chesney: Four months before being annulled.