Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1923

Famous Weddings

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Jan 29 President of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (41) weds Latife Hanim; divorce in 1925

Feb 10 American silent screen actor and film maker Harold Lloyd (29) weds his leading lady, American actress Mildred Davis (21), until her death in 1969
Mar 23 Writer Anaïs Nin (Delta of Venus) marries banker and artist Hugh Parker Guiler in Havana, Cuba

Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother & George VI

Apr 26 English prince Albert Duke of York (George VI) (27) marries Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (22) at Westminster Abbey

Walter Hagen

Apr 30 Golfer champion Walter Hagen (30) weds Edna Straus at the Hotel Biltmore in New York

Marlene Dietrich

May 17 Actress and singer Marlene Dietrich (21) weds assistant director Rudolf Sieber (26) in Berlin, Germany

Linus Pauling

Jun 17 Chemist Linus Pauling (22) weds Ava Helen Miller

Margaret Mead

Sep 3 Cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead (21) weds field archaeologist Luther Cressman (25)

Spencer Tracy

Sep 12 Actor Spencer Tracy (23) weds Louise Treadwell (26) in Cincinnati, Ohio

Erich Maria Remarque

Oct 14 German "All Quiet on the Western Front" author Erich Maria Remarque (25) weds German actress Ilse Jutta Zambona; divorce in 1930, remarry in 1938, re-divorce in 1957