Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1926

Jan 4 American songwriter Irving Berlin (37) weds heiress and writer Ellin Mackay (23) in a simple civil ceremony in NYC, until her death in 1988

Mar 13 American folk and singer Maybelle Addington (17) weds music manager Ezra Carter (27)

Jul 10 Future Cuban President and dictator Fulgencio Batista (25) weds Elisa Godínez y Gómez (25)

Aug 13 Comedian Stan Laurel (36) marries 1st wife actress Lois Neilson (30)

Aug 26 Poet Arna Bontemps (24) weds fellow Seventh-Day Adventist Alberta Johnson

Sep 25 American student and future outlaw Bonnie Parker (15) weds American student and petty criminal Roy Thornton (17); separate in 1929

Sep 29 Canadian-American actress Norma Shearer weds film producer Irving Thalberg

Oct 4 Chemist Irene Joliot-Curie (29) weds physicist Frédéric Joliot (26) in Paris, France

Oct 18 Communist revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh (36) weds midwife Zeng Xueming (21) in Guangzhou

Oct 19 Pathologist Howard Florey (28) weds Ethel Reed at Holy Trinity Church in Paddington, New South Wales

Dec 2 Film director and producer Alfred Hitchcock (27) weds director Alma Reville (27) at Brompton Oratory in London

Dec 5 Gangster Carlo Gambino (24) weds his first cousin Catherine Castellano

Dec 18 Actor George Murphy (24) weds ballroom dancing partner Juliette Henkel