Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1928

Famous Weddings

Ansel Adams

Jan 2 Photographer Ansel Adams (25) weds Virginia Best in Yosemite Valley

Mary Astor

Feb 26 American actress Mary Astor (21) weds American film director Kenneth Hawks (30) at her family home "Moorcrest" in the Hollywood Hills, until his death in 1930

Oskar Schindler

Mar 6 Industrialist Oskar Schindler (19) weds Emilie Schindler (20) in Svitavy, Czech Republic

Fay Wray

Jun 15 "King Kong" actress Fay Wray (20) weds playwright-screenwriter John Monk Saunders (30)

Thomas E. Dewey

Jun 16 New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey (26) weds American stage actress Frances Eileen Hutt (25), until her death in 1970

Enrico Fermi

Jul 19 Physicist Enrico Fermi (26) weds writer Laura Capon in Rome, Italy

Frank Lloyd Wright

Aug 25 American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (61) weds Montenegrin dancer and writer Olga Ivanovna (27) in Rancho Santa Fe, California (his third marriage, her second), until his death in 1959

John Barrymore

Nov 24 Actor John Barrymore (46) marries third wife silent screen actress Dolores Costello (25) (divorced 1935)