Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1931

Feb 7 American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart (33) weds publisher George Palmer Putnam (43) in Noank, Connecticut

Jun 8 Songwriter Johnny Mercer (21) weds chorus girl Ginger Meehan (21) in New York City [1]

Jun 13 American actress Margaret Hamilton (28) weds landscape architect Paul Meserve

Jun 29 Actress Mary Astor (25) weds Dr. Franklyn Thorpe

Jul 4 Irish "Ulysses" writer James Joyce (49) and Nora Barnacle (47) finally marry in London registry office after meeting in 1904; remain wed until his death in 1941.

Aug 22 FBI agent Melvin Purvis (27) weds childhood sweetheart Marie Rosanne Willcox at St. John's Episcopal Church in Florence, South Carolina

Nov 9 Actress Gloria Swanson (32) weds Michael Farmer

Dec 3 Silent film actress Clara Bow (26) weds actor and politician Rex Bell (28) in Las Vegas

Dec 19 Propagandist Joseph Goebbels (34) weds Magda Ritschel (30) at Günther Quandt's farm in Mecklenburg, Germany

Dec 26 SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich marries Lina von Osten

Nov 9 Actress Gloria Swanson (32) divorces aristocrat Henri de la Falaise (33) after 6 years of marriage