Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1942

Jan 22 Novelist Anthony Burgess (25) weds Llewela Jones

Mar 20 American clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman (32) weds American socialite Alice Frances Hammond Duckworth (28), until her death in 1978

Mar 26 Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi (25) weds politician and journalist Feroze Gandhi (29) at Anand Bhavan

May 9 Physicist Robert Hofstadter (27) weds Nancy Givan

May 23 Comic book artist Jack Kirby (24) weds Roz Goldstein

Jun 6 American "The Thin Man" actress Myrna Loy (36) weds second husband, John Hertz Jr. in New York City; divorce in 1944

Jun 19 Aspiring American actress Norma Jean Mortenson (later known as Marilyn Monroe) (16) weds first husband American merchant marine James Dougherty (21); divorce in 1946

Jul 8 British-American "His Girl Friday" actor Cary Grant (38) weds American heiress and socialite Barbara Hutton (29) - his second marriage, her third; divorce in 1945

Jul 17 American movie actress Lana Turner (21) weds 2nd husband, American actor and restaurateur Steve Crane (annulled due to uncompleted divorce from prior marriage)

Jul 26 Science fiction author Isaac Asimov (22) weds Gertrude Blugerman in Brooklyn, New York

Aug 1 Future American actress Janet Leigh (15) weds childhood sweetheart John Kenneth Carlisle (18) in Reno, Nevada; annulled in December

Aug 8 Journalist Ben Bradlee (20) weds Jean Saltonstall

Aug 23 "King Kong" actress Fay Wray (34) weds screenwriter and playwright Robert Riskin (45)

Sep 17 Ice hockey player Maurice Richard (20) weds Lucille Norchet (17)

Oct 4 Actor Gregory Peck (26) weds real estate broker Greta Kukkonen (31)

Oct 12 American jazz musician Louis Armstrong (41) weds fourth and final wife, American Cotton Club dancer Lucille Wilson (28), at singer Velma Middleton's home in St. Louis, Missouri, until his death in 1971 [1]

Jul 21 Actress Mae West (48) divorces vaudeville performer Frank Wallace after 31 years of marriage

Oct 2 Jazz musician Louis Armstrong (41) divorces Alpha Smith after 4 years of marriage

Dec 15 Actress Mary Astor (36) divorces film editor Manuel del Campo (29) after more than 4 years of marriage

Dec 28 American actress Janet Leigh (15) granted annulment of 4 month marriage to childhood sweetheart John Kenneth Carlisle (18)