Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1943

Feb 14 Walmart founder Sam Walton (24) weds Helen Robson (23)

Feb 15 Model Bettie Page (19) weds high school sweetheart Billy Neal in Gallatin, Tennessee

Feb 18 Chilean army officer, and future dictator, Augusto Pinochet (27) marries Lucía Hiriart (20)

Mar 14 American movie actress Lana Turner (22) and American actor and restaurateur Steve Crane remarry in Tijuana, Mexico; divorce in 1944

Mar 29 American author John Steinbeck (41) weds second wife Gwyndolyn Conger; divorce 1948

Apr 6 US Marine Corps aviator and astronaut John Glenn (21) weds high school sweetheart Anna Margaret Castor

Apr 10 Actor Peter Cushing (29) weds actress Violet Helene Beck in London, England

Apr 17 Actress Claire Trevor (34) weds Navy lieutenant Cyclos William Dunsmoore in Tijuana, Mexico

Jun 16 English comic actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin (54) weds English-American actress Oona O'Neill (18), until his death in 1977

Jul 5 American actress Betty Grable (26) weds American trumpeter and bandleader Harry James (27); divorce in 1965

Jul 17 One of the world's greatest contraltos, American Marian Anderson (46) weds architect Orpheus H. Fisher at the Elmwood Chapel in Bethel, Connecticut

Aug 13 Evangelist Billy Graham (24) weds philanthropist and Christian author Ruth Bell (23) in Montreat, North Carolina

Oct 20 British Children's writer Enid Blyton marries 2nd husband surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters at City of Westminster registry office, London

Oct 23 55th UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George (80) weds second wife Frances Stevenson

Oct 30 Italian director Federico Fellini (23) weds Italians actress Giulietta Masina (22), until his death in 1993

Dec 5 Singer and actress Dinah Shore (27) weds actor George Montgomery (27)

Dec 24 American comic actor and writer Carl Reiner (21) weds singer Estelle Lebost (29)

Jun 29 Actor Jackie Coogan (28) divorces actress Flower Parry after almost 2 years of marriage

Jul 7 Heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey (48) divorces broadway singer Hannah Williams (32) after 10 years of marriage