Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1944

Jan 26 Actor Ralph Richardson (41) weds actress Meriel Forbes (30)

Mar 17 American actor Charlton Heston (20) weds American actress and photographer Lydia Clarke (20)

May 4 Baseball player Ted Williams marries Doris Soule (divorced 1954)

May 21 American actor Burgess Meredith (36) weds American actress Paulette Goddard (33) at film studio executive David O. Selznick's Beverly Hills home - third time for each; divorce in 1949

May 29 Boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson (23) weds Edna Mae Holly

Jul 23 Actress Susan Hayward (27) weds actor Jess Barker (32) at St. Thomas Church in Los Angeles, California

Aug 22 Writer Jack Kerouac (22) weds author Edie Kerouac Parker

Sep 6 Actor Yul Brynner (24) weds actress Virginia Gilmore (25) at the Los Angeles County Courthouse; divorce in 1960

Oct 3 American comedian Jerry Lewis (18) marries American singer Patti Palmer (22); divorce in 1980

Oct 9 Nizari Imam Aga Khan III (67) weds 1930 Miss France Yvonne Blanche Labrousse (38) in Geneva, Switzerland

Nov 11 Blues musician B.B. King (19) marries his first wife Martha Denton

Nov 20 Model agency executive Eileen Ottensoser (22) weds businessman Gerard W. Ford (20) in San Francisco, California

Dec 15 American country music star Hank Williams (21) weds American country singer Audrey Sheppard (21). her second marriage and his first; divorce in 1952