Famous Weddings & Divorces in August 1946

Famous Weddings

Aug 10 American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Moss Hart (41) weds American singer and actress Kitty Carlisle (35), until his death in 1961

Aug 10 American science-fiction writer and future founder of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard (35) weds second wife Sara Northrup Hollister (22) in Florida, while still married to his first wife; divorce in 1951

Aug 16 Georgian-American ballet choreographer George Balanchine (42) weds Native American (Osage) ballerina Maria Tallchief (21); annulled in 1952

Aug 26 "Gone With The Wind" actress Olivia de Havilland (30) weds screenwriter and novelist Marcus Goodrich; divorce in 1953

Aug 8 Esta Krakower divorces mobster Bugsy Siegel (40) after 17 years of marriage