Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1948

Feb 12 American comic Dick Van Dyke (22) weds American girlfriend Margerie Willett (20) on the radio show "Bride and Groom" in Los Angeles California; divorce in 1984 after a long separation

Feb 16 American baseball player and manager Leo Durocher (41) weds actress Laraine Day (27) in Santa Monica, California; divorce in 1960

Mar 28 Musician Nat King Cole (29) weds jazz singer Maria Hawkins (25) at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York

Apr 26 American movie actress Lana Turner (27) weds 3rd husband, millionaire socialite Henry J. "Bob" Topping, Jr, In Los Angeles, California; divorce in 1952

May 28 Film director Stanley Kubrick (19) weds high school sweetheart Toba Metz

Jun 19 "Cyrano de Bergerac" actor José Ferrer weds second wife actress Phyllis Hill

Jun 27 American handheld calculator inventor Jack Kilby (24) weds Barbara Annegers

Oct 11 Fellow students Fidel Castro and Mirta Diaz-Balart marry (divorced 1955)

Oct 22 American farm labor leader Cesar Chavez (21) weds American labor activist Helen Fabela (20) in Reno, Nevada in civil ceremony, followed later by a church service in California; marriage lasts until his death in 1993

Nov 18 KFC founder Colonel Sanders (58) weds his long-time employee Claudia Price

Dec 26 MLB player Gil Hodges (24) weds Joan Lombardi

Mar 22 American musician Nat King Cole (29) divorces dancer Nadine Robinson after 11 years of marriage