Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1962

Mar 21 Academy award-winning British actor Rex Harrison (54) weds actress and third wife Rachel Roberts (34) in Genoa, Italy

May 4 Actor Christopher Plummer (32) weds columnist Patricia Lewis at the Marylebone Registry office in London

May 14 Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain

Jun 10 NFL Chicago Bears running back Gale Sayers (19) weds his high school sweetheart Linda McNeil

Jun 17 American actor Jack Nicholson (25) weds American actress Sandra Knight (22) in Los Angeles, California; divorce in 1968

Jun 22 American actress-singer Jane Froman (54) weds college friend Rowland Smith

Jul 28 NBA player Lenny Wilkens (24) weds Marilyn Reed

Aug 10 American actor Marlon Brando (38) weds third wife, French-Tahitian actress Tarita Teriipaia (20); divorce in 1972

Aug 17 Actor Jack Lemmon (37) weds actress and model Felicia Farr (29) in Paris, France

Aug 23 British "Beatles" musician John Lennon (21) weds British art school girlfriend Cynthia Powell (22); divorce in 1968

Aug 25 Future US Army General and Secretary of State Colin Powell (25) weds American audiologist Alma Johnson (24) at the First Congregational Church in Birmingham, Alabama, until his death in 2021

Sep 15 American actress Janet Leigh (35) weds Swedish film maker and stockbroker Robert Brandt

Oct 9 French singer Édith Piaf (46) marries French Greek actor Théo Sarapo (26)

Nov 18 Singer Barry White (18) weds childhood sweetheart Betty Smith

Nov 26 American singer Anna Mae Bullock (aka Tina Turner) (23) weds American musician Ike Turner (31) on her birthday, in Tijuana, Mexico; divorce in 1978

Nov 28 Japanese artist and peace activist Yoko Ono (30) weds (her second time) American musician and film producer Anthony Cox (26-ish); annulled and remarried in 1963, divorce in 1969

Dec 6 Actor Sean Connery (32) weds actress Diane Cilento on Gibraltar; divorce 1973

Dec 18 Pop singer Little Eva (19) weds James Harris