Annette Funicello & Paul Anka
Annette Funicello & Paul Anka circa 1959
Paul Anka & Annette Funicello
Annette Funicello & Paul Anka circa 1959
the pair dated when she was a young disney starlet and he wrote the song ‘puppy love’ for her.
Grace Kelley & fashion designer Oleg Cassini. The two dated and were briefly engaged after Cassini’s divorce from actress Gene Tierney.
Tammy Grimes & Christopher Plummer with their daughter Amanda Plummer
circa 1959
’To say that he was a great lover — sensual, generous, delightfully inventive — would be gravely understating what he did not only to my body, but for my soul. Every aspect of being with Marlon was thrilling, because he was more engaged in the world than anyone else I’d ever known,’- Rita Moreno on her relationship with Marlon Brando in an upcoming memoir
Liz Sheridan, an actress perhaps best known for playing Jerry Seinfeld’s mother on Seinfeld, was working as a dancer in New York City in the early 1950s when she met a then unknown James Dean. The two became a couple and Sheridan has stated that they were engaged. She wrote a memoir of their romance entitled Dizzy & Jimmy: My Life with James Dean: A Love Story.