Random Movies That Totally Shattered Celebrity Marriages (17 items)

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  (#1) Cleopatra

  • Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Martin Landau, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Carroll O'Connor, Hume Cronyn, Francesca Annis, Pamela Brown, Robert Stephens, Grégoire Aslan, Andrew Keir, Martin Benson, George Cole, Cesare Danova, Kenneth Haigh, Herbert Berghof

  Destroyed Marriage #1: Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher (1959-1964)

  Destroyed Marriage #2: Richard Burton and Sybil Williams (1949-1963)

  When Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton started filming Cleopatra in 1961, they hated each other. She called him "brutish and boorish;" he called her "Miss Tits." When it was time for their first on-scene kiss, however, all of that seemed to go out the window. The director called cut, then cut again, then again... but they couldn't stop kissing.

  There was one catch, however: they were both married at the time. Taylor was with her fourth husband, Eddie Fisher, and Burton was married to Sybil Williams. Once word of their scandalous kiss got out, their marriages went up in flames. The two eventually divorced their respective spouses and married each other from 1964 to 1974, divorced, and then remarried each other from 1975 to 1976. 
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  (#10) Green Lantern

  • Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Angela Bassett, Tim Robbins, Mark Strong, Michael Clarke Duncan, Geoffrey Rush, Peter Sarsgaard, Clancy Brown, Jon Tenney, Jay O. Sanders, Taika Waititi, Richard A. Searfoss, Temuera Morrison, Michael Doyle, Lance E. Nichols, Ritchie Montgomery, Gattlin Griffith, Laura Cayouette, Douglas M. Griffin, Logan Douglas Smith, Terry Lee Smith, Griff Furst, Nick Jandl, Warren Burton, Jeff Wolfe, Dane Rhodes, Salome Jens, Deke Anderson, Dorian Kingi, Edward J. Clare, Bernard Hocke, Lena Clark, Armando Leduc, Kenneth Brown Jr., Jenna Craig, Sharon Morris, Tiffany Morgan, Nathan Alan Thomas, Leanne Cochran, Brock Patrick Kaufman, Garrett Hines, John Santiago, Teri Wyble, Silas Cooper, Melanie Hebert, Ashley Reed, Marcela Duarte Fonseca, Kennon Kepper, Michael Jamorski, Bobby Holland Hanton, Laura Flannery, Brooke Bezick, Annette Denise Bass, Dylan James, Warren P. Munster, Christopher Reeves, Tony Owens, LaTonya Norton, Donna Haynes Crehan, D.J. Mills, Andrew J. Spinks

  Destroyed Marriage: Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson (2008-2011)

  Destroyed Relationship: Blake Lively and Penn Badgely (2007-2010)

  Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are coy about when they fell in love, but all signs point to them getting close on the set of Green Lantern. The two were spotted getting cozy in New York City during filming, and their friendship seemed to blow up their respective relationships at the time.

  Shortly after filming ended, Lively broke up with Gossip Girl costar Penn Badgley and Scarlett Johannson divorced Reynolds. The two lovebirds married in 2012.
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  (#13) House of Wax

  • Paris Hilton, Elisha Cuthbert, Jared Padalecki, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Robert Ri'chard, Jon Abrahams, Damon Herriman, Andy Anderson, Dragicia Debert, Murray Smith, Thomas Adamson

  Destroyed Marriage: Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush (2005-2006)

  Destroyed Relationship: Paris Hilton and Nick Carter

  Teenaged jaws dropped across the country in 2006 when Nick Carter went on Ryan Seacrest's radio show and claimed that then-girlfriend Paris Hilton had hooked up with Chad Michael Murray while filming House of Wax in 2005. Even more scandalous was the fact that Murray was married to One Tree Hill co-star Sophia Bush at the time. Murray and Bush, who had been married for all of five months when the news broke, quickly separated and then divorced a few months later. In 2014, Bush defended her divorce from Murray while still circumventing the Paris Hilton rumors:

  "We were two stupid kids who had no business being in a relationship in the first place. To all the other co-stars who've worked it out, more power to you."
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  (#17) Mind Over Murder

  Destroyed Marriage #1: Tori Spelling and Charlie Shanian (2004-2006)

  Destroyed Marriage #2: Dean McDermott and Mary Jo Eustace (1993–2006) 

  Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott have been married since 2006, but they were both already wed when they met on set for the Lifetime TV movie Mind Over Murder less than a year before they eloped in Fiji. The pair spent the night together the day they met and never looked back. 

  McDermott has a son with his previous wife, and he and Spelling have had five kids together. 
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  (#9) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

  • Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter, John Cleese, Kenneth Branagh, Ian Holm, Aidan Quinn, Hugh Bonneville, Richard Briers, Tom Hulce, Celia Imrie, Robert Hardy, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Cherie Lunghi, Gerard Horan, Joanna Roth, Trevyn McDowell, Mark Hadfield, Ryan J-W Smith

  Destroyed Marriage: Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson (1989-1995)

  While Kenneth Branagh directed and starred in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, he was one half of the reigning couple of early '90s British cinema. Branagh had been married to Emma Thompson for five years before production started, but apparently couldn't overcome his attraction to his Frankenstein costar Helena Bonham Carter. Thompson divorced Branagh shortly after news broke of his affair with Bonham Carter, and has since made peace with the actress:

  "As Mike Nicholls [the film and theatre director] once said, and I’ve picked it up because I think it’s such a wonderful phrase - all blood under the bridge. You can’t hold on to anything like that. I just think… pfft... It’s pointless. I haven’t got the energy for it. Helena and I made our peace years and years ago."
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  (#7) The Misfits

  • Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Eli Wallach, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Kevin McCarthy, James Barton, Philip Mitchell, Dennis Shaw

  Destroyed Marriage: Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller (1956-1961)

  Marilyn Monroe and playwright Arthur Miller had been married four years when they united professionally on the set of The Misfits, but the movie's pressures proved too much for the mismatched couple. Miller wrote the movie as a dramatic starring vehicle for Monroe, but annoyed her with his constant rewrites and blatant sexism. According to Monroe's biography, The Passion and the Paradox, Monroe, who had dubbed Miller a "peaceful monster" at the beginning of their marriage, claimed that the movie's most interesting roles had gone to its male stars. Add to that the fact that the pair were confined to the Nevada desert for months and Monroe's declining health, and it wasn't long before the couple divorced. 

  The Misfits turned out to be the last movie that Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable ever filmed before their respective deaths. Gable died 12 days after filming completed; Monroe died one year after the film was released. Some critics say the actress' performance in the film was the finest of her career.

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