We watched Brad and Angelina fall in love on screen β and their break up and divorce have been just as public. We like it, too, when, long after they have parted, former screen couples remain so close they can mock one another with good-natured affection.
The pair appeared in three films together and stayed married for 13 years. Vivian Leigh and Laurence Olivier co-starred in Hamlet in , fell in love, and married three years later. Those darling lovebirds met in , while making Woman of the Year. Although Tracy was married, the two began an affair that lasted 25 years.
Bacall was 19 and living with her mother. They had an affair and married two years later. Their union was complex, with Bogie keeping a long-term mistress and Bacall hooking up with Frank Sinatra. But despite, or perhaps because of all that, they stayed together until Bogart died, with Sinatra and Bogart remaining friends to the end. While the days of classic Hollywood glamour couples such as Bogie and Bacall have long faded, traces can still be found in the glitz that surrounds the Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds partnership.
The beautiful couple met on the set of Green Lantern, in At the time, Reynolds was married to the exquisite and massively successful Scarlett Johansson, and Lively was dating Penn Badgley, who played her boyfriend in Gossip Girl. Within three months of Lively and Reynolds meeting, Johansson and Badgley were off the scene. It was before the Green Lantern couple emerged as real-life lovers. Whether their romance was a slow burn, only they know for sure, but other screen couples, such as Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, took far longer to couple up in real life.
Kunis first kissed Kutcher on the set of That 70s Show. She was He was five years older. This was ironic, given that they both appeared separately in movies with storylines based around those very themes. Later, as happens in all the best love stories, the two fell in love. Today, 20 years after their first screen kiss, they seem blissfully happy together. Another, apparent slow-burn love-story was that of Claire Skinner and Hugh Dennis.
