10.Ava Gardner
In addition to her famed beauty and glamor, Ava Gardner was known for having, at best, a problematic dating life.
Her first marriage, to movie star Mickey Rooney, ended in divorce, as did her second marriage, to actor Artie Shaw, before she turned 25. She later married Frank Sinatra and had connections to Ernest Hemingway.
Indeed, in spite of the fact that the lion’s share of her connections were unstable, she was totally legitimate in her collection of memoirs, Ava: My Story, which was distributed after her passing in 1990. She claimed there was abuse from past relationships in addition to other bold secrets.
This list includes Ava Gardner’s past boyfriends, husbands, and romantic relationships. It includes her first marriage to Mickey Rooney and her connection with Frank Sinatra.
Mickey Rooney
Artie Shaw
Frank Sinatra
Fred MacMurray
Luis Miguel Dominguín
George C. Scott
Ernest Hemingway
09. Elizabeth Taylor
Not only was Elizabeth Taylor a celebrated actress and beauty queen, but she was also considered one of Hollywood’s most notorious seductresses. The most notorious scandal started as a result of her relationship with singer Eddie Fisher, who was then married to her closest friend, Debbie Reynolds. Taylor and Fisher eventually tied the knot, but their union ended in divorce. Years later, Reynolds and Taylor were reunited after Taylor expressed regret.
All through her life, Taylor got hitched seven times, twice to her genuine adore, the performing artist Richard Burton. After her final divorce from construction worker Larry Fortensky in 1996, she seemed to have had enough of marriage and decided to remain single till her death in 2011.
08.Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh was widely recognized for her extraordinary talent, commanding presence, and stunning beauty. She gained fame for her iconic portrayals of Blanche DuBois and Scarlett O’Hara. However, her marriage to Sir Laurence Olivier was infamous for its turbulence, and her achievements were frequently overshadowed by challenges and controversial decisions. When Olivier was still married to actress Jill Esmond, who was expecting at the time, Leigh and Olivier started having an affair. Still, Olivier filed for divorce from his partner, and shortly after that, he married Leigh.
According to one of the many documentaries made about her, Leigh
“Went to see [Laurence Olivier] in a play, and declared, ‘that’s the man I’m going to marry.’ And a friend of hers who was with her had to point out, ‘well, actually, you’re already married.’ But this was all part of this ruthless ambition… people were to be cast by the wayside in those early days, until she achieved what she really wanted.”
07. Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Bankhead was a one-of-a-kind sex symbol because she was beautiful, witty, and not afraid to speak her mind. Emlyn Williams described her voice as “steeped as deep in sex as the human voice can go without drowning,” and her appetites were legion. One of the most memorable anecdotes was recounted by The New Yorker.
“A second-rank actor named John Emery, whom Tallulah had picked up on the summer circuit and, rather casually, married,. Emery was good-looking, capable, and amiable. Best of all, he bore a marked resemblance to John Barrymore, and not only in profile: years earlier, when Barrymore revealed himself to her in his dressing room, Tallulah had sworn to herself (and anyone within earshot) never to sleep with any man who wasn’t ‘hung like Barrymore,’ and went on to claim that she had stuck to her word. (Since she also claimed five hundred or more conquests, perhaps she wasn’t always so picky.) One of Tallulah’s party tricks was to escort guests to the master bedroom, fling back the covers from the bed in which Emery was sleeping, and crow, ‘Did you ever see a prick as big as that before?’”
06. Jayne Mansfield
More than any other actress in Hollywood history, Jayne Mansfield is likely more closely linked to glamorous and sensual moments, second only to Mae West. (Remember the picture where Sophia Loren was giving Mansfield’s obvious cleavage the side eye?). The blonde beauty was said to have been JFK’s mistress and had a long history of passionate relationships. However, her most well-known affiliation was with Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey. Mansfield was not above torturing the devoted Satanist, according to sources: “[His publicist] claimed that Mansfield would make fun of her Satanic suitor by calling him from her Los Angeles home and flirting sensually while her friends overheard the exchange. Mansfield, who made no secret of her numerous affairs, denied knowing LaVey intimately. . LaVey claims that he had an affair with Mansfield after she died in an automobile accident, and that he had placed a curse on her lover.
05. May West
Frank Wallace and Mae West were previously wed from 1911 to 1942.
Paul Novak (1956–1980), Gorilla Jones (1928), Guido Deiro (1914–1920), Anthony Quinn, Bugsy Siegel, Steve Cochran, and John Indrisano were among the people Mae West had romantic connections with.
04. Lupe Vélez
Lupe Vélez, the “Mexican spitfire,” is today best remembered for a series of odd urban legends that have sprung up in relation to her death. We have all heard that she died with her head in the toilet — suicide when her lover left and their child was coming, but actually found on the bed by her secretary.
Vélez began dating actor Gary Cooper, with whom she called the love of her life an estimated hundred times. However, she came to think of him as two-timing her and had accused Groban of an affair with actor Anderson Lawler, who was a client traveling in the U.S. Other stories have claimed that she allegedly used to “actually unzip Cooper’s pants at events, smelling his crotch and saying it smelled like Lawler.” Vélez was notorious for her on-screen exhibitionism; she was said to have had many lovers, and was also known for performing “lewd” acts (such as lifting her skirt overhead), some of which were rumored to be without any underwear. Nevertheless, these accounts were almost certainly sensationalized; Vélez was known to have cultivated publicity.
03. Clara Bow
Silent film “It” Clara Bow was one of Hollywood’s earliest sex-kittens, and definitely the most scandalously overt. But as this Hairpin piece laments, “when she retired in 1931 amid a skein of scandals, she was just 28 years old. But Bow was as enamored of old-fashioned romanticism — BELIEVED in it, boy did she believe—as anyone else. As the article puts it:
“Like many female stars of the time, [Bow] treated the boyfriends that she (most likely) slept with as ‘engagements.’ This led to a series of quickly formed and broken ‘engagements’ to the likes of Gary Cooper, the director Victor Fleming, and ‘Latin Lover’ Gilbert Roland. When she had a ‘case of nerves’ in the late ’20s, she was treated by a Hollywood doctor. She developed a crush on the doctor. When the doctor’s wife sued for divorce, she named Bow as cause for ‘alienation of affection.’ No good.”
No, great, but maybe unreasonable. There were other outrages that shaken Bow as well, most famously the allegation that she’d rested with the whole USC football group. Bow was also screwed over by her secretary, who stole her individual records and, at that point, endeavored to coercion the on-screen character in court by affirming all way of “consistent tipsiness [and] hook-ups.”
02 . Hattie McDaniel and Tallulah Bankhead
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, there was a group of lesbian or bisexual actresses that Marlene Dietrich called “Sewing Circle,” which is described in “The Girls: Sappho Goes Hollywood” by Diana McLellan. It depicts the alleged relationship between Dietrich and Greta Garbo, as well as pointing out that Tallulah Bankhead was known for her relationships with both men and women, including Hattie McDaniel and Patsy Kelly. McDaniel may not have had any other connections besides Bankhead. In fact, she married Howard Hickman, George Langford, James Lloyd Crawford and Larry Williams during her life.
01. Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck was most certainly bisexual, but she had relationships with Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, and William Holden in addition to having affairs with filmmaker Frank Capra and actor Robert Wagner, the author claims. The celebrity Robert Taylor, who later became her second husband, was her true love.
