# Lovers Destined to Be Together (Actors paired romantically in multiple roles) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 21, 2011, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418 "2011-01-21T04:24:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/1 "2011-01-21T04:24:40Z")
Just watching _Big Bang Theory_. Johnny Galecki’s character, Dr. Leonard Hofstader, has had a one-night stand with Sara Gilbert’s character Dr. Leslie Winkle. This is interesting because Galecki once played David Healy on _Roseanne_. David was of course the boyfriend (and then husband) of Darlene Connor, played by . . . Sara Gilbert. What other pairs of actors have played romantic couples in multiple roles? ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/2 "2011-01-21T05:31:41Z")
John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara made 5 films together. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/3 "2011-01-21T05:37:29Z")
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn made nine films together, and they played romantic partners in most of them. Of course, Tracy and Hepburn were off-screen lovers for decades, as well. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/4 "2011-01-21T07:27:42Z")
This is very common in Bollywood (Indian) movies, where an actor and actress will form a popular \*jodi \*(onscreen couple) and make several movies together. Some hook-up offscreen as well. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/5 "2011-01-21T07:56:50Z")
Although they never married or even dated, you’d be hard pressed to find a better match than Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon in “Mrs. Miniver”, “Madame Curie”, and others. [Here’s their first time on screen together.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv98kroJ9H8&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/6 "2011-01-21T09:03:30Z")
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in _Titanic_ and then about a decade later in _Revolutionary Road_. ---
**Author:** ![alenaroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7feea3/32.png) [@alenaroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alenaroo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/7 "2011-01-21T09:50:49Z")
Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/8 "2011-01-21T10:17:52Z")
And I just thought of Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn in _Seems Like Old Times_ and _Foul Play_. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/9 "2011-01-21T11:01:08Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Just watching _Big Bang Theory_. Johnny Galecki’s character, Dr. Leonard Hofstader, has had a one-night stand with Sara Gilbert’s character Dr. Leslie Winkle. > > This is interesting because Galecki once played David Healy on _Roseanne_. David was of course the boyfriend (and then husband) of Darlene Connor, played by . . . Sara Gilbert. > > What other pairs of actors have played romantic couples in multiple roles? Seeing as how this example is most likely (IMO) “just” a casting gag, what do you consider to be “fated” and not “just a casting gag”? For example, would a number of castings put it over the edge? Separation of time? Obscurity of a previous pairing? Format (since such things are easier with TV than with movies, for example)? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/10 "2011-01-21T12:58:18Z")
Fred and Ginger made 10 films together. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/11 "2011-01-21T13:50:01Z")
Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum were in three films together playing a couple and got married. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/12 "2011-01-21T13:58:01Z")
William Powell and Myrna Loy top the list: 6 thin Man movies but a total of 14 pairings in all. Also Andy Rooney and Judy Garland had many movies together. 9 Total. ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/13 "2011-01-21T14:17:47Z")
Nelson Eddy and Jeannette Macdonald made 8 films together. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton made 3 or 4. Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour made 7 “Road” pictures, (Zanzibar, Morocco, Singapore, Bali, Rio, Hong Kong, and the one where they went to Alaska). Unless I am forgetting one. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/14 "2011-01-21T15:00:19Z")
Bogart and Bacall. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/15 "2011-01-21T15:19:37Z")
I don’t care enough to look, but how many have Brangelina been in? (Mr & Mrs Smith, but it seems like there were others) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/16 "2011-01-21T15:21:24Z")
Woody Allen & Diane Keaton Steve Martin & Bernadette Peters had a couple, The Jerk and Pennies From Heaven ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/17 "2011-01-21T15:48:03Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Also Andy Rooney and Judy Garland had many movies together. 9 Total. I suspect you meant Mickey Rooney. 😉 Andy Rooney would give a completely different performance. “Didja ever notice how the kids in these movies always solve their problems by puttin’ on a musical? I don’t like musicals. No one really breaks into song like that.” ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/18 "2011-01-21T16:20:05Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I suspect you meant Mickey Rooney. 😉 Andy Rooney would give a completely different performance. > > “Didja ever notice how the kids in these movies always solve their problems by puttin’ on a musical? I don’t like musicals. No one really breaks into song like that.” :lol: Not the first time I did that either. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/19 "2011-01-21T16:25:55Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I suspect you meant Mickey Rooney. 😉 Andy Rooney would give a completely different performance. > > “Didja ever notice how the kids in these movies always solve their problems by puttin’ on a musical? I don’t like musicals. No one really breaks into song like that.” LOL. Mickey Rooney’s character was named Andy Hardy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418/20 "2011-01-21T17:18:43Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > Mickey Rooney’s character was named Andy Hardy. 😉 Good point! It makes **What Exit?**'s typo more understandable (though no less funny). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovers-destined-to-be-together-actors-paired-romantically-in-multiple-roles/568418.md?page=2)