# On screen couples who are (or were) real couples too. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 18, 2015, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872 "2015-11-18T07:27:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/61 "2015-11-18T23:47:35Z")
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard! ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/62 "2015-11-18T23:52:48Z")
Barbara Bain and Martin Landau. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/63 "2015-11-18T23:53:14Z")
The stuntman and stuntwoman who’d been working on MAD MAX: FURY ROAD got hitched and had a kid: [“The longer we were doing it the more we’re kind of eyeing each other up. We’ve said it before and it’s quite cheesy, but it really was love at first sight. While we were punching each other we were falling for each other – quite rapidly.”](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/mad-max-fury-road/stunt-doubles-married/) ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/64 "2015-11-19T00:11:17Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > BTW, the Galecki/Cuoco thing is widely considered to have been fake. Much like Galecki/Gilbert. All gay and/or beards? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/65 "2015-11-19T01:41:40Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Stana Katic and Nathan Fillion from _Castle_ dated several years ago. Some think this has lead to the current weirdness in the show, with them not appearing together much (or even appearing in an episode at all). But they supposedly broke up in 2012 and the problem got bad only this season. > > BTW, the Galecki/Cuoco thing is widely considered to have been fake. Much like Galecki/Gilbert. I haven’t heard anything about either of these assertions. Where did you hear all this? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/66 "2015-11-19T04:53:52Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > Charles Laughton and his wife Elsa Lanchester were often in the same movie but not necessarily a couple. Some of them (“The Big Clock”, “Witness for the Prosecution”) have them as antagonists. Similarly, Julie London and Bobby Troup were married while starring together in _Emergency_, but weren’t a couple in the show. In fact, I believe the idea was to have a romantic angle between Nurse McCall (London) and Dr. Brackett. ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/67 "2015-11-19T06:01:29Z")
> [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#): > > All gay and/or beards? I know that Sara Gilbert is gay; I haven’t heard anything credible to suggest that Galecki is. ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/68 "2015-11-19T06:03:34Z")
Also, since no one else has mentioned them (or, possibly, I’m the only one here who watches the show), Elyes Gabel and Katherine McPhee from _Scorpion_. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/69 "2015-11-19T06:27:00Z")
Elvis Presley and, apparently, every leading lady he ever had, most enviably the young Ann-Margret. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/70 "2015-11-19T07:23:30Z")
Steven Seagal and Kelly LeBrock Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor Hey, has Kevin Bacon been in anything with Kyra Sedgwick? Kind of ironic if he hasn’t… ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/71 "2015-11-19T07:37:49Z")
I was watching _Quincy_ when I remembered that when Jack Klugman played Oscar on _The Odd Couple_, his wife Brett Somers played Oscar’s ex-wife, Blanche. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/72 "2015-11-19T09:50:42Z")
Patty Duke and John “Gomez Addams” Astin. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/73 "2015-11-19T12:38:33Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > Hey, has Kevin Bacon been in anything with Kyra Sedgwick? Kind of ironic if he hasn’t… Of course, and good call: [Pyrates](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102733/) starred Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick as lovers who accidentally set things on fire during sex. (Watch out for those candles!) I thought maybe that’s the movie they met on, but googling shows they’d already been together for a few years. They first met years earlier when Bacon was 19 and Sedgwick was 12 (ick!) but didn’t spark up a romance until they were both in their 20s on the set of Lemon Sky. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/74 "2015-11-19T12:56:06Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > Of course, and good call: > > [Pyrates](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102733/) starred Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick as lovers who accidentally set things on fire during sex. (Watch out for those candles!) > > I thought maybe that’s the movie they met on, but googling shows they’d already been together for a few years. They first met years earlier when Bacon was 19 and Sedgwick was 12 (ick!) but didn’t spark up a romance until they were both in their 20s on the set of Lemon Sky. Their characters also slept together in THE WOODSMAN, for which Bacon should’ve gotten an Oscar nomination. (Uh, not for sleeping with her; the other stuff.) ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/75 "2015-11-19T18:40:11Z")
Delta Burke and Gerald McRaney met on the set of **Designing Women**. There’s a lovely outtake where the characters are kissing on the stairs, and Delta blushes and says, “I forgot my next line” and Gerald grins sheepishly and pulls her close. In fact, Designing Women had three IRL couples, Delta/Gerald, Dixie Carter/Hal Holbrook, and Jean Smart/Richard Gilliland. Kirstie Alley and Parker Stevenson were on **John Jakes North and South** (now divorced), as were Genie Francis and Jonathan Frakes and James Read and Wendy Kilbourne (both couples still married.) ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/76 "2015-11-19T19:42:14Z")
> [@Reluctant\_A](#): > > I know that Sara Gilbert is gay; I haven’t heard anything credible to suggest that Galecki is. Sarah Gilbert spoke at length on The Talk about dating Galecki before coming out. The two are still very good friends; in fact, she called him before the reveal to see if he was OK with it, since “it doesn’t make him look too good [in the sexual sense].” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/77 "2015-11-19T19:58:51Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > BTW, the Galecki/Cuoco thing is widely considered to have been fake. Much like Galecki/Gilbert. Only by those who think he isn’t masculine enough to be straight. > [@Reluctant\_A](#): > > I know that Sara Gilbert is gay; I haven’t heard anything credible to suggest that Galecki is. It’s not like there is a rule saying your sexuality can’t be fluid. Especially when you are young. Galecki is a private person who doesn’t advertise his sex life. Because he comes across as not very manly rumors went around that he was gay despite the fact that he has only been seen dating women despite how hard the tabloids have worked at it. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkhYxIPfTuk) he answers the question. I believe him. He doesn’t think there is anything to be ashamed of if he was gay so why would he deny it. With the caliber of women he has been with I should be so gay. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/78 "2015-11-19T21:08:34Z")
> [@Reluctant\_A](#): > > Also, since no one else has mentioned them (or, possibly, I’m the only one here who watches the show), Elyes Gabel and Katherine McPhee from _Scorpion_. I did not know that, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/79 "2015-11-19T21:35:22Z")
Drew Barrymore and Justin Long. Warren Beatty and Annette Benning met filming Bugsy. Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer met on Tru Blood and are still married with twins I believe. Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn in Overboard. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-screen-couples-who-are-or-were-real-couples-too/737872/80 "2015-11-20T02:16:53Z")
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