LOVE & MARRIAGE

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The number of marriages entered into by Chopin, Casanova, Gershwin, Sartre, Descartes, Kant, Nietzsche and Larkin. In other words, they couldn’t muster up a single marriage between them.

1

The number of days the marriage of Eva Bartok and William Wordsworth lasted (in fact, it was less than one day: it was just after the wedding ceremony).

1

The number of days the marriage of Zsa Zsa Gabor and Felipe De Alba lasted.

1

The number of months the marriage of Burt Lancaster and June Ernst lasted.

3

The number of months the marriage of Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley lasted.

4

The number of months the marriage of Joanna Lumley and Jeremy Lloyd lasted.

4

The number of days the marriage of Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine lasted.

6

The number of days the marriage of John Heard and Margot Kidder lasted.

6

The number of times Sir Rex Harrison married.

6

The number of times Gloria Swanson married.

7

The number of times Lana Turner married.

7

The number of times Richard Pryor married (twice to two of his wives).

7

The number of times Stan Laurel married (three times to the same woman).

7

The number of times Claude Rains married.

8

The number of times Dame Elizabeth Taylor married – twice to the same man: Richard Burton.

8

The number of times Mickey Rooney married.

8

The number of times Alan Jay Lerner married.

8

The number of times Artie Shaw married.

9

The number of times Victor Hugo – previously a virgin – had sex on his wedding night.

9

The number of times Pancho Villa married.

9

The number of days the marriage of Cher and Gregg Allman lasted.

9

The number of months the marriage of Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio lasted.

9

The number of times Zsa Zsa Gabor married.

11

The number of months the marriage of Helen Hunt and Hank Azaria lasted.

11

The number of months the marriage of Paul Simon and Carrie Fisher lasted.

17

The number of years younger Raymond Chandler was than his wife, Pearl Bowen.

17

The number of years younger Clark Gable was than his first wife, Josephine Dillon.

32

The number of years older Joan Collins is than her husband, Percy Gibson.

56

The number of times Richard and Carol Roble re-married each other.

67

The number of years the world’s longest engagement lasted for. Octavio Guillen and Adriana Martinez were 15 when they got engaged.

104

The number of women that the bigamist Giovanni Vigliotto married in 14 different countries between 1949 and 1981.

9,000

The number of wives of King Mongut of Siam. He was quoted as saying he only loved the first 700.

10,000

The number of women that Maigret author Georges Simenon claimed to have slept with.