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Great Romances of the 20th Century — Storyline
From the fairytale romance of the Prince and the showgirl, to the King who renounced his throne for love, , these are some of the greatest love stories ever told.
Cast & Crew
Great Romances of the 20th Century — Series Details
| First Air Date | 1997-01-26 |
| Seasons | 3 |
| Episodes | 78 |
| Genre | series |
| Language | English |
| Status | Returning Series |
Great Romances of the 20th Century — Episode Guide
Season 1
- E1: Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier (1997-01-26) — He was the playboy prince and she was the cool blonde showgirl. It was the wedding of the decade as the ancient principality of Monaco was besieged by fans and the media circus, bu
- E2: Jackie Kennedy and JFK (1997-02-02) — Jackie Bouvier's marriage to JFK sealed a high profile political relationship but there was far more to Jackie than a dutiful wife coping with her husband's philanderings.
- E3: Aristotle Onassis and Maria Callas (1997-02-09) — He was a powerful Greek shipping tycoon and she was the greatest opera singer of her time. The charismatic Onassis was enthralled by the diva, and Maria soon fell headlong into a t
- E4: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard (1997-02-16) — The matinee idol and the funny lady made a devoted couple, but a tragic accident killed Carole Lombard and destroyed Gable's life.
- E5: Juan and Evita Peron (1997-02-23) — Was it simply love for Juan Peron, or burning ambition, that set Evita on the road from rags to riches and corruption to become Argentina's First Lady?
- E6: Winston and Clementine Churchill (1997-03-02) — An enduring love match between two intelligent, forceful personalities gave great strength to one of Britains finest leaders.
- E7: Greta Garbo and John Gilbert (1997-03-09) — The enigmatic actress was swept off her feet by the charming, silent star, but both their careers were almost destroyed when he took on Hollywood's mightiest moguls.
- E8: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun (1997-03-16) — Rare archive film taken at his Bavarian idyll at Berchtesgarten exposes Hitler's highly secret romance with Eva Braun whose photograph album has been recently discovered.
- E9: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor (1997-03-23) — They were Hollywood's greatest on and off screen romance – a flamboyant couple that could neither live with nor without one another. They were married and divorced twice but, even
- E10: Edward and Mrs Simpson (1997-03-30) — He was the uncrowned King of England, and as such was forbidden to marry a Catholic. She was an American divorcee, and an adherent of the forbidden faith. In a scandal that could h
- E11: Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (1997-04-06) — They were two of the biggest stars of stage and screen, and when they met both were already married. Their affair was passionate and stormy, but survived the pressures of stardom a
- E12: Nicholas and Alexandra (1997-04-13) — Archive film reveals the private moments of a remote royal family. Theirs was a union that was beset by tragedy, war and revolution. Alexandra's faith kept her strong, but her loya
- E13: Amelia Earhardt and George Puttnam (1997-04-20) — A fascinating insight into the life of the American female aviator who disappeared on her round the world flight. But without adventurer and publisher, George Palmer Puttnam, she m
- E14: King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia (1997-04-27) — He was a handsome monarch without a throne and she was a pretty Greek princess. Their wedding was a grand affair attended by most of the European royal families, but much of their
- E15: George Vi and the Queen Mother (1997-05-04) — Greeted by an uncertain public following his brother, Edward VIII's abdication, George VI and his beautiful young wife Mary, went on to become an inspiration to the nation during W
- E16: Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini (1997-05-11) — The beautiful Swedish actress won the hearts of Hollywood, but at the height of her fame an illicit affair with the Italian film director Roberto Rossellini shocked the world and a
- E17: Howard Hughes and Ava Gardner (1997-05-18) — She was a sultry sex goddess and he was a multi-millionaire playboy, aircraft designer, part-time movie producer and reclusive eccentric. Of all of the beautiful women in the world
- E18: De Gaulle and Yvonne Vendroux (1997-05-25) — In public he was aloof and intimidating. In private he was romantic and emotional. Theirs was a marriage which was to survive war, exile and heartbreak. Throug it all, the enduring
- E19: Charles and Oona Chaplin (1997-06-01) — At 54, the former star of the Silent Screen was recovering from a breakdown after being accused of communism when he met the 18 year old daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill. Afte
- E20: Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn (1997-06-08) — The writer met his match in one of America's most respected and daring war correspondents during the Spanish civil war. Hemingway's third wife only left him when he grew intolerant
- E21: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (1997-06-15) — It was a magical first meeting, which led to the White House. Eleanor Roosevelt was the woman who defined the role of America's First Lady, as she supported and cared for her husba
- E22: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall (1997-06-22) — It was almost love at first sight when the moody tough guy played opposite a young, beautiful actress called Lauren Bacall.
- E23: William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies (1997-06-29) — His influence changed American history but Randolf Hearst may have been manipulated by his mistress Marion Davies, the woman who loved the real Citizen Kane.
- E24: Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio (1997-07-06) — He was America's baseball legend and she was the most famous actress in Hollywood. It was a whirlwind romance, but the pressures of fame would eventually wreck Marilyn's private li
- E25: Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford (1997-07-13) — In the 1920s, Fairbanks and Pickford were the uncrowned King and Queen of Hollywood and held court in the Californian mansion they named Pickfair. When they married and created the
- E26: Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth (1997-07-20) — The press dubbed them 'Beauty and the Brain'. Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth were a remarkable pairing of opposites, the man who made 'Citizen Kane' and the siren who set the scree
Season 2
- E1: Jean Harlow and William Powell — Jean Harlow and William Powell the blonde bombshell meets the thin man, a movie partnership that set the screen alight. But was Harlow's tragic early death related to their romance
- E2: Ronald and Nancy Reagan — From the B-hive to the White House. Behind Ronnie's easy charm lay Nancy's steely determination. It pushed the future President every step of the way to the most important job in t
- E3: Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy — Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, theirs was one of the greatest Hollywood romances, a remarkable meeting of opposites. The deep feeling Hepburn and Tracy had for each other is
- E4: Gloria Swanson and Joseph Kennedy — Gloria Swanson and Joseph Kennedy, the clash of two huge personalities sent shockwaves through Wall Street and Hollywood. Their torrid romance led to the filming of one of Hollywoo
- E5: Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli — Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, she was one of MGM's most luminous stars. He was one of its most brilliant directors. The union of two flamboyant talents produced a third: Liza
- E6: Gloria and James Stewart — Gloria and James Stewart; are one of the legendary love matches in Hollywood history. Stewart was the all-American boy – movie star and war hero – whose marriage reflected the titl
- E7: Cary Grant and Barbara Hutton — Cary Grant and Barbara Hutton, beneath the suavely handsome exterior of one of Hollywood's most desirable leading men lay a deeply troubled soul. The dark side of Cary Grant was to
- E8: Pier Angeli and James Dean — James Dean lived fast and died young. The unhappy Pier Angeli was to live on, but she was never the same after her romance with the rebel without a cause.
- E9: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans — Amiable range warbler Roy Rogers lived by the cowboy code – he never took advantage or slugged anyone smaller than himself. Dale Evans was the B-movie consort who joined noble stee
- E10: Rudolph Valentino and Natasha Rambova — He was the Great Lover of the Silent Screen, she was the self-created exotic who fashioned his career. Neither partner in this remarkable marriage was quite what he or she seemed.
- E11: George Burns and Gracie Allen — George Burns and Gracie Allen were two of America's best-loved vaudeville and movie stars who capped dazzling careers by making it big in television. After Gracie's death, the laco
- E12: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz — Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Like Desi, all of America loved Lucy, the RKO contract player who eventually gained the TV clout to buy the studio where she had started her movie care
- E13: Rex Harrison and Lili Palmer — Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer; to his fans he was 'Sexy Rexy', the greatest high comedy actor of his generation. To his six wives, Rex Harrison cut a more ambivalent figure, someti
- E14: Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer — Hepburn was a bewitching elfin spirit in Fifties Hollywood, Ferrer the handsome leading man she married and with whom she co-starred in 'War and Peace'.
- E15: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow — Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow; The Dust Bowl bandits whose blood-splattered folie à deux became a depression legend and the basis for Arthur Penn's Oscar-winning movie. They loved
- E16: Roberto Arias and Margo Fonteyn — He was the Panamanian diplomat crippled by a would-be assassin, she was the world's best loved prima-ballerina who formed a legendary partnership with Rudolf Nureyev.
- E17: Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip — When the English princess married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, son of Prince Andrew of Greece and a great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria, at Westminster Abbey on 20 November 19
- E18: King Hussein and Queen Noor of Jordan — A marriage which survived the turbulent politics of the Middle East. Known to his people as Al-Malik Al-Insan (The Humane King), King Hussein guided his country through strife and
- E19: Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni — Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni, the French 'ice maiden' and the Italian heart-throb had one of the most secret romances of the modern glitterati.
- E20: Howard Hawks and Slim Keith — One of the most glamorous couples of the Golden Era of Hollywood – the greatest of studio directors and his shrewd fashion editor wife who brought Lauren Bacall to the attention of
- E21: Charles and Anne Lindberg — He was the most celebrated aviator of the age and she was the daughter of a wealthy diplomat. Their marriage saw flying triumphs and personal tragedy when the kidnapping of their b
- E22: John Wayne and Marlene Dietrich — One of Hollywood's unlikeliest star couples – the Ringo Kid meets Lola – who had a passionate affair in the star-spangled Forties.
- E23: David O Selznick and Jennifer Jones — David O Selznick and Jennifer Jones. After the sensational triumph of Gone with the Wind, master-producer David O Selznick spent much of his latter days in Hollywood promoting the
- E24: Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor — Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor; together they seemed one of Hollywood's Golden Couples. Barbara Stanwyck was one of its greatest leading ladies; Robert Taylor was MGM's longest
- E25: Richard and Pat Nixon — Richard and Pat Nixon from the Chequers speech to Richard Nixon's traumatic resignation from the office of President, Pat travelled with her husband every step of the way. Inevitab
- E26: Jimmy and Roslyn Carter — Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter reviled by many Americans when Jimmy stepped down from the Presidency, the Carters have become one of the most affectionately regarded couples in American
Season 3
- E1: Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood — Two of the most handsome stars of the 1950s who fell in, out of, and in love again. Their nine-year second marriage was cut tragically short by a boating accident.
- E2: John Lennon and Yoko Ono — He was an icon of popular music; she was one of the most avant garde performance artists of the Sixties. Their union was one of mind, body, and spirit. Yoko was accused of breaking
- E3: Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay — The romance between the massively-cantilevered star and her champion muscleman was one of the most oddball stories of Hollywood.
- E4: Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay — The romance between the massively-cantilevered star and her champion muscleman was one of the most oddball stories of Hollywood.
- E5: Claire Bloom and Rod Steiger — Claire Bloom shot to fame as a beautiful but paralysed young girl in 'Limelight'. Her marriage to one of the greatest method actors of his generation lasted through a turbulent dec
- E6: Gilda Radner and Gene Wilder — When two of Hollywood's zaniest comic talents were married, it seemed like the start of a great movie partnership, but cancer claimed Gilda after five short years.
- E7: John and Bo Derek — John Derek was one of the most handsome leading men of the fifties but he never became a major star, perhaps because he was always in the shadow of his first wife, Ursula Andress.
- E8: JFK Junior and Carolyn Bessette — The ill-starred Kennedy family suffered another in a long line of tragedies when an air crash ended the seemingly glamorous marriage between JFK's heir and his beautiful PR girl wi
- E9: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward — They are two of Hollywood's most successful actors. Their careers span several decades, as does their marriage, an antidote to cynics who claim that genuine romance cannot flourish
- E10: Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland — He was one of cinema's greatest action heroes, who waited 30 years to achieve stardom. He was happily married to British-born actress Jill Ireland until her death after a long batt
- E11: Shirley Temple and Charles Black — Since 1950, former child star and diplomat Shirley Temple has been married to businessman Charles Black. In contrast to most child stars who prove unable to grow up, her adult life
- E12: Dorothy Dandridge and Otto Preminger — He was the 'director from hell' who turned the fiery nightclub entertainer into a star in Carmen Jones. Their romance was passionate, stormy – and doomed.
- E13: Henry and Shirlee Fonda — Hollywood patriarch Henry Fonda was five times married and often at odds with his equally stellar children. But his romance with Shirlee proved in a rock in a stormy private life.
- E14: Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh — In the early fifties it was hard to decide who was prettier – the dashing star of Some Like It Hot and countless Universal hokum adventures, or his beautiful wife, who was famously
- E15: Fernando Lamas and Esther Williams — The romance between Latin lover Fernando and the million-dollar mermaid Esther Williams has recently been richly chronicled in her best-selling autobiography.
- E16: Beety Grable and Harry James — She had the million-dollar legs and he was the man with the golden trumpet. Theirs was one of the most long-lived of Hollywood's marriages.
- E17: Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville — Alfred Hitchcock remains an enduring figure of fascination for movie buffs and his marriage to fellow Briton Alma Reville gives an intriguing insight into the master director's cha
- E18: Oleg Cassini and Gene Tierney — When one of the most beautiful leading ladies from Hollywood's heyday married the doyen of New York fashion, a glittering future beckoned. But their hopes of happiness were dashed
- E19: Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester — Theirs was one of the most touching and adult relationships in Hollywood, which survived the tortured emotional life of one of Britain's greatest actors.
- E20: Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Joan Crawford — He was a Hollywood prince. She was a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who clawed her way to the top, like the heroine of so many of her movies.
- E21: John Huston and Evelyn Keyes — Huston was one of Hollywood's greatest directors and libertines – but he met his match in feisty actress and former chorus dancer, Evelyn Keyes. Their stormy relationship lasted fo
- E22: Gary Merrill and Bette Davis — For a brief period, Gary Merrill basked in the shadow cast by one of Hollywood's greatest divas. The tensions this caused inevitably doomed the marriage.
- E23: Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev — The world was genuinely moved when the former Soviet first lady died of leukaemia. Raisa had stood by her husband's side throughout an extraordinary career which changed the face o
- E24: Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft — Mel Brooks married Oscar-winning actress Anne Bancroft in 1964. Although she was Mel's second wife, and he was her second husband, their love was meant to last and they have been t
- E25: Dashiel Hammett and Lillian Hellman — The romance between these two rebel American writers spanned 30 years, during which time they created some of the great literary works of the 20th Century. Together they fought for
- E26: Candice Bergen and Louis Malle
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does Great Romances of the 20th Century have? 3 season(s) with 78 episodes.
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