Hottest Celebrity Couple From The Year That You Were Born

One of the earliest Hollywood scandals, Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini provoked outrage when they got together in 1949 due to the fact that they were both already married. Condemned by the vatican as 'a horrible example of womanhood,' Bergman was exiled from Hollywood, she moved to Italy when the couple wed in 1950.

Frank Sinatra left his wife Nancy for the famous femme fatale, with the two marrying in 1951. After six years of marriage they split, but in later life Gardner admitted that she never got over him. The two remained friends, despite the Hollywood star once saying it was like 'being with a woman'.

On-screen flames rather than IRL lovers, Lana Turner and Kirk Douglas were the hottest couple of 1953 thanks to their star turns in the second biggest box office hit of the year, The Bad And The Beautiful.

Another box-office couple, Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck were the biggest stars of 1954 thanks to their hit *Roman Holiday, *which earned newcomer Hepburn an Oscar. In fact, it was through her co-star that Hepburn met her husband, Mel Ferrer.

Audrey Hepburn married her first husband Mel Ferrer in 1954, and the couple had one son together, Sean Hepburn Ferrer. Constantly hounded by the tabloid press, with rumours that Ferrer was 'controlling', the couple eventually divorced in 1968.

Co-stars James Dean and Julie Harris lit up the screen in 1955's East of Eden, one of only three finished films by the cult actor. After his tragic death from a car accident before the film was released, his star went stratospheric, as did interest in the co-stars. Speaking later, Harris recalled: 'I loved him so much. I was not in love with him - I never felt a romantic attraction toward him - but I loved him terribly.'

One of the great Hollywood love stories of the 1950s, Hitchcock blonde Grace Kelly captured the heart of Monaco's ruler Prince Rainier II, with the actress giving up her career to marry him in 1956.

Married in 1956, Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe were Hollywood's undisputed golden couple - he was the talented playwright turned film maker, she was the pin-up with a heart of gold.

Perhaps the most successful marriage in Hollywood history, Paul Newman and Joanna Woodward were married for 50 years from 1958 until his death in 2008.

The stars of Hitchcockian classic North by Northwest, these two actors never officially became a couple, but were the most talked about of 1959 thanks to their on-screen chemistry.

After her engagement to Peter Townsend came to an end abruptly, Princess Margaret accepted the proposal of photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, who was from then on styled as Earl of Snowdon. The marriage was not a happy one, with the couple divorcing in 1978.

One of the most iconic couples of the 20th century, in 1961 Jackie Kennedy became the most stylish First Lady in history when her husband John became the President of the United States.

Swinging Sixties model Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey became the most famous partnership in fashion in the early 1960s, with their relationship reaching its apex in 1962 when both of their careers were at their height.

The two biggest stars of the folk music scene, Bob Dylan met Joan Baez in 1961, when the latter was already known as the 'Queen of Folk'. Fast-forward two years and they were performing duets together, with Dylan's career sky-rocketing.

Perhaps the most iconic couple of the 20th century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's tempestuous love story began in 1964, when the two wed for the first time. They would later go on to divorce and marry again, starring in 11 films together along the way.

Cher was just 16-years-old when she met 27-year-old Sonny, with the couple becoming friends before they transitioned into married lovers and finally one of the most famous pop duos of the Seventies. Married for a decade, their hits included 'I got you babe' and 'baby don't go'.

Mick Jagger pursued Marianne Faithfull from the moment he met her at a party, but the already-married future 'It' girl wasn't interested in the foul-mouthed musician's attempts at flirting. Fast-forward a few months and her first single was a song written by Jagger and fellow Rolling Stone Keith Richards and she had left her husband for the former, with the two going on to date for four years. They were together during the infamous Redlands drug bust, where Faithfull was found wearing nothing but a fur rug, according to myth, and stayed together after a suicide attempt in 1968. She would inspire one of the Stones most successful and enduring songs, 'Sympathy For The Devil'.

Elvis and Priscilla Presley's love story is well-known. The two met, when Priscilla was just 14, during a party at his home in Bad Nauheim in Germany, with the sex symbol reportedly becoming completely besotted with her immediately. Despite her parents initially banning them from dating, the two went on to marry in 1966, although their relationship was plagued by rumours of Elvis's infidelity. They divorced in 1973.

'I like a high-spirited woman. And with Anita, you knew you were taking on a Valkyrie—she who decides who dies in battle,' Keith Richards wrote in his 2010 autobiography Life. The long-term couple, who were equally as influential as Jagger and Faithfull in terms of their fashion sense, were together throughout the Sixties and Seventies, having three children together before eventually splitting in 1981 when Richards kicked his heroin addiction and Pallenberg didn't. Originally the romantic partner of Brian Jones, Anita Pallenberg is cited by many as the sixth member of the Rolling Stones, responsible for engineering the band's entire aesthetic and inspiring their music in a major way, and out-Keithing Keith.

While John Lennon and Yoko Ono had already been a famous couple since 1966, it was in 1969 that they truly became the hottest in the world, following their 'Bed-In' protest. Cited as a reason for the split of the Beatles in popular lore (the actual reasons being far more complex) they remained together until Lennon's murder in 1980.

The final year of their relationship was also the one that they were talked about the most. Married since 1966, when they met, their careers were both on the ascent, but by 1969 Gould's was in the decline while Streisand's was going from strength to strength following Funny Girl.

Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda became romantically involved when they starred in one of the biggest films of 1971, thriller Klute, with Sutherland reportedly falling head over heels in love with her. It wasn't to be though, as she was married to someone else just two years later.

Another musical couple, Carly Simon and James Taylor were at the peak of their fame in 1972, thanks in large part to their wedding and her hit single 'You're So Vain' (which she has repeatedly stressed was not written about him).

With a fiery relationship to rival Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw were the talk of the town when they wed in 1973. The two met when starring together in 1971's The Getaway, with MacGraw eventually giving up her acting career so that McQueen could have a 'normal' homelife aka a wife waiting for him with dinner.

Anjelica Huston succumbed to the 'wolf' of Hollywood Jack Nicholson in 1973, with the couple destined to spend the next 17 years together on and off. Despite Nicholson's near-constant humiliations - he left Huston at the Cannes Film Festival to flirt with French girls, and reportedly canoodled with Joni Mitchell while standing next to her - their companionship kept them together, although Huston did once beat him when she found out he had fathered a child with someone else.

On-again, off-again Fleetwood Mac couple Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham have been romantically linked since 1968. The band's big commercial success in 1975 with the release of their eponymous album catapulted their relationship into the spotlight, making them the hottest couple that year.

Farrah Fawcett and Lee Majors were undoubtedly one of the most famous couples of the 1970s, thanks in large part to the former's role on Charlie's Angels (and that iconic blonde flicked style). The couple begun dating in the 1960s, before marrying in 1973. They separated in 1979 and divorced in 1982.

Mick Jagger left first wife Bianca Jagger in 1977 for leggy Texan Jerry Hall, with Hall actually cited as the reason for their divorce in court papers. The two were together for 22 years, sharing four children. They wed in Bali in 1990, but the ceremony was not legally binding, which caused much furore on their split.

Diane Keaton became romantically involved with fellow actor Warren Beatty in 1978, with the veteran star casting her opposite him in 1980's Reds. Cracks began to appear after the film wrapped, and they separated shortly after.

In 1979, Pattie Boyd did the unthinkable: she left first husband George Harrison, who she had been married to since 1964, for his best friend and fellow musician, Eric Clapton. So how did the famous guitarist, nicknamed 'God', steal her? He wooed her in song, of course: namely his seminal hit 'Layla'.

At the height of her fame thanks to the release of *Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back *in 1980, Carrie Fisher eschewed other suitors for singer Paul Simon, who she dated on and off for a decade, culminating in a short-lived marriage in 1983.

Despite only meeting 13 times, Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales were married in a televised ceremony at Westminster Abbey in 1981, with Diana's Eighties-tastic dress being widely imitated afterwards. At the time, it was seen as the wedding of the century, but things soon turned sour after the birth of their two children, William and Harry, and they separated in 1992 before officially divorcing in 1996.

Joni Mitchell married her bassist Larry Klein in 1982, after the two met while recording her hit album 'Wild Things Run Fast'. He would go on to become her producer, even after they divorced in 1994.

Can you get a more Eighties couple than Sarah Jessica Parker and Robert Downey Jr? The two dated from 1983 to 1991, with Kiefer Sutherland moving in with them in 1989 just to top off their Eighties credentials.

Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn are one of the longest standing Hollywood couples and real #relationshipgoals. The two met while filming *The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band *in 1968, but started dating in 1984. They've been together ever since, but have chosen not to marry, and are often held up as proof that you don't need to for a successful partnership.

Sean Penn met Madonna in February 1985, with the two getting married on her birthday in August of the same year. Their tumultuous relationship was marred by violet outbursts against the press, with Penn arrested for assaulting a photographer. They divorced in 1989.

Paula Yates and Bob Geldof first got together when she was a fan of his band, Boomtown Rats, in 1976. After 10 years of dating, they married in 1986 in Las Vegas, having three daughters together: Fifi, Peaches and Pixie. As one of the most famous men of the 1980s thanks to Live Aid, the couple were constantly in the headlines.

One of Hollywood's longest standing couples until their divorce in 2000, Bruce Willis married Demi Moore in 1987 after meeting her at the premiere of his film Stakeout. The couple were two of the biggest stars of the decade, thanks to his roles in *Die Hard, Moonlighting and Look Who's Talking, *and hers in Ghost, St Elmo's Fire and About Last Night.

On her 20th birthday in 1987, actress Lisa Bonet eloped with musician Lenny Kravitz. By 1988, they were one of the world's coolest couples, welcoming their daughter Zoe in December. She says of Kravitz: 'It was interesting when we were first finding out about each other, that our backgrounds were so similar. When I first told him my mom was Jewish, and he said 'So's my dad,' I thought that was both unusual and enchanting. I felt like, 'Okay, here's someone who really knows how it is.''

Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp bonded over their matching cheekbones at the premiere of Great Balls Of Fire! in 1989, before filming Edward Scissorhands together in 1990. Constantly hounded by the press thanks to their status as two of the coolest stars of the era, the intrusion into her privacy took a toll on Winona, who was 9 years younger than Depp. Despite getting engaged just five months after meeting, they never wed, and split for good in 1993.

Formerly one of the most powerful couples in Hollywood, Tom Cruise married Australian actress Nicole Kidman in 1990 after meeting on the set of Days of Thunder the year before. They went on to co-star in Stanley Kubrick's last ever film, 2000's Eyes Wide Shut, but separated the same year.

Perhaps the quintessential early '90s couple, and definitely the reigning king and queen of grunge, Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love were married in Hawaii in 1991. Controversial from the get-go, with many of Cobain's friends taking a dislike to the outspoken singer, they made headlines when Vanity Fair suggested that Love had taken heroin while pregnant with their daughter Frances Bean. After Cobain's suicide in 1994, her band Hole went stratospheric, with their ironically named debut 'Live Through This'.

David Bowie knew Iman was the one from the moment he met her, telling Hello magazine in 2000, "'My attraction to her was immediate and all-encompassing. That she would be my wife, in my head, was a done deal. I'd never gone after anything in my life with such passion in all my life. I just knew she was the one.'

Remember when mega-star actor Richard Gere and supermodel Cindy Crawford were a thing in the '90s? The couple were married from 1991 to 1993, and were named 'World's Sexiest Couple' the same year.

Newly-crowned supermodel Kate Moss begun dating Hollywood rebel Johnny Depp in 1994, when she was 20 and he was 31. The two would go on to become the most stylish couple of the '90s, with tales of their debauchery becoming legendary (our favourite is that Depp ordered a champagne bath to be filled at the a West London hotel), but they split in 1998 for good after a series of public fights. Moss has said that she never got over the break-up.

Affectionately known as 'Ken and Em' in the British press, acting darlings Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson were the '90s equivalent of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, until their split in 1995 after his affair with Helena Bonham Carter.

With matching angelic looks and cropped blonde locks, Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Pitt were the hottest couple of 1996 in all meanings of the phrase.

If someone had told us in 1997 that new couple David Beckham and Victoria Adams would have become one of the most powerful in the world, we would have guffawed. After all, as a young, hot shot footballer for Man United and a world-famous pop-star, they were pretty predictable as a couple - with a pretty predictable sell-by date. Luckily, they've proven their doubters wrong, staying together for 20 years and counting.

A couple of years after dating Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow went on to be in a relationship with Ben Affleck until 2000. She's since said that they were completely unsuited, with the actor reportedly 'not ready' to settle down, 'He was not in a good place in his life to have a girlfriend.'

After meeting at her 21st birthday party, up-and-coming actors Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe wed their matching blonde locks and steely blue eyes in 1999. During their seven-year marriage they were in some of the biggest films of the period, from Cruel Intentions to Legally Blonde.

When America's TV sweetheart and Hollywood's hottest bachelor got married in 2000, it was a big deal, with the pictures splashed across front pages around the world. Set up by their agents in 1998, the unlikely couple dated for two years before marrying in Malibu. The much-loved pairing faltered in 2005 though, when Pitt left Aniston for his Mr and Mrs Smith co-star, Angelina Jolie.