Little-known celebrity relationships

A lot of these are widely known, but some aren't. Add your own.

CNN's Anderson Cooper is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt
SNL's Maya Rudolph is the daughter of 70's singer Minnie Ripperton
Singer Norah Jones is the daughter of sitarist Ravi Shankar
Shirley MacLaine is Warren Beatty's sister
Angelina Jolie is the daughter of Oscar winner Jon Voight


c'mon... add more.

__________????famous actress?

I've forgotten. :p

:dunce:

I shoulda included that one...

Cheney

Malcolm McDowell.

Weird.

I didn't know that!

father is Robert Thurman -buddhist scholar
Her godfather is Timothy Leary since her mother's first husband was Leary

nt

thanks... just fixed it.

Sometimes I don't know what the hell I'm thinking.....

:shrug:

They're brother and sister.

a cousin and stuff.

:shrug:

But, he's a cyclist. Shouldn't his name be Legstrong? :shrug:

Grovelbot is the illegitimate son of Elad and R2D2

:evilgrin:

on the same day

Richard Pershing was the grandson of BlackJack Pershing.

I heard that on NPR last week.

Jayne Mansfield

Peter Wolfe, formerly of The J. Geils Band.

Nicolas Cage is F.F. Coppola's newphew. But everyone knows that. I think.

freak....

USAID

They must have had some interesting discussions at night.


Speaking of NPR, Bob Edwards' wife is someone too, but I can't recal right now. Too wasted from work.

Christiane Amanpour is married to former undersecretary of state Jamie Rubin
Andrea Mitchell is married to Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan
Diane Sawyer is married to director Mike Nichols
Judy Woodruff is married to Al Hunt

that his sister-in-law is Mike Hunt-sister-in-law, right?

Patty Duke of Patty Duke Show fame, and the adopted son of John Astin, the original Gomez Addams.

It talked all about it in an article in Rolling Stone. Don't have a link handy though.

Sean is biological son of John Astin. John was married to another woman at the time of his conception, so perhaps he was forced to adopt Sean after marrying Patty Duke, but Sean is his son.

It was, however, rumored that Sean was the son of Desi Arnaz Jr., whom Patty dated for awhile.

Sean Astin (born February 25, 1971) is an actor, film director, and producer. He is the son of actors Patty Duke and John Astin (although his biological father is Michael Tell). At the time of his birth, it was assumed that his biological father was Desi Arnaz, Jr.

I've read about 4 other sites that say otherwise. I guess it's a MEEEStery.

Patty Duke was married to Michael Tell for about a day and a half. She's never admitted that Desi is Sean's dad, but the resemblance is there.

is Tippy Hedren's daughter.

Am I right on this one?

it's spelled "Tippi" but you're right.

and here's your prize:

The son of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.

Maybe that's not so "little known", but it was all I could come up with.

Terry

that James MacArthur of Hawaii 5-0 was the son of Helen Hayes.

n/t

is the father or grandfather of that bunch of Arquettes:grouphug:

good one.

:hi:

Who is Kay Winslet's mother.....a famous actress I'm told......

are the daughters of Vanessa Redgrave.

Danny Kaye and Sir Lawrence Olivier were lovers for many years. I know, boggles the mind, doesn't it? I don't have trouble imagining either of them as gay, just imagining them together.

Melissa Matheson, the wife whom Harrison Ford recently divorced, was the screenwriter for E.T..

the scary one was the reports that Martha Raye and Joan Crawford had an affair.

Why am I reminded of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" after you put that hideous thing in my head?

Dick Stockton

and the half-sister of actress Joely Fischer (who is the daughter of Connie Stevens)

BTW... this means that Elizabeth Taylor was Carrie Fischer's stepmother.

of 60's icon Edie Sedgwick and Kyra is married to Kevin Bacon, who is six-degrees away from everyone in the entire world.

(drum roll please)...

...Goldie Hawn.

a really lame group in the '70s

and Super Dave Osborne are brothers.

really?

And Albert Brooks' real name is Albert Einstein. I crap you negative.
John
Nothing on relationships, but FDR/Truman's Sec'y of State Dean Acheson and Cole Porter were college roommates. As were Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones, of course.

I would NEVER have guessed that! :D

http://www.geocities.com/no_squeak/daves/osborne.html


<----I think Super Dave is the tall one in the back....?

He was a radio comedian who died right after finishing his routine at a Friars Roast honoring Lucille Ball and Desin Arnaz.

* and Root Boy Slim were frat brothers and both in Skull and Bones.


for those too young, old, or unhip, Root Boy Slim was a very strange punk rock star who billed himself as "Root Boy Slim and The Sex Change Band"

.... I believe he died in the late 80s. He created such hits as "Dare to be Fat" :)

Punk Czar or something....

(You broke my)Mood Ring was his biggest hit, I believe. Or maybe Boogie Til You Puke.

Ahhhhh, the fond memories.

Do you remember his real name?

No googling.

answer mouse over... Foster MacKenszie III

and Jimmy Swaggart are cousins.

:eyes: It'll come to me in a day or two. I remember he sang.

muttering...*I am not senile, I am not senile...* :)

is the brother of the lead guy in the band Fuel.

(Filter.) ;) :)

:hi:

They are also....(lemme get this right...)

My grandmother's mother's sister's daughters. Or maybe sister's daughter's daughters...something like that, anyway. :D

is the daughter of Natalie Wood and her second husband Richard Gregson. (Natalie's real name was Natasha Gurdin).

:hi:

Another good 'un!

Jane Pauly is married to Gary Trudeau
Olivia DeHaviland and Joan Fontaine were sisters

is the daughter of Vic Morrow, the actor who died while filming The Twilight Zone movie.

Mia Farrow is the daughter of Maureen O'Sullivan ("Jane" in the Tarzan movies.)
When she was in her late teens or early twenties, Mia was briefly married to Frank Sinatra. Before moving in with Woody Allen (and we all know how that turned out), she was married to pianist and conductor Andre Previn.

The late Robert Urich (Spenser) was married to Heather Menzies, who played the second-oldest daughter in The Sound of Music.

Speaking of The Sound of Music, actress Amanda Plummer, whose best known role is that of the girlfriend of the retarded messenger (can't remember the character's name, but the actor was Larry Drake) on L.A. Law, is the daughter of Christopher Plummner, who played Captain von Trapp.

Speaking of L.A. Law, Jilll Eikenberry and Michael Tucker are married in real life.

Before her marraige, Meryl Streep lived with actor John Cazale, who was in both The Deer Hunter and Dog Day Afternoon. This relationship lasted until he died of cancer.

Anne Bancroft is married to Mel Brooks.

Jessica Lange currently lives with playwright Sam Shepard, but before that, she lived with dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, and they have a daughter together.

There are persistent rumors that Cary Grant and Randolph Scott were lovers. There are persistent rumors that Marlene Dietrich was lovers with just about everyone, male and female, in Hollywood.

Mary Crosby (of Dallas) is the daughter of Bing Crosby.

The bubble gum rock group Dino, Desi, and Billy was Dean Martin's son, the son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and one other guy whose parents weren't famous.

Olivia Hussey ("Juliet" in the 1968 film of Romeo and Juliet) was briefly married to Japanese pop singer Akira Fusé.

Should I be a gossip columnist or what?

good ones!

Also... Matthew Broderick's dad was actor James Broderick.

was also married to Ryan O'Neal.


Mia Farrow's sister Prudence is who the Beatles song "Dear Prudence" is written about. She was meditating in a hut and didn't come out for several days. It was John's way of trying to coax her out.

Prudence was also a waitress in the diner where the comics hung out in "Broadway Danny Rose". Of course, in both "Hannah and Her Sisters" and "Deconstructing Harry" Allen wrote about schtupping his wife's siter but that is probably fiction ;).

Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power were lovers. Errol Flynn and (insert name here) were lovers.

Desi Arnaz and Patty Duke were married briefly.

Joan Fontaine and Olivia Dehavilland were sisters. They did not speak.

Barbara Streisand was married to Elliot Gould and they have a son who acted in "Prince of Tides".

Supposably...on the cast of "Giant", James Dean had affairs with both Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor and used to play them off against each other to the chagrin of everyone else on the set.

Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas was engaged to Dennis Hopper.

Paul McCartney's long time model girlfriend Jane Asher was the sister of one of the guys in the English pop duo "Peter and Gordon". Peter was Peter Asher.

Desi Arnaz never married Patty Duke.

Patty Duke did, however, date Desi Arnaz JUNIOR, but they never wed. It was widely rumored that Sean Astin was the son of Desi junior, but he was in fact the son of John Astin (despite what was posted above).


And I can't find anything that says Ryan O'Neal was married to Olivia Hussey.

she was actually married to Dean Paul Martin, son of Dean Martin.

I did that on purpose to throw you off the track.

And you are correct, the 24 year old Duke and the 17 year old Desi were not allowed to wed by Lucille Ball.

But Laura Bush IS married to Satan.

you're right on the last one.

And yes, I remember reading how Lucy put the kibosh on Desi Jr.'s wedding to Patty Duke.

she never married Dean Paul Martin, either.

Fibbing's not allowed in this thread.

Olivia Hussey website they were married.

He also was married to ice skater Dorothy Hamel. Believe he was divorced from both when he died in a plane crash.

Mimi Rogers

I wonder if that turned him gay?

?

Yep, she's married to Mel Brooks. Go figure.

had a tumultuous affair on a barge down the Seine.

He always kept it quiet for obvious reasons.

Laura Bush is married to Satan

I know this because Jeanne Tripplehorn is from Tulsa ( her dad is a well-known jazz guitarist here - Tommy ) and she had some wild wedding here.

Jeanne Tripplehorn is married to Leland Orser ( you've seen him, but you don't know where - http://www.sidekickmagazine.com/apr01/character.html)

Leland Orser was married before to Roma Downey ( Touched by an Angel)

Roma Downey then married David Angspaugh ( director of "Rudy", "Hoosiers" and a lot of other stuff)...they are now divorced.

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all the people who responded to the question.

Welcome to DU. I'll miss you.

He's had roles in over a hundred movies/tv shows, although he's not exactly the leading man type. You may remember him from one of his early roles--in "The Corbomite Maneuver"--Star Trek!

And he was the last one to receive the Lifetime Achievement award on the MTV Movie Awards. He's also been in every one of Ron's movies.
Duckie

Stephanie Zimbalist is the daughter of Efrem Zimbalist Jr (who
remembers 77 Sunset Strip?)

Blossom Rock, who played Grandma in the Addams Family TV Series
was the elder sister of Jeanette MacDonald, who was the on-screen
and off-screen lover of Nelson Eddy.

Drew Barrymore is the grand-daughter of John Barrymore, and the
niece of Lionel and Ethel Barrymore.

She was his stepmother and her sons were Patrick Cassidy and Shawn Cassidy.

its just ego inbreeding.:spank:

was married to Hollywood writer Garson Kanin. They wrote the script to "Adam's Rib" together, and were married for forty three years.

Yes I'm plugging my own post.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=755271

2nd or 3rd cousins or something......

and no one posted on David Bloom, the journalist who died in Iraq last year. I've read some of his on-line biographies, but none has the information I'm looking for - who were his parents? I'm sure I saw a TV show a few years ago that mentioned he was related to a famous acress, ason?,a nephew? Anyone know?

and the maternal grandson of comedian Jackie Gleason. He was born as Jason Patric Miller.

She's married to musician Michael Penn.

is the daughter of Charlie Chaplin and the granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill.

Hayley Mills and Juliet Mills are sisters and the daughters of British actor John Mills.

is the son of Mr. Green Jeans from "Captain Kangaroo."

Bwaahaahaa ... sorry, I couldn't resist. One of my favorite urban legends ... that bogus story swept my junior high in the early '70s.

OK, a real one. Actor Troy Garrity is the son of Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden.

Jason Schwartzman ("Rushmore") is the son of Talia Shire, nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, cousin to Nick Cage and Sofia Coppola ...

is the cousin of George Clooney. Son of Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney, George's aunt.

of "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Dallas" fame is Mary Martin's son. (She was a famous actress who is best known for playing Peter Pan on stage and in film, for those of you who are much younger than I.)

Mary Martin was a major Broadway musical actress in the 1940s and 1950s.

She was the first Nelly in South Pacific and the first Maria in The Sound of Music in the original Broadway productions.

Speaking of original cast members, Carol Lawrence, the first Maria in West Side Story, was married to Robert Goulet.

As a young man in Kansas City, Truman became a fan
of the zany brothers as they came through town in their
vaudeville tours. Later, as President, he corresponded with
Groucho and Harpo, but the relationship was not all jokes and laughs.
The Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, MO, reveals their correspondence.