Happy together: The strongest kinoduets
This week, the romcom "Mixed" was released, in which Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler fall in love with each other on the screen for the third time. We believe that they are equal to the best, and we remember the golden debuts in the history of cinema.
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Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni
1. "Marriage in Italian", 1964.
They appeared on the screen in a dozen different combinations, sometimes changing roles even within the same picture. A dealer in contraband cigarettes and the exhausted father of her seven children; a dummy on a Rolls-Royce and her modest lover; a Roman prostitute and a client burning with lust — three stories, three lives fit into one comedy ("Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow"). In total, the main European duo appeared in 13 films. One archbishop expressed a comic wish to make a clone of Sophia Loren, turning a blind eye to the Vatican's disapproving attitude to the process. The idea is good, but it would be necessary to clone both at once.
Kajol and Shah Rukh Khan
2. "Both in sorrow and in joy", 2001.
"We are building relationships, but God creates some of them," the dying father blesses the union of his only daughter and his beloved disciple ("God created this couple"). She has not yet recovered from the death of her fiance. He is in love, but he is afraid to admit it and the remaining 2.5 hours before the final will think about how to live with it. However, if Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, the golden duo of Bollywood, are starring, the audience knows: a happy ending is inevitable. They have played together more than ten times, and it's even strange that in life they are still just friends.
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
3. "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?", 1966.
He called her a "twittering fool", a "little pain" and the most beautiful woman in the world. She confessed that she loved, besides him, only diamonds and her third husband. For actress Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton became husband number five. They were pestered by paparazzi, condemned by the Vatican and idolized by the Dream Factory. The union of the main Hollywood beauty with the 12th son of a Welsh miner gave the world 11 films, studios - hundreds of millions of dollars in profit. In the late 1960s, when the couple, tired of filming, decided to take a three-month break, a panic began in Hollywood: paintings with Richard and Elizabeth brought almost half of the annual income.
Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel
4. "Apartment", 1996.
The scandalous drama "Irreversibility", which became the eighth joint project for the actor's couple, cut to the quick with the twice-repeated motto: "Time destroys everything." It did not spare the union of Vincent and Monica, which seemed indestructible — the actors have been divorced for a year. Bellucci herself, however, does not deny that the collapse of the family may end in remarriage. Movie stars, as you know, this is a common practice — the already mentioned Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton will not lie.
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
5. "Adam's Rib", 1949.
She called his game "meat with baked potatoes." His — an intricate French dessert. And for 27 years spent in a duet, I have not found a single thing in common with Spencer. She graduated from Oxford — he barely got a certificate. She considered herself an atheist—he was an ardent Catholic. She couldn't stand drunk men—he drank for weeks, appearing on the set in a rumpled suit and smelling of whiskey. They were united by only nine paintings and a secret known throughout America: Catherine shared Spencer Tracy with his legal wife all her life. She lost consciousness at his funeral. She lived alone for another 36 years, but never watched their last movie "Guess who's coming to lunch."
Diane Keaton and Woody Allen
6. "Play it again, Sam!", 1972.
If you believe in the autobiographical script of "Annie Hall", lovers Diane Keaton and Woody Allen spent time in the cinema, on the couch of a psychoanalyst and in bed. They parted peacefully, dividing their jointly acquired property according to the principle "all books about death are yours, all poetry is mine." And this is very similar to the truth: by the beginning of the filming of "Annie Hall", Diane and Woody had done three joint projects and had already managed to break up. However, the actress starred in his paintings for a long time. Ahead — "Manhattan" and a small role in the "Era of Radio", where Keaton met with the new muse of maestro Mia Farrow.
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise
7. "With eyes wide closed", 1999.
Between the purchase of a private jet, which the enthusiastic Cruz called "Sweet Nick", and the scandalous divorce that caused the miscarriage of the upset Kidman, a lifetime of ten years passed. During the filming of the first two films ("Days of Thunder" and "Far, Far Away"), they were in love and convincingly played a couple of lovers. In the third picture ("With eyes wide closed") so imbued with the role of spouses tired of each other that the fourth joint project could no longer be expected.
Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks
8. "Joe against the Volcano", 1990.
"I don't think Meg and I have ever discussed the pictures in which we played together," Tom Hanks once admitted. And he added with a smile: "We are talking about what we are really interested in — about paradigm shifts, key philosophical problems and other important things." The actor's ironic attitude to his works does not detract from their merits at all: the romcoms "A letter to You" and "Sleepless in Seattle" are considered indisputable classics of the genre. Another joint project — the film adaptation of the book "Ithaca" — is already on the way. Hanks, however, decided not to shine in the frame and limited himself to the role of producer this time.
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier
9. "Lady Hamilton", 1941
Lawrence saw her for the first time in the theater: the actor was charmed, but married. And Vivien turned out to be a married lady. However, this duo has never been famous for its zealous attitude to family values. On the set of "Flame over the Island", a romance broke out. Four years later, when their second joint project ("21 Days") was released, both achieved a divorce. By the beginning of work on the third ("Lady Hamilton") — got married. But they will no longer act as a couple. Lawrence will spend the next 20 years staging plays with his wife and struggling with her mental disorders. In 1960, tired of scandals, he filed for divorce. Vivien would later write that "it would be better to live a short life with Larry than a long one without him." In solitude, which was brightened up only by cigarettes, she had seven long years to live.
Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio
10. "The Road of Change", 2008.
"I am absolutely not suitable for the role of a stupid provincial husband, as you are trying to make me look!" the hero of DiCaprio yells in "The Road of Change". "Yes, it's like you need to strain your imagination to call you a man!" — his wife, played by Winslet, does not let up. Sam Mendes' film, in which Kate and Leo met for the second (but hardly the last) time, demonstrates, according to DiCaprio himself, "what would happen to the heroes of Titanic if they started living together." One of the brightest love stories could turn into a family drama: the husband sleeps with a colleague, the wife sleeps with a neighbor, and both hate their lives. So it's a good thing that not all romances end in marriage. Sometimes the best way to stay the man of your dreams is to go to the bottom.