Hollywood Marriages: The Quick and the Numerous Marriages of Hollywood Celebrities

Liz Taylor might be famous for having married eight times and Britney Spears might be famous for having been married for a mere fifty-five hours, but these are far from a record considering some other Hollywood marriages.

Take for example Rudolph Valentino and Jean Acker. They were married in November 1919. Although their divorce wasn't official until 1922, their marriage was over after only six hours when Acker locked Valentino out of the honeymoon suite. Unable to woo his way back inside, Valentino gave up and went home.

Robin Givens is more famous for her short marriage to Mike Tyson-they were divorced a year to the day after they were married-but it is not her shortest marriage. No, that honor goes to her marriage to her tennis instructor, Syetozar Marinkovic. The two were married on Aug. 22, 1997. Wedded bliss was fleeting for the couple considering that they separated that same day.

The marriage between actor Dennis Hopper and singer Michelle Phillips last slightly longer, but not much. Their marriage survived only eight days, during which Hopper admits he was in "a fog of drugs and alcohol," in 1970. Cher married spontaneously decided to marry her beau Gregg Allman. The two flew to Vegas in a Lear Jet. The marriage soon came crashing down and she filed for divorce nine days later. The experience apparently hasn't turned Allman off marriage, though, since he has been married at least six times.

Drew Barrymore also has a couple record-breaking marriages on her belt. Her first marriage to Jeremy Thomas in 1994 lasted only thirty days. Her second marriage to Tom Green lasted five times longer-or five months-before they divorced in 2001.

Catherine Oxenberg, known for her portrayal of Amanda Carrington on Dynasty, also has a remarkably short marriage in her history. Her first marriage to producer Robert Evans lasted only nine days before it was annulled. Of course, they didn't really know each other considering that the marriage took place only four days after they had met.

The record for the most marriages as well as one of the shortest marriages actually goes to Zsa Zsa Gabor. Zsa Zsa Gabor and Felipe De Alba, a Mexican actor, were married only one day before it was annulled. She has been married nine times. Her longest marriage is her current one to Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, who recently made headlines when he announced that he might be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby. Gabor and Anhalt were married in 1986.

As stated earlier, Elizabeth Taylor has been married eight times to seven different men. Lana Turner also married eight times and married one man, Stephen Crane, twice. Stephen Crane not only married eight times, twice to Lana Turner, but he also married Helen DeMaree twice. Jazz musician and composer Artie Shaw was also married a total of eight times, but he only married Lana Turner once. Confused? Perhaps that's why Mickey Rooney kept things simpler. Sure, he married eight times but to eight different women-and none of them were Lana Turner or Elizabeth Taylor.

"Hollywood marriage" used to be a term used to describe a marriage between two celebrities, now it has become synonymous with a marriage that is over almost as quickly as it began. If the trend continues, perhaps Hollywood will not only be the place to go if you want to be an actor but the place you should go if you want to become a divorce attorney.