Title： 100 Years Romance                     

Who says Hollywood’s great love stories only take place onscreen?

True, most Tinseltown romances have the shelf life of stale Twinkies. But the place has also produced some of the most enduring and endearing, passionate and perilous, improbable and unsolvable matches of all time.

A few pairings lasted decades. Others took off like a Roman candle----then burned out just as quickly. They faced the pressures of fame, the scrutiny of the media and, sometimes, the specter of scandal.

Their common bond? A love that captured the imagination, grabbed the spotlight, and made the world say----however briefly----“good for them”

No.10 Clark Gable & Carole Lombard

Claim to Fame: He had rugged good looks and a devilish grin and radiated a dangerous sexuality. His nickname was The King (the result of a 1938 newspaper poll), and he sealed the title by playing Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind, She was a blonde, screwball heroine (My Man Godfrey) who played giddy and glamorous with gusto and had a formidable reputation for swearing. When they wed in 1939(his third, her second) it was a match made in Hollywood heaven.

Whey They Matter: The movie king and comedy queen were the real thing. Soul mates who settled down to domesticity in a restored rural farmhouse, they called each other Ma and Pa，raised chickens and went hunting together.(They also kept making movies.) But tragedy struck in 1942, just three years into their marriage. Lombard, on tour to sell war bonds, died in a mountain plane crash near Las Vegas at age 33. A distraught Gable had to be restrained from scaling the peak to retrieve her body.

Postscript: Gable never recovered from Lombard’s death, turning to drink for comfort. He married twice more, but when he died of a heart attack after completing his 67^th movie, The Misfits, his then wife, Kay had him buried next to Lombard in Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Love Note: When they quarreled, Lombard would sometimes send Gable live doves as peace offerings.

No.9 Sean Penn & Madonna

Claim to Fame: Their love was as explosive as a train wreck-and just as spectacular. From their February 1985 introduction (on the set of her “Material Girl” video) to their Malibu wedding that August(with press helicopters churning overhead and drowning out their vows) to their 1989 divorce, Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone and Sean Penn teetered between rapture and rupture. These opposites didn’t just attract-they collided.

Why They Matter: Known as the poison Penns (or sometimes S&M), they managed to weather the 1986 bomb Shanghai Surprise (their only film together) but couldn’t survive Penn’s drinking, tantrums and jealous rages (Madonna’s close attachment to Sandra Bernhard didn’t help, either). The Material Girl, who once proclaimed prickly Penn “the cooled guy in the universe,” filed (and then withdrew) an assault complaint against him shortly before producing divorce papers.

Postscript: He calmed down (we think) and had a son and daughter with Robin Wright. She gave birth to daughter Lourdes, fathered by personal trainer Carlos Leon.

Love Note: “Every once in a while I wake up and go, ‘My God! I was married once,’ Madonna recalls. “I was married, and he was the love of my life.” Penn has a different perspective. “It was all rumor,” he says, “I never met the woman.”

No.8 Elvis Prsesley & Ann-Marget

Claim to Fame: Elvis was 28 and Ann-Margret 22 when director George Sidney introduce then on the MGM sound stage where they were about to start Viva Las Vegas in 1964. “We both felt a current, and electricity that went straight through us,” she later gushed, “It would become a force we couldn’t control.”

Why They Matter: During the course of filming, they ignited like a Fourth of July candle. A-M’s description of one uninhibited moment performing for friends: “We were both on the ground, stretched out like cats, and in a husky growl he sang ‘you got me hidin’. As we traded lyrics, we crawled around the carpeted room…”

Postscript: Despite all the purple passion, there was the small matter of a teenage Priscilla, then stashed away at Graceland and expecting to marry Elvis. “Elvis and I knew he has commitments,” A-M said delicately. “Both of us knew, no matter how much we loved each other, we weren’t going to last.” They didn’t, splitting (but remaining friends) after the film wrapped. He married Priscilla, she wed actor Roger Smith.

Love Note: “I will never recover from Elvis’s death,” she wrote in her autobiography. “He is a part of me, of my happiness and my sorrow that will never go away.”

No.7 Cary Grant & Randolph Scott

Claim to Frame: They denied a romantic relationship, of course. But that’s not surprising, considering that back when Grant and Scott were living together, being gay was about as much of a career booster, as being a Communist. Besides, Grant’s public image was that of a lady-killer, and Scott also played romantic movie roles.

Why They Matter: We’ll never know the pressures they endured while keeping their secret in intolerant times. And we’ll never know the joy they shared through the years. But this much we do know: Grant and Scott shared a house or apartment together for a decade-including before and after Grant’s 1934 marriage to Virginia Cherrill; they posed for publicity shots, happily playing with the dog at the breakfast table and bare-chested on a diving board, only inches apart. Their comfy companionship had 30s gossip columnists all atwitter, with one suggesting they were “carrying the buddy business a bit too far.”

Postscript: Rumors that Grant was bisexual circulated his entire life (despite five wives). He died at 82 in 1986, Scott at 89 in 1987.

Love Note: Grant told gossip queen Hedda Hopper, “My personal affairs are none of your goddamned business.”

No.6 Grace Kelly & Prince Rainier Ⅲ of  Monaco

Claim to Fame: He was a real prince, she was a legit Hollywood beauty queen, and together they forged a modern-day fairy tale. Forget his live-in relationship with a French actress and her reported dalliances with Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, William Holden and Oleg Cassini (among others). When

Grace and Rainier became engaged at roughly their second meeting (“ I barely know him,” Grace blithely admitted), the storybook machinery roared into high gear, and their romance captivated the world.

Why They Matter: Married in a spectacular 1956 wedding, Grace and Rainier appeared devoted and genuinely in love despite their abbreviated get-to-know-you time. The serene couple produced three children: Caroline (born nine months and five days after the nuptials), Albert and Stephanie. And the unbeatable combination of movie-star glamour and dashing royalty put the tiny nation of Monaco on the map. In later years they spent more time apart, with Grace living part of the year in Paris. But when she died in a 1982 car crash at 52, Rainier was visibly devastated.”

Postscript: The prince never remarried, declaring his late wife was “still everywhere” in the palace.

Love Note: When Grace lay in state, her only jewelry was the simple gold wedding band placed on her finger by Rainier 26 years earlier.

No.5 Katharine Hepburn & Spencer Tracy

Claim to Fame: “I fear I may be a little too tall for you, Mr. Tracy,” Hepburn said at their first meeting, prior to 1942’s Woman of The Year. “Don’t worry, Miss Hepburn,” he replied, “I’ll cut you down to size.” And went one of Hollywood’s most famous partnerships-a sassy battles of the sexes that spanned nine movies. (Including Adam’s Rib, Pat and Mike and Desk Set) and 27 years.

Why They Matter: Nobody said love would be easy. Tracy was beset by demons, including alcoholism and depression, and his Catholic upbringing kept him from divorcing his wife. He was reportedly sometimes abusive to Hepburn, a crusty (and upper-crust) divorcee who delighted in dressing like a man and speaking her mind. Battling onscreen they were inseparable off (although they always lived apart). Despite all the obstacles, Tracy and Hepburn managed to live life on their own terms.

Postscript: When Tracy died of a heart attack in 1967, just days after he and Hepburn finished filming Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, it was Hepburn who found his body. Yet despite the couple’s quarter-century run, she stayed away from the funeral rather than intrude upon his family.

Love Note: “Not much meat on her,” Tracy once observed about Hepburn, “ But what’s there is choice.”

No.4 Marilyn Monroe & Joe DiMaggio

Claim to Fame: They were the American dream: the blonde bombshell and the baseball legend, national icons who united for nine months of fascinating matrimony in 1954. Even after the divorce, they remained close friends and steadfastly refused to go public about the marriage. (Class act DiMaggio reportedly turned down $50,000for a 15-minute interview about Monroe.)

Why They Matter: They met on a blind date at an Italian restaurant in 1952 (she kept him waiting two hours), and although she knew nothing about base \ball and he was indifferent to moviemaking, the attraction was instant. (Joe reportedly compared her to “a good double-play combination”.) But after their wedding at San Francisco City Hall, the union quickly became a strikeout. DiMaggio wanted his wife to be a stay-at-home mom and homemaker. Monroe (“the Stradivarius of Sex,” according to Norman Mailer) was as likely to do that as enroll in astrophysics school. The last straw reportedly was Marilyn’s billowing-skirt-over-the-grate shot in The Seven Year Itch.

Postscript: Monroe married and divorced playwright Arthur Miller, dallied with a series of famous lovers and died in 1962. DiMaggio never remarried and died in 1999.

Love Note: For 20 years after Marilyn’s death, Joe sent roses to her grave three times a week.

No.3 Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall

Claim to Fame: He was Bogie, she was his Baby, and together they were the golden couple of the ‘40s and early’50smab ybkujekt duo who sizzled onscreen and off. The basset-faced Bogart mixed disillusion, cynicism and nobility in equal parts. The droll, dazzling Bacall-25years Bogie’s junior-was his perfect foil. They met while making the 1944 classic To Have and Have Not, and that film provided their defining moment: Bacall growling at Bogie, “yu know how to whistle, don’t you? You just put your lips together and blow.”

Why They matter: Bogart’s third marriage was on the rocks when he fell head over heels for Bacall, aka (also known as) The Look. They wed in 1945, had two children and enthralled romantics everywhere who wanted to believe in one true love. The marriage was rock-solid until Bogie’s death from cancer at age 57. His last words to Baby: “Goodbye, kid.”

Postscript: Only 33 when Bogie died, Bacall tried to pick up the pieces via an affair with Frank Sinatra and a marriage to Jason Robards. Now divorced but still acting, Bacall lives in New York’s fable Dakota building, her name forever linked with Bogart’s in the one-word phradw BogieandBacall.

Love Note: Their son, Steve Bogart, was named for his father’s character in To Have and Have Not -the one Bacall taught to whistle. (Baby buried Bogie with a small gold whistle he’d given her.)

No.2 Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton

Claim to Fame: One of Hollywood’s most combustible couples; Liz and Dick couldn’t live apart-or together. As famous for their relentless passion as for their prodigious talents, Taylor and Burton were entwined for 22 years and two marriages. (“ Our love is so furious, we burn each other out,” Burton panted.) Fueled by alcohol and excess, this lusty duo enthralled and tormented each other until Burton’s death in 1984.

Why They Matter: After they met on the Rome set of 1963’s Cleopatra, discretion went out the window (along with their spouses) as Burton and Taylor carried on one of history’s most public adulterous affairs. “She is a wildly exciting lover-mistress,” Burton breathlessly told his diary. “She is beautiful beyond the dreams of Pornography…Elizabeth is an eternal one-night stand.” They wed in Montreal in 1964, separated 10 years later, remarried in 1975 in Botswana and called it quits again four months later.

Postscript: Taylor walked away from the marriages with millions of dollars in jewels Burton had bought her. “I introduced her to beer,” He grumbled, “She introduced me to Bulgari.”

Love Note: Despite subsequent affiliations (he had three other wives, she had five other husbands), they never could disengage from each other. “Part of Richard was always with Elizabeth.” said his brother, “he used to hold hands with her under the table when Sally 〔Burton’s last wife〕and Victor Luna 〔Taylor’s then finance〕were there.

No.1 Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward

Claim to Fame: She’s Newman’s own. He’s nobody’s fool except hers. They met and sizzled in the 1953 Broadway production of Picnic, But it took five years (and a wrenching divorce for him) before they could marry. Now, after 40-plus years as man and wife–and–three daughters——they’re the most glamorous grandparents around.

Why They Matter: As if two actors lasting four decades together isn’t enough, New