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CELEBRITY
COURTSHIPS

BY CARLA JEAN
SCHWARTZ

President Bill Clinton first noticed Hillary
in a civil liberties class at Yale Law School.
After she noticed him staring at her, she went
to talk to him. "If you're going to keep look-
ing at me and I'm going to keep looking at
you, we ought to at least get know each oth-
er," she said boldly.
Their courtship and how he proposed to
her is just one of the fascinating celebrity
courtships explored in the book Marry Me
from Angel Press by Wendy Goldberg and
Betty Goodwin. Together this literary duo
researched the courtship stories of 35 leg-
endary couples.
The 35 vignettes begin with the first
meeting, trace the courtship, describe the
proposal and conclude with the details of
the wedding. These love stories are ac-
companied by many rare, original wedding
photos reproduced in an antique tintype
quality.
The authors chose to begin the book with
the courtship of Martha Bemays and Dr. Sig-
mund Freud. "It is fitting to begin this book
with the romance of Dr. Freud. After all,
think of the many hours troubled lovers have
spent on the couch thanks to him," wrote the
authors in the introduction. In the authors'
research they discovered that not one of the
women did the marriage asking. But the au-
thors conclude that the women certainly
helped orchestrate the event. Goldberg and
Goodwin complied a list of celebrities that
would be universally appealing.
Many presidential courtships are revealed
including Nancy Davis and Ronald Reagan,
Jacqueline Bouvier and John Fitzgerald
Kennedy, Lady Bird and Lyndon Baines
Johnson, and, of course, Hillary and Bill.
Royalty marriages are well documented.
They include Grace Kelly and Prince
Rainier III of Monaco, Wallis Simpson and
King Edward VIII of England, Lisa Halaby
and King Hussein I of Jordan and Masako
Owada and Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan.
There are several fascinating celebrity sto-
ries spanning decades of Hollywood ro-
mances. Some of the celebrity courtships
include: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Joanne
Woodward and Paul Newman, Marilyn
Monroe and Joe DiMaggio, Sophia Loren
and Carol Ponti and Demi Moore and Bruce
Willis.