Random Movies That Totally Shattered Celebrity Marriages (17 items)

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  (#9) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

  • Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter, John Cleese, Kenneth Branagh, Ian Holm, Aidan Quinn, Hugh Bonneville, Richard Briers, Tom Hulce, Celia Imrie, Robert Hardy, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Cherie Lunghi, Gerard Horan, Joanna Roth, Trevyn McDowell, Mark Hadfield, Ryan J-W Smith

  Destroyed Marriage: Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson (1989-1995)

  While Kenneth Branagh directed and starred in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, he was one half of the reigning couple of early '90s British cinema. Branagh had been married to Emma Thompson for five years before production started, but apparently couldn't overcome his attraction to his Frankenstein costar Helena Bonham Carter. Thompson divorced Branagh shortly after news broke of his affair with Bonham Carter, and has since made peace with the actress:

  "As Mike Nicholls [the film and theatre director] once said, and I’ve picked it up because I think it’s such a wonderful phrase - all blood under the bridge. You can’t hold on to anything like that. I just think… pfft... It’s pointless. I haven’t got the energy for it. Helena and I made our peace years and years ago."
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  (#15) Titanic

  • Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, James Cameron, Bill Paxton, Ioan Gruffudd, Billy Zane, Victor Garber, David Warner, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bernard Hill, Eric Braeden, Suzy Amis, Jonathan Hyde, Jenette Goldstein, Bernard Fox, Danny Nucci, Ewan Stewart, Nicholas Cascone, Jonathan Phillips, Jason Barry, Lewis Abernathy

  Destroyed Marriage: James Cameron and Linda Hamilton (1997-1999) 

  Titanic director James Cameron and his fourth wife, actress Linda Hamilton, were not married for more than nine months before the famed director fell for actress Suzy Amis. Though the pair stayed together for about two years, Hamilton recalls having a hard time reconciling the relationship. She told The Telegraph, "The parading around, the lunches, the stress of being with Jim during the Titanic days - for years I could barely get make-up on, I was shaking so hard, because every award show we had was terrible."

  Though Hamilton says she was very much in love with her husband at the time, she recalls a lot of behind the scenes stress. Shortly after their divorce, Cameron married Amis, his fifth wife, and they are still together as of 2019. 
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  (#6) By The Sea: Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie

  Destroyed Marriage: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (2014-2016)

  What goes up must come down, and Brangelina came down hard after 2015's By the Sea. At the time of the film's release, Jolie told press that the movie - which chronicles the disintegration of a marriage - was a "test" of her marriage to Brad, but in hindsight it seems more like a documentary. Rumors flew during production about Jolie's "dark side" poisoning her relationship during filming, while Jolie herself confirmed that she butted heads with her husband on set.

  One year after the movie's release, Jolie filed for divorce.
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  (#2) Mr. & Mrs. Smith

  • Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Morrison, Kerry Washington, Vince Vaughn, Angela Bassett, Michelle Monaghan, Keith David, Adam Brody, Stephanie March, Perrey Reeves, Chris Weitz, Theresa Barrera, Melanie Tolbert, Rachael Huntley, Jerry T Adams

  Destroyed Marriage: Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston (2000-2005)

  It seems safe to name production of Mr. & Mrs. Smith as the moment when Brad Pitt's marriage to Jennifer Aniston imploded. Although Aniston cited "irreconcilable differences" in her divorce filing just months before the movie's premiere, Pitt later went on record as saying he "fell in love" while shooting the film with Angelina Jolie. Suddenly, the rumors of an on-set dalliance seemed to be true. Jolie also confirmed that sparks flew while filming, despite her hesitance to pursue a married man.

  "It took until, really, the end of the shoot for us, I think, to realize that it might mean something more than we’d earlier allowed ourselves to believe," she said. "And both knowing that the reality of that was a big thing, something that was going to take a lot of serious consideration."

  One month after Aniston's filing, a paparazzo spotted Jolie and Pitt vacationing with Jolie's adoptive son, Maddox, in Africa. Just like that, Brangelina was born.
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  (#17) Mind Over Murder

  Destroyed Marriage #1: Tori Spelling and Charlie Shanian (2004-2006)

  Destroyed Marriage #2: Dean McDermott and Mary Jo Eustace (1993–2006) 

  Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott have been married since 2006, but they were both already wed when they met on set for the Lifetime TV movie Mind Over Murder less than a year before they eloped in Fiji. The pair spent the night together the day they met and never looked back. 

  McDermott has a son with his previous wife, and he and Spelling have had five kids together. 
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  (#1) Cleopatra

  • Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Martin Landau, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Carroll O'Connor, Hume Cronyn, Francesca Annis, Pamela Brown, Robert Stephens, Grégoire Aslan, Andrew Keir, Martin Benson, George Cole, Cesare Danova, Kenneth Haigh, Herbert Berghof

  Destroyed Marriage #1: Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher (1959-1964)

  Destroyed Marriage #2: Richard Burton and Sybil Williams (1949-1963)

  When Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton started filming Cleopatra in 1961, they hated each other. She called him "brutish and boorish;" he called her "Miss Tits." When it was time for their first on-scene kiss, however, all of that seemed to go out the window. The director called cut, then cut again, then again... but they couldn't stop kissing.

  There was one catch, however: they were both married at the time. Taylor was with her fourth husband, Eddie Fisher, and Burton was married to Sybil Williams. Once word of their scandalous kiss got out, their marriages went up in flames. The two eventually divorced their respective spouses and married each other from 1964 to 1974, divorced, and then remarried each other from 1975 to 1976. 

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