100 Fun Facts About Famous Couples

Which couple got together while filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 2005?

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were dubbed "Brangelina" by the media after getting together on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 2005. The portmanteau became one of the most recognizable celebrity couple nicknames ever.

In Friends, which two characters argued about being 'on a break'?

Ross and Rachel's turbulent relationship was a central storyline throughout Friends (1994-2004). Their "We were on a break!" argument became one of TV's most iconic catchphrases.

Which British royal couple married at Westminster Abbey in April 2011?

Prince William & Catherine Middleton married at Westminster Abbey on 29 April 2011; about a million people lined the route to Buckingham Palace and the day was declared a UK bank holiday.

Which couple, first linked in a 2002 music video, married privately on April 4, 2008, the husband confirming it months later?

Beyonce & Jay-Z kept the wedding so quiet that he only confirmed it in an interview later that year; she had first appeared as his girlfriend in a 2002 video.

In Shakespeare's most famous love story, which two young lovers belong to feuding families in Verona?

Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet are the star-crossed lovers in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (c. 1597). Their families' bitter feud ultimately leads to the tragic deaths of both young lovers.

Which pair played the on-screen couple in the 2018 film A Star Is Born?

Bradley Cooper directed and starred opposite Lady Gaga in the 2018 remake of A Star Is Born. Their on-screen chemistry and the hit song "Shallow" sparked intense public speculation about their relationship.

Which royal couple's 1981 wedding was watched by an estimated 750 million television viewers worldwide?

Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer married on July 29, 1981, at St Paul's Cathedral in London. Often called the "wedding of the century," it was one of the most-watched broadcasts in television history.

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively first met on the set of which 2011 superhero film?

Green Lantern, filmed in 2010 and released in 2011, is where Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively first met; they married in September 2012 at Boone Hall near Charleston, South Carolina.

Which fictional couple from The Office (US) got married at Niagara Falls during season 6?

Jim Halpert and Pam Beesly's wedding in the season 6 episode "Niagara" is considered one of the most memorable TV weddings ever. The episode featured the cast dancing down the aisle to Chris Brown's "Forever."

Which couple met filming Days of Thunder and married on Christmas Eve 1990?

Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman met on the 1990 racing film Days of Thunder and married on 24 December 1990 in Telluride, Colorado; they divorced in 2001.

Which couple from Pride and Prejudice overcomes class prejudice and pride to fall in love?

Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are the central couple in Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. Their journey from mutual disdain to deep love is one of the most celebrated romances in English literature.

What was Victoria Beckham's famous nickname from her pop group days?

Victoria Adams was 'Posh Spice' in the Spice Girls; she began dating Manchester United footballer David Beckham in 1997 and married him in July 1999.

Which couple's affair helped end the Roman Republic after their defeat at Actium in 31 BC?

Cleopatra & Mark Antony lost their fleet to Octavian at Actium; he invaded Egypt the next year and both took their own lives.

John Legend wrote his hit song "All of Me" for which model and TV personality?

Chrissy Teigen, John Legend's wife, inspired 'All of Me'; the song's video closes with footage from their September 2013 wedding at Lake Como, Italy.

In which 1997 film did DiCaprio and Kate Winslet play a doomed couple aboard a sinking ship?

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet starred as Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater in James Cameron's Titanic (1997). The film won 11 Academy Awards and became the highest-grossing film of all time at that point.

Which couple from the Twilight series consists of a human girl and a vampire?

Bella Swan and Edward Cullen are the central couple in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga (2005-2008). Their forbidden romance between a human and a vampire captivated millions of readers and moviegoers worldwide.

What did the media call Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's January 2020 step back from royal duties?

Megxit mashes Meghan with exit, echoing Brexit; the Sun broke the story on 8 January 2020 and the couple confirmed it within hours.

Which Nobel Prize-winning couple is famous for their pioneering research on radioactivity?

Marie & Pierre Curie shared the 1903 physics prize with Henri Becquerel; Marie's 1911 chemistry prize made her the first person to win in two sciences.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West married in 2014 in which European city?

Florence hosted the 24 May 2014 ceremony at Forte di Belvedere; the pair had become engaged the previous October at San Francisco's AT&T Park on Kardashian's 33rd birthday.

Which Disney animated couple shares a magic carpet ride in the song "A Whole New World"?

Aladdin and Princess Jasmine share the iconic magic carpet ride during "A Whole New World" in Disney's Aladdin (1992). The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Why did Napoleon have his marriage to Joséphine annulled in 1810?

Napoleon needed a son to secure his dynasty; his second wife, Marie Louise of Austria, gave him one in 1811.

Which couple in The Notebook fall in love one 1940s summer in Seabrook, South Carolina?

Noah & Allie are played by Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams in the 2004 film, adapted from Nicholas Sparks' 1996 novel.

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith met in 1994 when she auditioned for which TV show that Will starred in?

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: in 1994 Jada auditioned to play Will's girlfriend Lisa Wilkes and did not get the part, but the friendship turned romantic and they married on 31 December 1997.

Which couple's tumultuous 1960s folk-scene relationship is chronicled in the 2024 film A Complete Unknown?

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez's relationship is featured in A Complete Unknown, the 2024 biographical film starring Timothee Chalamet as Dylan. The folk music icons were both romantically and creatively intertwined during the 1960s folk revival.

What distinction does the son of John and Abigail Adams hold?

John Quincy Adams, son of John and Abigail Adams, was the Sixth President of the United States (1825-1829); the Adamses were the first father-son presidential pair, 176 years before the Bushes.

In February 1968, Johnny Cash proposed to June Carter onstage during a concert in which city?

London, Ontario: Johnny Cash proposed to June Carter on stage at the London Gardens arena on 22 February 1968; they married a week later, on 1 March 1968, in Franklin, Kentucky.

In Pixar's Up, what is the name of the waterfall Carl and Ellie dreamed of visiting?

Paradise Falls was modelled on the real Angel Falls in Venezuela; the opening montage of Carl and Ellie's life is one of animation's great tear-jerkers.

Which First Lady, wife of the 44th President, was a lawyer and hospital administrator?

Michelle Robinson Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin in Chicago, where she met Barack Obama in 1989 as his mentor. She later became an executive at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Whose Great Depression crime spree across the central US ended in a 1934 Louisiana ambush?

Their spree ran from 1932 to 1934; a posse led by ex-Texas Ranger Frank Hamer killed them on Louisiana Highway 154 on May 23, 1934, and the 1967 film did the rest.

Which series follows the Duke of Hastings, Simon Basset, courting debutante Daphne in Regency London?

Bridgerton, the hit Netflix series based on Julia Quinn's novels, features the romance between Daphne Bridgerton and Simon Basset (the Duke of Hastings) in its first season. The show became Netflix's most-watched series at the time of its 2020 release.

Which married couple starred as George and Martha in 1966's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor starred as the warring married couple George and Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). Their real-life romance was equally dramatic — they married twice (1964 and 1975) and divorced twice.

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, who married each other twice, were both born in which country?

Mexico produced them both, Kahlo in Coyoacán and Rivera in Guanajuato; they wed in 1929, divorced in 1939 and remarried in 1940.

Which Hollywood couple met on the set of The Mexican in 2000 but only started dating later?

Roberts and cinematographer Danny Moder married on July 4, 2002, at her ranch in Taos; her production company Red Om is his surname spelled backwards.

In Greek mythology, which couple's love story has one partner descend to the underworld to retrieve the other?

Orpheus journeyed to the underworld to bring back his dead wife Eurydice. Hades agreed to release her on the condition Orpheus not look back while leading her out. Tragically, he looked back just before reaching the surface and lost her forever.

Which political couple included a president and a wife titled 'Spiritual Leader of the Nation'?

Juan Peron served as President of Argentina, and his wife Eva (Evita) championed labor rights and women's suffrage. She was officially given the title 'Spiritual Leader of the Nation' before her death from cancer in 1952 at age 33.

On the set of which film did Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell begin their romance in 1983?

Swing Shift, shot in 1983 and released in 1984, is where Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell became a couple; they had first met on The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968).

Which Harry Potter couple starts as rivals and ends up married with children Rose and Hugo?

Ron & Hermione bicker their way through seven books; the Deathly Hallows epilogue, nineteen years on, shows them seeing Rose off to Hogwarts.

George Burns said his one talent was being married to Gracie Allen — for how many years?

Married in 1926, they stayed together until Gracie's death in 1964 — 38 years across vaudeville, radio, film and television.

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's highly publicized wedding took place in 2000 in which California city?

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston married on July 29, 2000, in a lavish ceremony in Malibu, California. The wedding reportedly cost around $1 million and featured fireworks and a performance by a gospel choir. Their divorce in 2005 became one of the biggest celebrity stories of the decade.

Which Wuthering Heights couple's love is described as transcending death?

Catherine & Heathcliff are the pair in Wuthering Heights; Catherine's cry 'I am Heathcliff' comes as she admits she cannot marry him because of his low status.

Which French existentialist couple wrote The Second Sex and Being and Nothingness?

Sartre and de Beauvoir maintained a lifelong intellectual and romantic partnership from 1929 until Sartre's death in 1980, pioneering an open relationship while producing some of the 20th century's most influential philosophy.

Which couple's romance triggered the 1936 abdication crisis?

King Edward VIII abdicated in December 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American socialite, saying he could not carry out his duties 'without the help and support of the woman I love.'

Which 1942 film was the first of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn's nine together?

Woman of the Year (1942) began Tracy and Hepburn's nine-film partnership and a 25-year off-screen romance that lasted until Tracy's death in 1967; he never divorced his wife Louise.

John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier married in 1953 at St. Mary's Church in which Rhode Island city?

Newport: JFK and Jacqueline Bouvier married at St. Mary's Church on 12 September 1953, with a reception for about 1,200 guests at Hammersmith Farm, the estate of her stepfather Hugh Auchincloss.

Which couple, together since 1986 and engaged in 1992 but never married, includes Harpo Productions' founder?

Harpo is her first name spelled backwards; the wedding planned for November 1992 never took place.

Marilyn Monroe was briefly married to which playwright, author of Death of a Salesman?

The marriage ended in January 1961; Miller wrote the screenplay for The Misfits, directed by John Huston, as a vehicle for Monroe.

In what year did Prince Rainier III of Monaco marry American actress Grace Kelly?

Prince Rainier III of Monaco married Grace Kelly on April 19, 1956. Kelly gave up her Hollywood career to become Princess of Monaco. Their fairy-tale union produced three children and transformed Monaco into a glamorous destination.

Which Victorian couple courted by letter and married secretly in 1846, inspiring Sonnets from the Portuguese?

Robert & Elizabeth Barrett Browning wed secretly at St Marylebone church on 12 September 1846 and left for Italy a week later; her father disinherited each of his children who married.

Which celebrity couple's 2011 marriage lasted just 72 days?

Kim Kardashian & Kris Humphries married on 20 August 2011 and she filed for divorce on 31 October, 72 days later; critics called the televised wedding a publicity stunt.

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall first appeared together in which 1944 film noir?

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall met on the set of To Have and Have Not (1944) and married in 1945. Bacall was just 19 and Bogart was 44. Their chemistry was legendary — Bacall's line "You know how to whistle, don't you?" became one of cinema's most iconic moments.

How many days after her conviction was Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, beheaded in May 1536?

Four days: Anne Boleyn was convicted on 15 May 1536 and beheaded at the Tower on 19 May; her brother George and the other accused men had been executed on 17 May.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who married in 1840, were related how?

First cousins: Victoria's mother, Princess Victoire of Saxe-Coburg, and Albert's father, Duke Ernest I, were siblings; they had nine children and she wore black after his death in 1861.

Before becoming Byzantine empress and Justinian's chief political adviser, Theodora had worked as what?

Theodora had been a courtesan and actress before Justinian met her; she reigned beside him from 527 until her death in 548.

Which medieval logician and theologian became Héloïse's lover, collaborator and husband?

Peter Abelard tutored Heloise in Paris around 1115, fathered her son Astrolabe and married her secretly; her uncle Fulbert had him castrated, and both entered religious life.

Shah Jahan commissioned Agra's great white mausoleum in 1631 to house the tomb of which wife?

Mumtaz Mahal, Shah Jahan's favourite wife, died in childbirth in 1631; the Taj Mahal built for her was completed in 1643, and the emperor was buried beside her in 1666.

Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon, whose marriage unified Spain, wed in 1469 in which city?

Valladolid: the couple wed at the Palacio de los Vivero on 19 October 1469, she 18 and he 17; Pope Alexander VI named them the Catholic Monarchs in 1494.

How were Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who married in 1905, related?

Fifth cousins once removed: both descended from 17th-century settler Claes van Rosenvelt; Eleanor was also President Theodore Roosevelt's niece, and he gave her away at the March 1905 wedding.

Russia's last empress, Alexandra Feodorovna, was born Princess Alix of which German state?

Hesse: Alix was born in Darmstadt in 1872, daughter of Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and by Rhine; she married Nicholas II in November 1894 and was executed with him in July 1918.

Which television innovation did Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz pioneer with I Love Lucy?

The syndicated rerun: because I Love Lucy was shot on 35mm film, episodes could be repeated, and CBS first reran them in 1953; Desilu kept the films and later sold them into syndication.

Richard and Mildred Loving's 1967 Supreme Court case struck down laws against what?

Interracial marriage: the unanimous Loving v. Virginia ruling of 12 June 1967 struck down Virginia's Racial Integrity Act and similar bans in 15 other states; June 12 became known as Loving Day.

How did John Lennon and Yoko Ono spend their 1969 honeymoon?

They then recorded together as the Plastic Ono Band and stayed married until his murder outside the Dakota in 1980.

Pocahontas's husband John Rolfe changed the Virginia colony's fortunes by successfully growing what?

Tobacco: around 1612 Rolfe grew a sweeter strain from seeds obtained from Trinidad, and it became Virginia's first profitable cash crop; he married Pocahontas in 1614.

On the set of which stage drama did Joanne Woodward first meet Paul Newman in the early 1950s?

Picnic: both were in the 1953 Broadway production of William Inge's play, Newman in the cast and Woodward as an understudy; they married on 29 January 1958 and she won her Oscar two months later.

In which year did Rita Wilson marry Tom Hanks?

1988: Hanks, who already had children Colin and Elizabeth, married Rita Wilson on 30 April 1988 after they fell for each other filming Volunteers (1985); sons Chet and Truman followed.

At which Irish venue did Victoria and David Beckham marry on 4 July 1999?

Luttrellstown Castle, outside Dublin: the Bishop of Cork officiated, Gary Neville was best man and four-month-old Brooklyn was ring bearer; OK! magazine paid about 1 million pounds for the photos.

Where did Bill and Hillary Clinton hold their October 1975 wedding ceremony?

Their Fayetteville living room: a Methodist minister married them on 11 October 1975 in the small brick house Bill had just bought; she kept the name Hillary Rodham until 1982.

What did Kurt Cobain wear when he married Courtney Love on Waikiki Beach in February 1992?

Plaid pajamas: Cobain wore green plaid flannel pajamas to the 24 February 1992 ceremony on Waikiki Beach; Love wore a satin and lace dress once owned by the actress Frances Farmer.

George and Amal Clooney were married in September 2014 at Ca' Farsetti in which city?

Venice: the civil ceremony at Ca' Farsetti, the city hall on the Grand Canal, came on 29 September 2014, two days after the celebrity-packed wedding at the Aman hotel; Walter Veltroni officiated.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes got engaged in June 2005 — how long after first meeting?

Seven weeks in, Cruise proposed at the Eiffel Tower; Holmes, raised Catholic, took up Scientology soon after and filed for divorce in June 2012.

How old was Cher when she first met Sonny Bono in a Los Angeles coffee shop in November 1962?

Sixteen: Cher, born May 1946, met the 27-year-old Bono, then working for Phil Spector, in November 1962; they had an unofficial wedding in 1964 and married legally in 1969 after their child was born.

The Obamas' first date in 1989 was a trip to see which Spike Lee film?

Do the Right Thing, released that summer, was the film on their first date in 1989; Barack was a summer associate Michelle had been assigned to mentor at Chicago's Sidley Austin.

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's 2012 wedding at his home also celebrated what?

Her medical school graduation: guests were invited to mark Chan finishing at UCSF medical school, then found themselves at the 19 May 2012 backyard wedding, one day after Facebook's stock market debut.

Bill and Melinda Gates married in 1994 on a golf course on which Hawaiian island?

Lanai: the couple wed on 1 January 1994 on the 12th hole of the Jack Nicklaus-designed Manele golf course; they announced their divorce in 2021 after 27 years of marriage.

Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell's 1991 Buddhist wedding was held in which national park?

Yosemite's Ahwahnee Hotel hosted the ceremony, led by Jobs's Zen teacher Kobun Chino Otogawa; the vegan cake was shaped like Half Dome.

Lillian Disney talked her husband Walt out of which original name for Mickey Mouse?

Mortimer was Walt's first choice on the 1928 train ride home from New York, but Lillian thought it too pompous and suggested Mickey; Mortimer Mouse later resurfaced as Mickey's rival for Minnie.

Elvis and Priscilla Presley married in May 1967 in a suite at which Las Vegas hotel?

The Aladdin: the eight-minute ceremony took place in a suite there on 1 May 1967, more than seven years after the pair first met in West Germany in 1959, where Elvis was serving in the Army.

Marilyn Monroe married baseball star Joe DiMaggio in 1954 at the city hall of which city?

San Francisco: the couple married at City Hall on 14 January 1954; two weeks later they flew to Japan, Monroe slipped away to perform for US troops in Korea, and she filed for divorce that October.

What phrase did Gwyneth Paltrow use to announce her 2014 split from Chris Martin?

Conscious uncoupling, a term coined by therapist Katherine Woodward Thomas, headlined Paltrow's March 2014 Goop post announcing the separation; the couple, married since December 2003, finalized their divorce in 2016.

Why did Elton John and David Furnish form their civil partnership on 21 December 2005?

The first day the law allowed it: 21 December 2005 was the first day civil partnerships could be registered in England and Wales, and the pair did so at Windsor Guildhall; they married on the same date in 2014.

Where did Dolly Parton first meet her husband Carl Dean on her first day in Nashville?

Outside a laundromat: Dean drove past the Wishy Washy laundromat in 1964 and warned the new arrival she would get sunburned; they married in Ringgold, Georgia, in 1966 and stayed together until his death in 2025.

Serena Williams's husband Alexis Ohanian co-founded which website?

Reddit: Ohanian co-founded the site with Steve Huffman in 2005; he and Williams married in New Orleans in November 2017 with Beyonce, Anna Wintour and Kim Kardashian among the guests.

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter became the longest-wed presidential pair in 2019, passing whom?

The Carters overtook the Bushes at 26,765 days and reached 77 years before Rosalynn died in November 2023.

F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald married in April 1920 at which New York landmark?

St. Patrick's Cathedral: the couple married in its rectory on 3 April 1920, a week after This Side of Paradise was published; Zelda went on to write her own novel, Save Me the Waltz, in 1932.

Mary and Percy Shelley spent the 1816 summer that produced Frankenstein near which city?

Geneva: the Shelleys rented a house near Byron's Villa Diodati at Cologny on Lake Geneva, where Byron challenged everyone to write a ghost story; an astronomer later dated Mary's waking dream to 16 June.

Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes chose 16 June 1956 as their wedding day in honour of what?

Bloomsday, the 16 June of Joyce's Ulysses: they had met less than four months earlier; Plath's mother was the sole witness at St George the Martyr in Holborn, and the honeymoon took in Paris and Benidorm.

Virginia and Leonard Woolf bought a hand printer in 1917 and founded which publisher?

The Hogarth Press began with a hand-bound pamphlet, Two Stories, in 1917; by 1923 Virginia had hand-set the type for the first British edition of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.

Gertrude Stein's 1933 bestseller was written in the voice of which life partner?

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was really Stein's own memoir of her Paris years, and it lifted her from cult obscurity into mainstream fame.

Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie won the 1935 Nobel in Chemistry for discovering what?

Induced radioactivity: in 1934 they made the first artificial radioactive isotope, phosphorus-30, by bombarding aluminium with alpha particles; they were the second married couple to win a Nobel, after Irene's parents.

How old was Marie Antoinette when she married the future Louis XVI in 1770?

Fourteen: born in November 1755, she was wed by proxy in Vienna in April 1770 with her brother Ferdinand standing in for the groom, then met Louis for the first time in the forest of Compiegne in May.

The painted bust of Nefertiti, wife of pharaoh Akhenaten, is displayed in which city?

Berlin: a German team led by Ludwig Borchardt dug the bust up at Amarna in December 1912, and it went on show at the Neues Museum; Egypt first demanded its return in the 1920s.

Before marrying Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon was briefly wed to which brother of his?

Arthur, Prince of Wales, died in April 1502, under five months after the November 1501 wedding; the teenagers had corresponded in Latin but could not understand each other's spoken pronunciation.

What did Princess Elizabeth need in order to buy the fabric for her 1947 wedding gown?

Ration coupons: clothes rationing remained in force in 1947, so Elizabeth saved coupons and the government granted her 200 extra for the Norman Hartnell gown she wore to marry Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey.

Nancy Davis first contacted Ronald Reagan in 1949 because her name wrongly appeared where?

On a Hollywood blacklist: a list of suspected Communist sympathisers carried the name of another actress called Nancy Davis, so she sought help from Reagan as Screen Actors Guild president; they married in March 1952.

Ike and Tina Turner married in 1962 in which Mexican border city?

Tijuana: the couple wed there in 1962, two years after the birth of their son Ronnie; Tina, who became Tina Turner with 1960's 'A Fool in Love', later described the marriage as marked by years of abuse.

What is Marge Simpson's maiden name?

Marge Bouvier met Homer in detention at Springfield High: she was there for burning her bra in protest, he for smoking.

Olive Oyl starred in the Thimble Theatre comic strip for how long before Popeye arrived?

A decade: Olive debuted in December 1919 as the sweetheart of Ham Gravy, and Popeye only walked into the strip in January 1929, nearly ten years later.

Wagner's opera about the doomed lovers Tristan and Isolde premiered in 1865 in which city?

Munich: King Ludwig II of Bavaria bankrolled the 10 June 1865 premiere at the Court Theatre, and Hans von Bulow conducted even as Wagner was having an affair with his wife Cosima.

Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen lived in Room 100 of which New York address?

Hotel Chelsea: the pair took Room 100 of the West 23rd Street hotel in 1978; Spungen was found stabbed to death in its bathroom on 12 October 1978 and Vicious was charged with her murder.

Why did Ozzy Osbourne pick 4 July 1982 as the date to marry his manager Sharon Arden?

So he would never forget the anniversary: Ozzy picked Independence Day for the Maui wedding, he said, because the date could never slip his mind; two of their three children, Kelly and Jack, later co-starred in The Osbournes.

Which actress married Clark Gable in 1939 and died in a 1942 plane crash?

Carole Lombard married Clark Gable in Kingman, Arizona, on 29 March 1939; she died in January 1942 when TWA Flight 3 crashed into Potosi Mountain, Nevada, as she returned from a war-bond tour.