Diane Lane and Richard Gere teamed up once again for “Nights in Rodanthe,” which opened last weekend, but they’re not the only actors who can’t get enough of working with each other. From present day to Old Hollywood couples – and even some silly boys in between- here’s a look back at some of our favorite on-screen pairs.
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy: This classic old Hollywood duo was off-screen and on-screen couples. In their nine films together, including Woman of the Year and Adam’s Rib, they became notorious for their battle-of-the-sexes theme.
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton: Doing things just once was clearly not enough for Taylor and Burton. Not only did they marry twice, they appeared in 12 movies together some of which include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Cleopatra and The Taming of the Shrew.
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire: Rumor has it they hated each other off-screen, but you couldn’t tell from watching them dance away in their ten musicals they made together including Top Hat and Shall We Dance.
Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks: If Hanks wasn’t married to Rita Wilson, he should be married to Ryan. Time and time again America’s sweethearts have made us all believe in fairy tale endings with their undeniable chemistry in Joe Versus the Volcano, Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail.
Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler: Whether she’s a waitress and he’s a heartbroken wedding singer in the 80s themed The Wedding Singer or she has short-term memory loss and he has to romance her every day in 50 First Dates, Barrymore and Sandler are the cutest and funniest recurring couple.
Diane Lane and Richard Gere: Three movies, three very different roles. They were young musicians in love during the jazz age in The Cotton Club, a suburban couple in a troubled marriage in Unfaithful and two middle-aged strangers who strike up a romance in Nights in Rodanthe.
Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson: Who says the movie’s best on-screen couples have to be a man and a woman? These silly real life best friends have made us laugh again and again in The Cable Guy, Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, Night at the Museum, The Royal Tenenbaums, Starsky & Hutch and Zoolander.
Julia Roberts and George Clooney: Hollywood’s current classiest actors have made one of Hollywood’s current classiest couples in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and all three Ocean’s movies.
Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton: Film icons like Nicholson and Keaton were bound to end up in some movies together during their long reigns in Hollywood. They played a couple in the romantic comedy, Something’s Gotta Give and starred together in Warren Beatty’s epic Reds.
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