The most famous misalliance in cinema and on stage

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Misalliance - unequal marriages in which spouses have different social status, income or age. In our time, the origin does not play a big role. As for finances, everyone has long been accustomed to the situation where a rich man marries a poor woman. But as for the age … Here the popular rumor is still merciless and considers it to be something beyond the bounds of decency.

It's not uncommon for a rich man to fall under the charm of a young girl. Many people part with their wives because of this. As a rule, such relationships are rather short-term, but there are also examples of really happy couples.

The Vertinsky family

They were the "pioneers" of successful pop misalliances. Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky, a famous singer, who was very popular among the emigrants of the first, so-called "White Guard" wave. He lived in Paris, USA, and then moved to Shanghai. There I met a charming seventeen-year-old Georgian beauty - Lidia Vladimirovna Tsirgava.

At the time of the meeting, the singer was 51 years old. She, who saw him in the Renaissance cabaret, was captivated by the grace of Alexander Nikolaevich and fell under the magnetic influence of his charisma. It was also important in their relationship that they both lost their fathers. Alexander was generally a complete orphan and pushed the way for his talent with great efforts.

Even the fact that Lydia's mother was against this relationship did not have a strong impact on the couple. They got married and in this marriage they had two daughters - Marianna and Anastasia. Having played only five roles with Soviet cinema, textured and dazzlingly beautiful Lydia did not devote her life to cinema. She gave it to the whole family. The happy marriage lasted 17 years. After the death of Alexander Vertinsky, his faithful companion did not remarry.

And today, few people are left indifferent by the work. "Daughters" by Alexander Vertinsky - touching father's declaration of love

Edith Piaf

A Parisian "sparrow" with a surprisingly powerful voice, devoted all of herself to the stage, Edith Piaf began her career on the streets of Paris. Born almost blind, the girl lived in the world of sounds until the age of six. This explains her unique gift. She gave herself up to singing with all the strength that her fragile body was capable of. And she loved Edith with the same dedication. All her life, the singer fell in love and suffered. Only the last man in her life became an outlet for her and the very happiness she had been striving for all her life and did not find. Edith herself said: “I really loved only Marcel Cerdan. And all my life I've waited only for Theo Sarapo."

The Greek hairdresser, twenty-six-year-old Theofanis Lambukas, who took the pseudonym Theo Sarapo, once brought Edith, who was in the hospital after an accident, a cute doll. He brought a toy from his homeland, and by this act won the heart of the "sparrow".

Piaf was 45 years old, she suffered from cancer and arthritis, could barely walk, relieving her suffering with morphine. But Theo really loved her. Not for money, which Edith did not have, because she never learned to save it, and not for the beauty of her figure and face - the singer was outwardly far from the canons and ideals of that time.

He fell in love with Piaf for his inner strength and the amazing unspent tenderness that the singer gave Theophanis. Their happiness was short - they lived together for only a year. The great singer left in memory of herself Teofanis large debts, which he paid off to creditors for a long time after her death.

And there was in the life of the great Piaf and her escaping love - Marcel Cerdan.

Andrey Konchalovsky and Julia Vysotskaya

They met at a festival in Sochi in 1996. Andrew was then married, but his marriage was bursting at the seams. Therefore, when he saw Julia, he began to act decisively. First he invited the girl to dinner and then handed her a plane ticket. Julia was free as a bird and decided to go to Istanbul with a famous director, whose films starred such actors as Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell. She, only a year as a graduate of the acting department of the Belarusian Academy of Arts, absorbed everything new, like a sponge. Andrey, being 35 years older than her, opened new professional horizons for the girl, shared his experience and knowledge.

For a long time, their relationship was not officially registered. Natural wisdom told Julia not to rush things. On the day when Konchalovsky officially terminated his relationship with Irina Martynova (fourth wife), he proposed to Vysotskaya. In this marriage, they had two children. The Konchalovsky-Vysotskaya tandem confirms to this day that misalliances can be very successful.

From Western misalliance, Woody Allen, Michael Douglas, Nicolas Cage can boast of happy marital relations. In Russia, they live happily with their young husbands and wives, contrary to popular belief, Alla Pugacheva, Vladimir Kuzmin, Alexander Gradsky, Oleg Tabakov, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Lolita Milyavskaya. And this is not a complete list of movie and pop stars who confirm the old truth - "Love of all ages is submissive."

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