In every Hollywood era, there's no shortage
of headline-making romances. From Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall's legendary
passion, to the birth of Brangelina on the set of an action flick, these are the most
scandalous love affairs in entertainment history. Michelle Pfeiffer and John Malkovich 1988's Dangerous Liaisons may have been the
film that forever typecast John Malkovich as a conniving villain, and during production,
there were some real-life parallels going on behind the scenes. While Malkovich's character was trying to
seduce Michelle Pfeiffer's character, the two actors began an affair that would cause
the end of Malkovich's marriage to Glenne Headly. After their split, Headly apparently called
Malkovich, quote, "the root of all evil." Although Malkovich and Pfeiffer's affair ended
shortly after it started, it was a miracle it even began, according to Malkovich. As he later told Rolling Stone, "It's hard to believe Michelle Pfeiffer ever
said hello to me. Not that she's not memorable, God knows. But I sort of blocked it out. What I'm trying to say is, when I think of
the other person, I don't think of me as involved with them. They're uncorrupted by me. As if they were never troubled by my existence." "It's beyond my control." "LIAR! LIAR!" Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton After Billy Bob Thornton won a Golden Globe
in 2017 for his work on Goliath, Twitter went wild commenting on what appeared to be an
awkward moment between him and Laura Dern. It might've been nothing more than one actor
walking behind another, but the history between these two is hard to ignore, as they were
an item between 1997 and 1999. At the time, Thornton was quoted by Men's
Journal as saying, "I'm now happily involved with someone who's
my best friend." But by the end of the year, they were no longer
together. So what happened? Apparently, Angelina Jolie happened. Thornton and Jolie worked together on 1999's
Pushing Tin, and at some point along the way, that sparked up a relationship; they married
the following year. For Dern, it may have been a bit too sudden
to be a coincidence. Speaking to Talk Magazine, she said, "I left our home to work on a movie, and while
I was away, my boyfriend got married, and I've never heard from him again. It's like a sudden death. For no one has there been any closure or clarity." Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe When the tabloids spotted Meg Ryan and Russell
Crowe holding hands during the filming of Proof of Life, it created an enormous scandal. Besides the fact that both actors were huge
stars, Ryan was still married to Dennis Quaid at the time. Before the film was released, Ryan and Crowe
tried to avoid prying eyes, but the rumor mill forged on. They ultimately confirmed their relationship
by appearing in public together in July of 2000. But Ryan insists that her failed marriage
to Quaid wasn't because of Crowe or the scandal, as she told W Magazine that the union had
dissolved before the press caught on. But that didn't stop people from talking. There were questions about Ryan's sweetheart
public image and if it would wear off because of this affair. Even she had to question her status in the
public eye. At the time, she confessed to W Magazine, "I found myself in a hotel lobby in London
a few months ago, thinking, all of a sudden, 'So this is what it feels like to be the Scarlet
Woman." Feeling incapable of beginning another long-term
relationship, Ryan ended things with Crowe not long after. Billy Crudup and Claire Danes Billy Crudup and Mary-Louise Parker were together
for seven years after they met while performing on Broadway. But in 2003, when Parker was seven months
pregnant, they split. The next thing anyone knew, Crudup was with
Claire Danes. Crudup and Danes had just finished filming
Stage Beauty, a film about actors who have an affair. The tabloids had a field day with the scandal. Danes, who was just 24 at the time, was particularly
unprepared for the drama, which she spoke about years later on an episode of The Howard
Stern Show. "That was really hard. I didn't know how to not do that." "Right." "I just was in love with him. And needed to explore that and was 24." "Heaven have mercy on me." "Good girl. Keep going." Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie The alleged escapades of Angelina Jolie and
Brad Pitt on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith dwarfed most celebrity gossip of the past
50 years. Jolie was a veteran of a similar scandal with
Billy Bob Thornton, while Pitt was married to Jennifer Aniston at the time. The setting was ripe for controversy. While Jolie insists that no physical affair
took place before Pitt's split from Aniston, an emotional connection was formed on the
set. As Jolie explained to Vogue, "Because of the film, we ended up being brought
together to do all these crazy things, and I think we found this strange friendship and
partnership that kind of just suddenly happened. I think a few months in I realized, 'God,
I can't wait to get to work.'" When filming wrapped in 2004, they left the
set as quote, "very, very good friends," according to Jolie. The following year, Pitt separated from Aniston
and was then officially with Jolie. And thus began the Adventures of Brangelina. "So it speaks. But does it dance?" LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian In 2009, LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian were
filming the Lifetime movie Northern Lights when news broke out of an alleged affair between
the two after they were spotted together at a restaurant. At the time, Rimes was married to backup dancer
Dean Sheremet, and Cibrian was married to model Brandi Glanville. The bond that Rimes and Cibrian formed during
filming carried on after the cameras stopped rolling. Eventually, they both divorced their spouses
and got married to each other in 2011. Rimes later got emotional discussing the affair
during an interview with Giuliana Rancic. She insisted that nothing happened between
her and Cibrian outside of love scenes for the film, but she still expressed some regret
with how the whole thing played out. "I've never felt the hurt so deep, and I've
never felt the love so deep." "All at the same time?" "Yeah, I never knew that could happen." Ali MacGraw and Steve McQueen In 1972, shortly after they were cast in The
Getaway, Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw started a relationship that wore out the ink on tabloids
across the country. MacGraw was a rising star who had recently
married producer Robert Evans. McQueen was Hollywood's iconic bad boy. MacGraw later told Vanity Fair, "It was very, very passionate, and dramatic,
and hurtful, and ecstatic. It was pretty much a wipeout for both of us. But I think it's safe to say it would have
been impossible not to fall in love with Steve." After the film, MacGraw divorced Evans, and
married McQueen, and even paused her career for him. It wasn't until after their 1977 divorce that
she returned to the big screen with the 1978 film Convoy. "Steve McQueen is dead for 30-some odd years. I always thought he'd leave me. I mean it was this absurd…I don't know what
I thought. Except that I wasn't real." Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor The casting of Elizabeth Taylor in the title
role of 1963's Cleopatra was not without some controversy. She hadn't yet lived down her reputation as
a homewrecker from an earlier affair with Eddie Fisher, and some people at Twentieth
Century Fox were unsure if the risk was worth the price. They ultimately moved forward with casting
Taylor, but it turned out that their fears were grounded. Even with Fisher on location in Rome, Taylor
and her co-star Richard Burton, who played Mark Antony, started one of the most talked-about
affairs of the century during production. While taking a break from filming in 1962,
Burton and Taylor were snapped lounging together aboard a yacht. The published photos sent the public and the
paparazzi into a frenzy for more. The scandal was inescapable. Members of the press followed them at every
turn, even posing as extras to get inside information. The Vatican even publicly condemned the relationship. By 1963, their relationship was public and
the film was finally released. Early in 1964, mere days after she divorced
Fisher, Taylor and Burton were married. They divorced in 1974, remarried in 1975,
and then divorced again in 1976. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall are now
remembered as one of Hollywood's greatest couples, but their romance wasn't without
its victims. For one, Bogart was married to actress Mayo
Methot when he started shooting To Have and Have Not with Bacall in 1944. As Bacall recalled to TCM, she was so nervous
during her first scene with Bogart that she couldn't stop shaking. It was his patience with her that initially
caught her attention. Their off-screen chemistry soon took on a
new life that led to changes in the script that leveraged their blossoming relationship. Despite his feelings for Bacall, Bogart apparently
decided to try and work things out in his struggling marriage. Methot was battling alcoholism and made a
failed attempt at rehab before she and Bogart finally split. During this time, the private relationship
between two of Hollywood's biggest stars made for some incredible gossip. In 1945, Bogart and Methot divorced, and then
Bogart and Bacall married. "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow." Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini The love affair between Ingrid Bergman and
Roberto Rossellini began with a simple letter, in which Bergman wrote, "Dear Mr. RosselliniI, I saw your films Open
City and Paisan, and enjoyed them very much. If you need a Swedish actress who speaks English
very well, who has not forgotten her German, who is not very understandable in French,
and who in Italian knows only 'ti amo,' I am ready to come and make a film with you." From this came the suggestion to make the
film Stromboli. As Bergman and Rossellini pitched the movie
to producers and secured financing, their relationship grew. They traveled together throughout Italy prior
to shooting, much to the dismay of Bergman's husband, Petter Lindstrom. According to the Bergman biography As Time
Goes By, Rossellini seemed open to creating a scandal while shooting the film. He was happy to be photographed holding hands
with the beautiful actress, and he even gave the press inside knowledge of her broken marriage. Before Stromboli was finished shooting, Bergman
was pregnant with Rossellini's child, and the truth of the affair was all over the American
airwaves. She was ostracized from the American film
industry and wouldn't return to favor for more than seven years. Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner Frank Sinatra was no stranger to affairs. He was even arrested on charges of adultery
in 1938. The famous crooner married his first wife
Nancy in 1939 and they had three children together. But in 1948, he and actress Ava Gardner started
what would become a legendary affair. It wasn't until 1950 that the world found
out about them, as Sinatra was labeled a cheater and Gardner a home-wrecker. While Gardner was vilified for her role in
the affair and considered a gold digger, the scandal hurt Sinatra's career most. According to the book Sinatra: Behind the
Legend, his shows started suffering, he lost his recording contract, and his voice was
failing. In 1951, after Nancy gave him the divorce
he sought, he married Gardner. Their union, however, would be marked with
great challenges. They battled publicly, and Gardner had two
abortions. Their relationship ended in 1953, with the
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