Hollywood romances were around before Jennifer Aniston met Brad Pitt, or Will met Jada. They were around even before Kurt Russell married Goldie Hawn (remember them?) One of the most legendary romances came during the black-and-white film era, when the star of Casablanca Humphrey Bogart, then 45, met his co-star, a former model named Lauren Bacall on the set of To Have and Have Not. Bacall was just 19 at the time, and Bogart was married to his third wife, but their romance could not be denied.

On this day, May 21, 1945, a year after their meeting and three months after his divorce Humphrey Bogart wed Lauren Bacall on a farm in Lucas, Ohio.

Lauren Bacall recalled the wedding in her memoir “By Myself and Then Some”: “When I reached Bogie, he took my hand – the enormous, beautiful white orchids I was holding were shaking themselves to pieces; as I stood there, there wasn’t a particle of me that wasn’t moving visibly…As I glanced at Bogie, I saw tears streaming down his face – his ‘I do’ was strong and clear, though. As Judge Shettler said, “I now pronounce you man & wife,’ Bogie and I turned toward each other – he leaned to kiss me – I shyly turned my cheek – all those eyes watching made me very self-conscious. He said, ‘Hello, Baby’. I hugged him and was reported to have said, ‘Oh, goody.’ Hard to believe, but maybe I did.”