Christiane Harlan, acting in the film in which she met her husband, Stanley Kubrick (pictured right).

January 15, 1958
Couple: Stanley Kubrick & Christiane Harlan

Stanley Kubrick didn’t know that he was going to be a film legend as he set out to make his third feature film. The married director also didn’t know that he would fall in love.

In 1956, Kubrick’s first marriage to Toba Metz was deteriorating when he went to Munich to make the war movie Paths to Glory. While on location, he cast a young Christiane Harlan to play a small role in the final scene of the movie.

Since Kubrick shot the film in chronological order, he and Harlan spent the entire production getting to know one another. By the time she shot her scene, they were already engaged.

The two were married on January 15, 1958, shortly after Kubrick divorced his first wife.

Stanley and Christiane’s relationship may have begun under questionable circumstances, but it turned out to be more than just a fling, lasting 41 years (until his death in 1999).

Besides, all is fair in love and war. That goes for war movies too.