TIWH: July 19th

July 19, 2010 | by Daniella Flores

July 19, 1966

Frank Sinatra & Mia Farrow

Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow married in 1966 at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas after two years of courtship. The couple met during the filming of Von Ryan’s Express. The coupling surprised many since Farrow was 21 at the time and Sinatra was 50, making Farrow younger than two of her stepchildren. There was much adoration between the two however. Mia called Frank “Charlie Brown” after the famed Peanuts character, and he called her “my 22-year-old wife with the 45-year-old mind.”

The couple divorced two years later.  After realizing that working on Sinatra’s 1968 film The Detective would overrun what would be one of her most famous films, Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby, she broke her agreement with him and decided not to quit her current film. Sinatra came on Polanski’s set and served  her with divorce papers.