When two people choose to spend their lives together, it’s always a beautiful journey—and for actor James Garner, it began with love at first sight.
Garner met Lois Clarke at a friend’s barbecue in 1956, and the connection was instant. In his 2012 memoir, he recalled, “I fell in love for the first and last time on August 1, 1956… It was love at first sight. The thunderbolt.”
Just two weeks later, on August 17, the couple married in a simple courthouse ceremony in Beverly Hills. Their love story is one worth remembering.