Before his death in 2018 at the age of 82,
Burt Reynolds hooked up with a staggering number of women over the course of his lifetime!
Although Burt was only married twice over the course of his life and only had one child, the
Hollywood legend got busy with a great number of his female peers. From Lori Nelson to Kate Edelman
Johnson, join Facts Verse as we take a look at every woman Burt Reynolds dated or hooked up with.
Lori Nelson One of the very first
women that Burt Reynolds was known to have hooked up with was Lori Nelson. In fact, it
was even rumored that Burt was engaged to Lori very early on in his career.
Lori was known for her performance in the 1955 horror movie Revenge of the Creature,
which garnered her the reputation of being an early scream queen. She became involved with Burt
around 1960. Though they were together for a few years, nothing much came of their relationship.
Inger Stevens Another notable figure that Burt Reynolds was
romantically linked to early on in his career was Swedish actress Inger Stevens. Burt had starred
alongside the actress in the picture Run, Simon, Run. During the filming of the picture, Burt
and Inger struck up a real-life romance that would sadly end in tragedy when Inger died of
a drug overdose in 1970, the same year that the aforementioned film was released. Burt
Reynolds ended up being the very last lover that Inger took in her life,
though the late actor never talked much about his romance to the late Swedish actress.
Mamie Van Doren A third notable actress that Burt
Reynolds was romantically linked to during the early years of his career was the sex symbol,
Mamie Van Doren. Although Burt and Mamie weren’t involved for very long, their romance has become
notorious thanks to a snide remark that Mamie made about Burt later on in her life.
According to Mamie Van Doren, Burt was about as substantive as a fast-food meal.
Faye Dunaway Burt Reynolds
was also reportedly linked up with Faye Dunaway for a short period of time early on his career.
Doris Day Doris Day is yet
another actress from Hollywood’s Golden Age that Burt Reynolds apparently hooked up with.
Judy Carne Despite hooking up with an incredible number
of women throughout his lifetime, Burt Reynolds was only married twice during his 82 years.
The first woman that Burt Reynolds was married to was a British actress by the name of Judy Carne.
Judy is most well-known to the public for her time on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, on which she became
famous thanks to her catchphrase: “sock it to me!” Burt Reynolds and Judy Carne tied the knot in
1963, though they would only remain married until 1965. Following the divorce, Burt would slowly
rise to become one of the most prominent leading men in Hollywood over the course of the 1970s.
Sarah Miles Burt Reynolds was
reported to have dated actress Sarah Miles for a short period of time in 1972. The two
met while they were filming a picture together by the name of The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing.
Catherine Deneuve Besides Sarah Miles,
there are numerous other costars that Burt Reynolds was rumored to have had notable
romantic flings with during the early years of his Hollywood stardom. Another actress
that Burt allegedly hooked up with during the production of one of his earlier starring vehicle
was Catherine Deneuve. Catherine had appearing alongside Burt in the 1975 film Hustle.
Lorna Luft From 1974 to 1975, it appeared that Burt
Reynolds was romantically involved with actress Lorna Luft. Lorna is perhaps better known to the
public as one of the daughters of Judy Garland, which also means she’s Liza Minnelli sister.
Miko Mayama Miko Mayama and Burt Reynolds appeared together
in the 1969 film Impasse, and they went on to have an on-and-off-again relationship that actually saw
the two figures living together for a period of time. Miko is a Japanese actress, and Burt was
allegedly living with her at the time that he became romantically involved with Dinah Shore.
Dinah Shore While Burt Reynolds
was allegedly living with Miko Mayama and even considering marrying the Japanese actress, he met
a woman by the name of Dinah Shore who he quickly fell head over heels in love with. Dinah had been
one of the most popular recording artists of the 1940s, but had become better known as a talk-show
host by the 1970s. Burt met the talk-show host during an appearance on her program.
Dinah was two decades Burt’s senior, but that didn’t stop the two from becoming romantically
involved. Burt became so madly in love with the talk-show host that he wanted to marry her,
though Dinah refused. Dinah had been married twice previously and had two children.
Burt and Dinah ended up separating after dating for four years. After Dinah passed
away in 1994, Burt Reynolds visited her grave every February until his own death in 2018.
Despite the massive impact that his relatively short relationship with Dinah Shore had on his
life, Burt Reynolds would go to his deathbed claiming that another woman
he had a short relationship with was the actual love of his life. However,
it seems that the actress that Burt felt this way about didn’t quite reciprocate the feelings.
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Adrienne Barbeau Adrienne Barbeau
is yet another costar that Burt Reynolds was romantically involved with for a time.
Burt met Adrienne while the two were filming the movie The Cannonball Run together. The Cannonball
Run was released in 1981, and Adrienne had risen to prominence during the prior decade thanks to
her time performing the character of Rizzo in the original Broadway production of Grease.
Chris Evert Not all of the famous
women that Burt Reynolds dated in his life were actresses. For almost the entire duration of 1977,
Burt Reynolds was romantically involved with a female tennis player named Chris Evert.
Tammy Wynette Tammy Wynette is another
figure outside of the acting sphere that Burt Reynolds was involved with during the late 1970s.
Burt and Tammy initially kept their relationship a secret, but the public later found out.
Sally Field In the mid-1970s,
Burt Reynolds landed himself the role that would go on to make him a bigger star than ever before.
That role was the titular lead role of Smokey in the film Smokey and the Bandit. Featuring
alongside Burt in the film was actress Sally Field. Like Burt had done so many times before,
he started up a romance with his female costar on the set of the movie. However, his romance
with Sally ended up being a bit more important to him than his other flings.
Although Burt Reynolds and Sally Field would only date from 1977 to 1981,
Burt would go to his deathbed claiming that Sally had been the love of his life. These
feelings don’t seem to have been reciprocated entirely by Sally herself, as she didn’t even
attend the late actor’s funeral! Although Burt would call Sally Field the love of his life, the
two never tied the knot together nor had any children. It may have been Dinah
Shore’s grave that Burt Reynolds visited every February in the years leading up to his death,
but it still seems that he had the strongest feelings for Sally Field.
Tawny Little Soon after breaking
up with Sally Field in 1981, Burt Reynolds could be seen dating Tawny Little later that same year.
Tawny was a beauty queen that was known for having won the Miss America pageant in the mid-1970s.
Loni Anderson After a little over two decades
of dating since his first divorce all the way back in the 1960s, Burt Reynolds finally decided to tie
the knot for a second and last time towards the end of the 1980s. Burt first started dating second
wife Loni Anderson in 1982, though they didn’t officially marry until 1988. Loni was a television
actress that was best known to the public for her time on the series WKRP in Cincinnati.
Burt Reynolds had always maintained a strong desire to have children,
and it was second wife Loni Anderson that finally made the
actor’s wish a reality! After Burt married Loni in 1988, the two went on to adopt a
child by the name of Quinton Anderson Reynolds. Sadly, Burt and Loni ended up divorcing in 1994
and Burt never remarried. However, that doesn’t mean that Burt Reynolds ended up dying alone!
Kate Edelman Johnson
One of the last people that Burt Reynolds was known to have been romantically involved with
was a film producer by the name of Kate Edelman Johnson. Burt and Kate reportedly started up a
relationship in 2003 and that relationship lasted for several years before finally dissolving.
Kate’s father was Golden Age Hollywood producer Louis F. Edelman, and much of
Kate’s work nowadays is managing the rights of her father’s old television shows and films.
Burt Reynolds was reportedly fairly distraught by his breakup with Kate, and their relationship
ended up being the actor’s last public romantic escapade before his death in 2018.
Although Hollywood legend Burt Reynolds was only married twice over the course of his 82 years of
life, he was romantically involved with many more women during his time than just his two wives. Now
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