Mark Antony and Cleopatra

They may have been the world's first super couple. In 37BC the Roman leader and the queen of Egypt formed a romantic alliance that saw them govern a large portion of the ancient world. Their tempestuous affair included passion, war and death -- the Posh and Becks of their day.

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard

In the late 1930s Carole Lombard was the highest paid star in Hollywood, earning five times the salary of the president of the United States. She was cinema's leading lady and, after playing Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind, Gable was their leading man.

The loved-up A-listers married in 1939 and lived happily on their ranch where they would raise chickens and refer to each other as 'Ma' and 'Pa', until Lombard's tragic death in an airplane crash in 1942.

Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner

He was the nation's number one singer and she was a sexy screen goddess. From the moment Sinatra spotted Gardner in the late 1940s he declared he was going to marry her -- and wasn't going to let the fact that he was already married stand in the way.

Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio

Their marriage may have only lasted 274 days but this power couple captivated a nation. He was America's best loved baseball player and Monroe was their silver screen sweetheart. After a passionate affair in the 1950s they reconnected years later with rumours rife that the pair were set to remarry shortly before Monroe's death in 1962. For 20 years DiMaggio sent roses three times a week to Monroe's grave.

Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco

More than 30 million people tuned in to watch the marriage of the gorgeous Oscar-award winning actress and the world's wealthiest bachelor in 1956. The glamorous couple met at the Cannes Film Festival in 1955 and remained happily married for more than 25 years until Kelly's tragic death after a car accident.

JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy

The American president and his wife were the first First Couple to publicly appear as a team. The first lady won as much public attention and approval as her other half for her grace, intelligence, style and entertaining skills.

Such was her mass appeal that JFK once joked he'd been the man who had accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy on her trip to France.

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

Their sizzling chemistry on the set of Cleopatra meant the couple garnered as many headlines as the film.

Stellar careers, good looks, wealth and a rocky relationship that saw them marry, and split, twice, ensured Burton and Taylor were Hollywood's top couple in the 1960s and 1970s.

Farrah Fawcett and Lee Majors

The couple became the first ever husband and wife to star in separate top rated shows at the same time. She was the sex symbol of Charlie's Angels and he was the Six Million Dollar Man.

They dated for five years before marrying in 1973 and appeared on multiple magazine covers at the height of their romance. They divorced in 1982 but Majors paid a tearful tribute to Farrah after her death from cancer this year calling her "an angel forever".

Bruce Willis and Demi Moore

Two of the movie industries biggest names in the 1980s paired up in 1987. Willis was the action hero of the era for his part of John McClean in the Die Hard movies while Moore was a desirable female lead winning top roles in A Few Good Men, Ghost and Indecent Proposal. The duo, who have three daughters together, had one of the most envied marriages in Hollywood lasting from 1987 to 2000.

Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love

The power couple for Generation X. Cobain and Love were the king and queen of the grunge scene in the early 1990s. Their car crash lives, ripped clothing and frequent drug use meant they frequently created more headlines for their personal lives than their music. Cobain committed suicide in 1994 but his legacy to music lives on while Love has been dubbed 'the most controversial woman in the history of rock' by Rolling Stone magazine.