10 GREATEST LOVE STORIES

They met at an audition in 1983, but sparks didn't fly. A decade later, Ted and Mary became friends on the set of Pontiac Moon and he invited her on a canoe trip.

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10 TED DANSON & MARY STEENBURGEN

"It was very magical," he recalls. "We came back in love." Married since 1995, the pair never spends more than 24 hours apart. "[Our love] just gets more profound and deeper as we go through the blessings and joys, but also the hurdles, of life together," says Mary. "He is my partner in the deepest sense of the word."

9 PRINCE RAINIER III & GRACE KELLY

After meeting at a photo shoot in Monaco, Grace and the prince fell in love via handwritten letters. "She truly married for love," Grace's friend Joan Dale, who attended their lavish 1956 wedding, said. "Although it was challenging to give up her acting career...her greatest joy and priority in life was to be a loving wife and mother."

8 PETER HERMANN & MARISKA HARGITAY

"Who is that Clark Gable, superman guy?" Mariska asked when she spotted Peter on the set of Law & Order: SVU in 2002. They wed two years later when Mariska was 40. "I waited and married the right one," says the star, who shares three kids with Peter.

7 ANNETTE BENING & WARREN BEATTY