Real life star is born couples
Ike and Tina Turner
Sonny and Cher
Charles and Diana
Not really..
Sonny was more a businessman anyway and later went into Politics and was quite content being out of show business ..
Charles was and is a Prince..Diana changed nothing for his status... and Diana is dead
Ike and Tina comes closest but they never seemed like a very loving couple..
It would be interesting for people to come up with closer examples in all of the entertainment field..
Please be my guest. I just got the ball rolling. I disagree though. At certain points in time, there was a “star is born” dynamic between those couples. It may not have endured, but alas what does?
shareI believe the OP's examples were all spot-on. Sonny made Cher the shining star she became, Princess Diana, once she found her voice, became the People's Princess & will forever be the heroine of her history, & Ike turned Tina Turner into a star, & will be forever remembered as a despicable wife-beater.
But, allegedly, the original tale was based on Barbara Stanwyck & her husband Frank Fay, a then-popular comedian. It's a bit of a sad story, although his downfall came not so much from alcoholism as support for the Nazi regime. Worth Googling, it's a rather interesting look into Old Hollywood.