Harrison Ford met Melissa Mathison in 19777, and the couple would go on to become Hollywood royalty as an actor and a screenwriter, respectively. By the time they married in 1984, Mathison had written the award-winning screenplay for E.T., and Ford had starred in three Star Wars films and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Six years later, Ford became one of the highest-paid actors in the world when he earned $7 million ($16.8m/£13m today) for his role in the 1990 legal drama Presumed Innocent. But while his career was going from strength to strength, his marriage to Mathison was headed for the rocks.

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