Almost four decades ago, Michael J. Fox, 63, and Tracy Pollan, 64, were cast as on-screen lovers on the hit TV series Family Ties.
“He was very cocky,” Pollan recalls. “He was funny, but he was cocky.”
While the two were smitten with one another, Fox was dating Nancy McKeon, the star of the TV sitcom Facts of Life, and Pollan was with Kevin Bacon, who started dating Kyra Sedgwick in 1987, the same year he split with Pollan.
The Back to the Future star and his now wife met again on the set of the 1988 film Bright Lights, Big City and both single, they grabbed the opportunity and married that same year.
“It sounds really horrible, but it was one of those things,” Fox told People in 1989. Joking about their relationship statuses, he continues, “Someone goes, ‘Did you hear that so-and-so aren’t together anymore?’ And you go, ‘Hmm, that’s too bad. Where’s the phone?’”