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2. Judy Carne

Actress Judy Carne in 1969
Actress Judy Carne poses outside ATV Studios during rehearsals for her show ‘Sock it to Me’, in 1969. | Jim Gray/ Keystone/ Getty Images

The Hollywood Reporter explains that Burt Reynolds was married to Judy Carne, known for NBC’s Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, from 1963 to 1966. According to The Washington Post, Carne appeared on ’60s staples such as Gidget, I Dream of Jeannie, and The Patty Duke Show. They married after a six-month courtship. During their short marriage, she was best known as his wife.

And after her time as the “sock-it-to-me girl” on Laugh-In, she “spectacularly flamed out,” the Post reports. “When she faced legal trouble in the late 1970s, however, her calls to Reynolds, then on top of the world after his appearance in Smokey and the Bandit, were not returned.”