Smith’s marriage to Ann-Margret was actually not the first time the actor had taken a wife. Remembering Roger Smith (1932-2017), one of the stars of "77 Sunset Strip" and husband to Ann-Margret for 50 years… (Portrait by Joe Shere.) #RogerSmith #77SunsetStrip #AnnMargret #JoeShereĪ post shared by Photography Agency on at 4:53pm PDT “I think everyone thought I was pregnant because I was crying though the whole thing. They eloped to Las Vegas, and Margret says the room they exchanged vows in was filled with cigarette smoke and far from glamorous. “This is not the way I envisioned my wedding,” she later said. Smith, 34, and Margret, 27, would do just that on May 8th, 1967. “I knew on the third date that we were going to be married,” Margret told CBN in 2016, “It just felt right.” I was impressed.” It didn’t take long for Margret to reciprocate. Due to the success of Viva Las Vegas (1964), many shipped her and Elvis Presley at the time, but it was obvious that Smith was the man for her. “Every other woman I met was falling all over me,” Smith said in 1976, “but this innocent, fresh-faced beauty only spoke to me when I spoke to her and the rest of the time ignored me. The saving grace for Smith was a chance encounter with Ann-Margret, who was one of the biggest actresses in the world at the time. ![]() After that, he made only two more acting appearances: Rogue’s Caper, and Criminal Affair, both of which were released in 1968. His divorce from Victoria Shaw was finalized in 1964, and his attempt to parlay the success of Sunset Strip into a television adaptation of Mister Roberts (1965) lasted only one season. He was diagnosed with a blood clot in his brain in 1962, which forced him to exit 77 Sunset Strip for a time, and even upon his return, he and rest of the main cast were let go the following year. The 1960s were a difficult time for Smith.
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