With Carolyn-JFK Jr. ‘Love Story’ wrapped, who could lead season 2?

The hit FX series “Love Story” this week wrapped up the tragic romance of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. Paul Anthony Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon portray the couple, whose relationship dominated headlines (including ours) until their July 1999 deaths aboard a doomed private flight en route to Martha’s Vineyard, which also killed Bessette’s sister, Lauren.

Already crowned FX’s most-watched limited series ever on Hulu and Disney+, the pressure is surely on for Connor Hines, who created the FX/Hulu retelling, to follow up that success. He told Vanity Fair he’d consider Taylor and Burton for round two, as they “have the right intensity.”

But Liz and Dick aren’t the only other Hollywood couples whose off-screen love story would provide so much grist for the mill. Here are a handful of famous pairings who could easily make for great season two television.

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

Liz and Dick were each married — she to fourth husband Eddie Fisher, and he to first wife Sybil Burton — when they first met in 1962, on the set of “Cleopatra,” which starred Taylor as the titular Queen of Egypt and Burton as Mark Antony. Not even the Vatican taking offense to their swift affair could dissuade Taylor and Burton.

This month marks 62 years since the pair first said “I do” on the Ides of March 1964, which, as Vogue previously pointed out, might have foretold all anyone needed to know about where the relationship was going. There romance was chock-full of professional collaborations — a dozen total films, including, most famously, 1966’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — and fights, often exacerbated if not ignited by alcohol.

They split up in 1974, a month after celebrating a decade of marriage, only to wed again in a secret ceremony in October 10, 1975. That union ended the following summer, on July 29, 1976.

Both stars came into the relationship with kids of their own — three from Taylor, two from Burton, including “Grey’s Anatomy” star Kate Burton — but together, they shared adoptive daughter Maria Burton, 65. Burton also adopted Taylor’s daughter Liza, 68.

By the time she died at age 79 in 2011, Taylor had been married eight times to seven men.

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall

The “Casablanca” star was already in a contentious marriage with actress Mayo Methot in 1943, when his Hollywood fairytale started to unfold with fellow native New Yorker Bacall, then 19 and nearly 25 years his junior.

They were set to play opposite one another in Bacall’s big screen debut, “To Have and to Have Not,” with Bogart kissing the ingenue just three weeks into filming, according to her 1978 autobiography.

The two wed in May 1945, marking Bogie’s fourth marriage to an actress, which led the couple to agree that Bacall would “put my career second. … He said, ‘If you want a carer more than anything, I will do everything I can to help you … but I will not marry you. … I know it doesn’t work.’ He was right.”

They co-starred in four more films together, including “The Big Sleep,” and “Key Largo,” and welcomed a son and daughter prior to Bogart’s death at age 57 in January 1957.

Bacall eventually remarried actor Jason Robards, with whom she welcomed a son, Sam Robards. But Bogey’s eldest child, Steve Bogart, told People in 1996 that his father “was the great love of her life, and she his.”

Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh

It’s unclear whether the thespians first met in 1934 or 1936, but it was love at first sight for Leigh, though both she and Olivier were married — she to Herbert Leigh, he to Jill Esmond — with a child each. Their affair began in 1937, when both were set to star in the film “Fire Over England.”

A 2007 biography quotes Olivier as saying his affair with Leigh “was something different” than his prior infidelities: “This wasn’t just out of lust. This was love that I really didn’t ask for but was drawn into.”

Newly minted Oscar winner Leigh had already begun exhibiting signs of what is now recognized as bipolar disorder by the time she and Olivier were granted divorces in 1940 and wed later that year. Neither actor had custody of their children.

The couple continued acting alongside each other on stage and screen to varying degrees of success. Following their 1943 return to the U.K., Leigh was diagnosed with tuberculosis, which required weeks of hospitalization. Leigh suffered from undiagnosed bipolar disorder, and her mental health was exacerbated by a 1940s miscarriage and Olivier’s rising fame.

Leigh suffered a nervous breakdown in 1953, on the heels of which she confessed to Olivier that she’d been unfaithful. At that point, Leigh also reportedly began exhibiting erratic behavior.

A miscarriage in 1956 spurred a months-long depression, with both Leigh and Olivier stepping out on one another in 1958 — the former with Jack Merivale and the latter with the much younger Joan Plowright.

Leigh and Olivier divorced in 1960, at which point he married Plowright, with whom he’d welcome three children. Olivier and Leigh continued a sporadic written correspondence up until her death in 1967, with Merivale even contacting him in her final days. Olivier even reportedly assisted in funeral arrangements.

Honorary mentions: Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner

Wood and Wagner were each other’s first and third spouses, both coming into their 1972 marriage with a daughter each. The two also eventually welcomed a daughter together, actress Natasha Gregson Wagner.

But the actors’ romance is best remembered not for their love but for Wood’s 1981 drowning at age 43, in which Wagner was officially dubbed a “person of interest” in 2018. He was cleared of involvement in May 2022.