{"id":1226,"date":"2023-06-26T06:30:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T04:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2023-06-26T06:30:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T04:30:41","slug":"old-and-new-photos-of-sam-elliott-and-katharine-ross-show-that-true-love-does-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=1226","title":{"rendered":"Old and new photos of Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross show that true love does exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of their dazzling, larger-than-life lives, Hollywood stars often attract a lot of public attention. Others, though, such as iconic Hollywood actress Sam Elliott, have drawn attention for a totally different reason: to demonstrate to the world that real love does exist.<\/p>\n<p>When Sam Elliott met his future wife, Katharine Ross, she was already a well-known actress\u2014and married. But it was love at first sight for Elliott, and he knew he\u2019d have to be patient.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1-1-300x180.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1-1-300x180.webp 300w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1-1.webp 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sam Elliott, 77, has been married to his adored wife Katharine Ross for more than three decades and counting.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Elliott has a lot of female admirers all around the globe. But the Hollywood star has only one lady in his sights: his wife of over four decades, Katharine Ross.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2-240x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2-240x300.webp 240w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2.webp 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sam and Katharine\u2019s passionate relationship could be right out of a Hollywood romantic comedy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/3-300x240.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/3-300x240.webp 300w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/3.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/4-1-300x278.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/4-1-300x278.webp 300w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/4-1.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They met when Katharine Ross earned the main part in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969. Meanwhile, Elliott characterized his function as a \u00abshadow on the wall.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/5-1-300x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/5-1-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/5-1-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/5-1.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elliott said to AARP The Magazine that he was too nervous to approach her at the time, saying, \u00abI didn\u2019t dare try to talk to her then.\u00bb She was the star of the show. I was a glorified extra in a bar scene, a shadow on the wall.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/6-224x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/6-224x300.webp 224w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/6.webp 764w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elliott was smitten with Ross right away, but it wasn\u2019t until they met again on the set of The Legacy in 1978 that he ventured to connect with her.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/7-240x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/7-240x300.webp 240w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/7.webp 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They clicked right away, and six years later, they were married.<\/p>\n<p>Ross divorced her then-husband in 1979 and married Elliott in 1984.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/8-300x260.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/8-300x260.webp 300w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/8.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ross, who is five years Elliott\u2019s senior, was married to her fourth spouse at the time, but Elliott had never married before.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/9-1-219x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/9-1-219x300.webp 219w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/9-1.webp 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elliott and Ross brought their daughter, Cleo Rose, into the world the same year they married.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/10-300x211.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/10-300x211.webp 300w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/10.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With a history of disastrous marriages, Ross couldn\u2019t have been sure how well her fifth (!) would go, but three decades later, she knows she made the right choice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/11-300x213.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/11-300x213.webp 300w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/11.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00abWe share a sensibility, but we also work hard to be together.\u00bb You work through it, not away from it. That\u2019s how relationships endure, according to Elliott.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/12-196x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/12-196x300.webp 196w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/12.webp 652w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elliott and Ross even got to realize a long-held ambition of theirs: to share the screen as husband and wife. They accomplished this twice: in The Hero and in Love Letters, the latter of which Elliott describes as a career highlight.<\/p>\n<p>So, how does Elliott account for the couple\u2019s success?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/13-300x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/13-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/13-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/13.webp 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00abMutual love and respect,\u00bb he adds, adding that Ross is \u00aba pretty stable girl who has been around the block.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/14-667x1024-1-195x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/14-667x1024-1-195x300.webp 195w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/14-667x1024-1.webp 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, perseverance is essential. \u00abThere are peaks and valleys, like everything else, but you have to push on,\u00bb Elliott told the San Francisco Chronicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of their dazzling, larger-than-life lives, Hollywood stars often attract a lot of public attention. 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