Actress Sandra Dee and crooner Bobby Darin were the Hollywood it couple of the early 1960s, marrying just months after first meeting. But the marriage was troubled from the start, as both partners were unable to escape the effects of their damaging childhoods.

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Alicia’s Receipts

Dream Lovers: The Magnificent Shattered Lives of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee – by Their Son Dodd Darin (thriftbooks.com)

Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin get hitched (ew.com)

Sandra Dee: The Complicated Life of a Sweetheart (Jerry Skinner Documentary) (YouTube)

What happened to BOBBY DARIN? (YouTube)

Shooting Stars: The Ballad of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee (vanityfair.com)

Sandra Dee of Gidget fame suffered ‘tremendous heartbreak’ from Bobby Darin divorce…after being sexually abused by her stepfather for years (dailymail.co.uk)