Ten years on, Mr & Mrs Smith finally become the Pitts

"They're the Bogart and Bacall of the modern age, and now they've finally made it official"

Actor Brad Pitt and actress Angelina Jolie earlier this year

Sarah Caden,

When actress Lauren Bacall died earlier this month, her obituaries were, as she had predicted, "full of Bogart". It is nearly 60 years since Bacall's first husband, Humphrey Bogart, died and yet theirs remains one of those Hollywood fairytale romances that endures in the imagination.

These days, we beat ourselves up for being a celebrity-obsessed culture, but, when it comes to Tinseltown fairytales, we've always been suckers. Or romantics, if you'd like to put a kinder spin on it.