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Before—and in between—her two marriages, Field dated several highprofile stars. Let’s kiss and tell.

Peter Duel

“I loved him, loved him, loved him, loved him.” That’s Field in 2007 reminiscing about the actor who played her brother-in-law, John Cooper, on TV’s Gidget. (He later starred in Love on a Rooftop and Alias Smith

and Jones.) The co-stars went to a hockey game and, in 1967, attended a charity ball together, but that was about all.

Lee Majors

To this day, she hasn’t divulged details about her brief 1967 fling with the actor, seven years before he starred in TV’s The Six Million Dollar Man.

Davy Jones

The cute British Monkee and the fresh-faced Flying Nun totally went steady for a few months during the height of their late-’60s TV glory days.

Burt Reynolds

While working on 1977’s Smokey and the

Bandit, the pair ignited off-screen as well as on, but flamed out after nearly five volatile years. Field writes in her new book that they were “a perfect match of flaws . . . instantaneous and intense.”

Johnny Carson

Heeeeere’s Johnny, and a fun fact from the Book of Love: The Tonight Show host pursued Field in the 1980s—and she wriggled out of commitment by telling him she was being committed. “I ultimately told him I was having a mental breakdown and being sent away,” she says.

Kevin Kline

Field went on a few dates with the Sophie’s

Choice star in 1982. Nearly a decade later, the two played passionate exes in the 1991 daytime drama spoof Soapdish.