However, their marriage was relatively short-lived, ending after just eight years and one child together.
Gould and Streisand were not even Hollywood stars when they met.
Gould played the lead role of Harry Bogen, while Streisand played the supporting role of Miss Marmelstein.
Streisand was only 19 at the time and they wed soon after, according toPeople.
Their son, Jason Gould, was born during the eight years the pair was together.
Since their divorce, both Gould and Streisand have had other romances and marriages.
Why did Elliott Gould and Barbra Streisand grow apart?
Over the years,Elliott Gould and Barbra Streisand’s lives and careers went in different directions.
Streisand went on to become a superstar singer, an Oscar winning actress, and a film director.
In 2020, Gould reflected on his first marriage to Streisand and why their marriage fell apart.
Gould said during an interview withCBS Sunday Morning.
“I said, ‘My question would be, ‘How could we have grown apart?’
And the answer to that is that we didn’t grow together.
And the reason for that was because she became more important than us.”
Despite their separation, Gould still had kinds words for his ex-wife.
“I also said to her, ‘We did great.
We made it very fast.
And nobody has what we have,'” he said.
“There’s you, and me, and our kid.”
