However, the couple were only together for a year before calling it quits in 1979.
The former pair were then reunited in the 1992 film Night Track, where they played a married couple.
Speaking about playing her ex-husband's onscreen wife, Lillian said on set at the time: “It’s strange that I happen to be playing my ex-husband’s wife, but it really isn’t that hard because neither of us harbored any bad feelings after our marriage and we both respect each other as actors.