# Longest lasting first marriages of celebrities **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978 "2009-01-12T21:10:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/81 "2016-03-31T19:57:31Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Norman and Peggy Lloyd hold the record, at 75 years and 2 months, set on her death in 2011. And he is still active and working at 101; listed as the oldest working actor in Hollywood. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/82 "2016-04-01T01:08:19Z")
Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon, married since 1985 to Yasmin Parveneh. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/83 "2016-04-01T17:54:45Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon, married since 1985 to Yasmin Parveneh. Thirty-one years? You’re kidding, right? Come back if they’re still married in 2055. And they still won’t have broken the Lloyds’ record. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/84 "2016-04-01T18:00:20Z")
Charles Lane and Ruth Covell Lane, 71 years. Lane has 364 acting credits in the IMDB, in movies (24 in 1942 alone) and television, usually in small but always memorable roles. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/85 "2016-04-01T19:22:56Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Charles Lane and Ruth Covell Lane, 71 years. Lane has 364 acting credits in the IMDB, in movies (24 in 1942 alone) and television, usually in small but always memorable roles. [Pssst.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10693678&postcount=26) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/86 "2016-09-15T03:29:46Z")
Larry D. Mann, who appeared in almost everything in the 1960s and 1970s–but might best be remembered as the voice of Yukon Cornelius, had been married to his wife for 67 years at the time of his death in 2014. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/87 "2016-09-16T14:50:41Z")
I looked up Bobby Doerr, oldest living member of Baseball’s Hall of Fame and the second oldest living baseball player. It says he was married from 1938 to his wife’s death in 2003. She lived with multiple sclerosis since the 1940s. Oldest living baseball player is Eddie Carnett. His SABR biography says he got married in 1940 (three months after meeting her at a county fair) and as of 2006 they were still married. Another story on [thisgreatgame.com](http://thisgreatgame.com) says they recently celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary. [http://www.thisgreatgame.com/eddie-carnett.html](http://www.thisgreatgame.com/eddie-carnett.html) ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/88 "2016-09-16T17:36:45Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > Oldest living baseball player is Eddie Carnett. His SABR biography says he got married in 1940 (three months after meeting her at a county fair) and as of 2006 they were still married. Another story on [thisgreatgame.com](http://thisgreatgame.com) says they recently celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary. > [They Were There: The TGG Interview with Eddie Carnett](http://www.thisgreatgame.com/eddie-carnett.html) Okay, well if Mrs. Carnett lived for at least two months beyond their 75th anniversary, the Carnetts will have beaten the record held by the Lloyds, assuming you consider Eddie a “celebrity.” I’ve never heard of him, but I’m no baseball fan. Was he well known during his career, or is he mostly notable for currently being the oldest living player, at a few weeks under 100? FYI, Norman Lloyd is still alive! He appeared in last year’s Judd Apatow film, “Trainwreck.” I started watching it to see him, but just couldn’t stand Amy Schumer, and turned it off less than 20 minutes in. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/89 "2016-09-16T22:45:04Z")
It wouldn’t be the record, but would still be in the upper percentile. Will and Ariel Durant, authors of, amongst many other works, the eleven volume Story of Civilization, were married for seventy years. He was 26 and she was 15 when they married, and they died within a couple weeks of each other.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/90 "2016-09-17T21:24:49Z")
Jerry Clower was married to Homerline for 51 years, until his death. According to his book, neither of them ever even dated anyone else. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/91 "2016-09-18T15:38:57Z")
Similarly, Tina Fey says she lost her virginity when she met her husband at the age of 24 (and presumably never had a boyfriend before that time). ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/92 "2016-09-19T17:21:57Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Similarly, Tina Fey says she lost her virginity when she met her husband at the age of 24 (and presumably never had a boyfriend before that time). News flash **Wendell Wagner** : plenty of people have had boyfriends/girlfriends without “going all the way.” But we’re getting off the topic, unless you expect this thread to be resurrected in 2076, when Tina and her husband will have been married for more than 75 years, and she will be 107 years old and her husband 115. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/93 "2016-09-19T23:43:45Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > News flash **Wendell Wagner** : plenty of people have had boyfriends/girlfriends without “going all the way.” For that matter, there’ve also been plenty of people that have gone all the way without having had “boyfriends/girlfriends”. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/94 "2016-09-20T10:38:41Z")
Read some websites and her book. It seems clear that she didn’t have a boyfriend before meeting her husband. Search for the video of the interview by David Letterman. (I can’t link to anything because I’m on vacation and the computer in the internet café doesn’t let me.) She says explicitly that she very much wanted to lose her virginity and couldn’t get any guy interested in her. And please quit using sarcasm when you reply to me. Of course I know the difference. Do you think that I’m impressed by your sarcasm? ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/95 "2016-09-20T16:58:58Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Read some websites and her book. It seems clear that she didn’t have a boyfriend before meeting her husband. Search for the video of the interview by David Letterman. (I can’t link to anything because I’m on vacation and the computer in the internet café doesn’t let me.) She says explicitly that she very much wanted to lose her virginity and couldn’t get any guy interested in her. > > And please quit using sarcasm when you reply to me. Of course I know the difference. Do you think that I’m impressed by your sarcasm? Lighten up, **Wendell**. A) I didn’t mean any offense, b) it’s not like I’ve been constantly haranguing you with sarcasm – I don’t recall any recent interactions with you directly, c) your post was completely off-topic, and d) it didn’t reference this addition information you’ve now provided. You made it sound like she lost her virginity with her husband, therefore she had no previous boyfriends. So I made a little joke. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/96 "2017-01-08T05:00:11Z")
Peter Mark Richman, who is **not** Al Traina, has been married to his wife for 63 years. In May of this year, it will be 64. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/97 "2017-02-20T21:55:05Z")
Just happened across the fact that Chuck Berry has been married to the same woman for 68 years. I had no idea. The woman must be a saint. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/98 "2021-09-09T13:55:27Z")
While this isn’t a celebrity, it was someone whose off-screen television presence contributed to many of us Boomers’ childhood TV: Reinald Werrenrath was one of the writers for the TV series “Wild Kingdom.” He died in 2019 at 104! His wife is still living at 107! They were married for 82 years! ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/99 "2021-09-10T19:00:02Z")
They’re not really Cafe Society celebs but Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter just hit their 75th anniversary. ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978/100 "2021-09-10T23:31:57Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Elizabeth II and Phillip have been married over 61 years. Just to update this, they made it to 73 years and 4 months. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-lasting-first-marriages-of-celebrities/480978.md?page=6)