# Longest Married Hollywood Couples **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 21, 2008, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199 "2008-03-21T05:43:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/1 "2008-03-21T05:43:04Z")
By my mathematics Karl Malden and his spuse are about a month away from the record held by Bob and Dolores Hope Hope was married around 69 years and 5 months Malden was married on 18 December 1938. I understand Norman and Peggy Lloyd were married in 1936 but he is probably not as well known as the other two actors. Anyone else come into consideration? (When I say Hollywood, I do main the acting community). ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/2 "2008-03-21T11:06:41Z")
I think Hepburn and Tracy might be next on the list. Followed up by Russell and Hawn, then Robbins and Sarandon. What? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/3 "2008-03-21T11:58:07Z")
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward have to be on that list too. They were married in January of 1958, which gives them 50 years. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/4 "2008-03-21T12:06:07Z")
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russel have been domestic partners for 21 years. They have never married. Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn were also not married. Their relationship lasted from 1942 until Tracy’s death in 1967, 25 years. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/5 "2008-03-21T12:29:17Z")
If Mel Brooks hadn’t lost Anne Bancroft to cancer in '05, they’d be celebrating their 44th anniversary this year. Not the longest, but certainly remarkable in Hollywood. Which is the shortest formal marriage, among the celebs? Less than a day, surely!? ETA to **longhair75** : Woosh? Note the smiley. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/6 "2008-03-21T12:59:13Z")
[QUOTE=Charlie Tan] Which is the shortest formal marriage, among the celebs? Less than a day, surely!? [/QUOTE] Britney Spears and Jason Alexander were married about 2 days. Zsa Zsa Gabor’s bigamous marriage to Felipe de Alba may have been a little shorter. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/7 "2008-03-21T13:02:57Z")
[QUOTE=bibliophage] Britney Spears and Jason Alexander\*\*\*\*\* were married about 2 days. [/QUOTE] \*No, not THAT Jason Alexander… ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/8 "2008-03-21T13:08:37Z")
[QUOTE=longhair75] Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russel have been domestic partners for 21 years. They have never married. Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn were also not married. Their relationship lasted from 1942 until Tracy’s death in 1967, 25 years. [/QUOTE] You don’t say? Funny, you’d think I would have _caught_ that before I posted those particular pairings, along with ANOTHER unmarried long-term couple, in a post that ended, literally, with a cartoon smiley face… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/9 "2008-03-21T13:09:08Z")
I wish my typing was better _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/10 "2008-03-21T13:09:58Z")
Friend Charlie Tan, Sorry, I did miss the smiley. ;o) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/11 "2008-03-21T14:43:28Z")
Once again we can thank SDMB favorite and perennial trivia answer, [Charles Lane.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485272/bio) Married 71 years – he outlived his wife. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/12 "2008-03-21T15:11:53Z")
Susan Lucci has been married to Helmut Huber since 1969. She started on All My Children 3 months later as Erica Kane who has been been married 12 times. (Some not valid) George Burns and Gracie Allen were married 38 years, until her death in 1964. Meryl Streep and Don Gummer have been married 30 years. Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti were married (the second time) for 41 years until his death last year. That is not counting their 5 year first marriage to each other. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/13 "2008-03-21T15:19:39Z")
[Charles Boyer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boyer#Personal_life) and Pat Paterson were married 44 years. Three days after she died, he committed suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/14 "2008-03-21T15:30:16Z")
[Martin Sheen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sheen#Personal_life) has been married to wife Janet for 46 years. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/15 "2008-03-21T16:38:58Z")
ozzie davis and ruby dee: 56 years. (missed a more recent on-line article about davis’ death). i worked with them eons ago when they came to ball state university (muncie, indiana) to stage their nation-wide traveling production of _purlie victorious_ for us. lovely, lovely people. oh so patient and kind to a bunch of know-nothing theater kids. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/16 "2008-03-21T17:04:41Z")
Jessica Tandy & Hume Cronyn were married for 52 years. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/17 "2008-03-21T17:27:39Z")
One long Hollywood marriage that surprised me was George Carlin’s. He married Brenda Hosbrook in 1961 and they were together until her death in 1997. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/18 "2008-03-21T17:51:59Z")
Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman, 26 years and counting. Not a record, but pretty remarkable nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/19 "2008-03-21T17:56:07Z")
[Jimmy Stewart](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000071/bio) and his wife Gloria were married almost 45 years until her death. [Don Rickles](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0725543/bio) and his wife Barbara are married 43 years. [Ronald Reagan](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001654/bio) was married to Nancy Davis for 52 years until his death. [Charlton Heston](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000032/bio) has been married to his wife Lydia for **64** years! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199/20 "2008-03-21T18:02:28Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] One long Hollywood marriage that surprised me was George Carlin’s. He married Brenda Hosbrook in 1961 and they were together until her death in 1997. [/QUOTE] She put up with a lot of crap from him, too. It really changed him when she died. He’s more negative and morbid than before. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-married-hollywood-couples/442199.md?page=2)