# Man/Woman creative teams who were NOT romantically involved. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 19, 2005, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883 "2005-02-19T13:37:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/1 "2005-02-19T13:37:15Z")
So many man/woman creative teams have included a romantic relationship. Burns and Allen Goffin and King Scorsese and De Fina Stiller and Meara Woody Allen and Diane Keaton Woody Allen and Mia Farrow and a bunch more Who can think of man/woman creative teams that existed without a romantic relationship? I can think of: Nichols and May John and Mary . . . Can’t think of any more. Who knows some? Also acceptable would be creative partnerships of partners of the same sex who are _both_ gay, but _not_ a couple. Are the Indigo Girls a couple? ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/2 "2005-02-19T13:51:10Z")
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (a man) wrote several fantasy best-sellers together. I think they both had spouses and as far as I know, where not an item. ---
**Author:** ![CROdell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ea924/32.png) [@CROdell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CROdell)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/3 "2005-02-19T13:59:17Z")
The only possible one that springs to mind are Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont, who co-wrote and directed _Can’t Hardly Wait_ and _Josie & the Pussycats_. Kaplan is married to Breckin Meyer, so the two are clearly not a romatic item at the moment. On the other hand, I don’t know if the two still work together. Their last produced screenplay was _Surviving Christmas_ which was, judging from the credits on IMDB, significantly rewritten by another team and I’m pretty certain that the film was sitting on the shelf for at least a year before it was released (or escaped). ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/4 "2005-02-19T14:04:47Z")
Do Donny and Marie qualify as a creative team? (Okay, probably not.) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/5 "2005-02-19T14:09:28Z")
Coon, Roddenberry, and Fontana ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/6 "2005-02-19T16:18:45Z")
[Betty Comden and Adolph Green](http://www.wga.org/awards2001/screen-laurel.html), who wrote the books or screenplays to _On the Town_, _Singin’ in the Rain_, _The Bandwagon_, and many other classic musicals. Actor-director Paul Bartel and actress Mary Woronov worked together on seventeen movies (_Eating Raoul, Death Race 2000_). Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake starred in seventeen “Blondie” movies between 1939 and 1950. ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/7 "2005-02-19T16:30:33Z")
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/8 "2005-02-19T17:19:18Z")
When my friend Vicki and I get published! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/9 "2005-02-19T18:15:35Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Also acceptable would be creative partnerships of partners of the same sex who are _both_ gay, but _not_ a couple. Are the Indigo Girls a couple? I don’t have time to search for a cite, but I remember reading an interview with Emily Saliers, in which she says that she and Amy Ray have never been anything more than friends. ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/10 "2005-02-19T18:20:23Z")
Peter Jackson and Phillipa Boyens. Or maybe it’s the other woman (whose name escapes me) he’s not married to. Well, he’s not married to both of them. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/11 "2005-02-19T18:27:40Z")
The more I think about this, the more it seems that there aren’t all that many male/female creative teams in the first place. I can think of a few singer/songwriter teams, but I’m not sure as to the relationship status of any of them. Dolly Parton and Porter Wagner weren’t a romantic item, were they? > [@threeorange](#): > > I don’t have time to search for a cite, but I remember reading an interview with Emily Saliers, in which she says that she and Amy Ray have never been anything more than friends. **Pop-Up Video** said the same thing, if that counts as a cite. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/12 "2005-02-19T18:39:04Z")
How about Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, a pretty good comedy team! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/13 "2005-02-19T18:41:21Z")
And how about Enya & Nicky Ryan? They’ve written a lot of songs together, and he’s produced most of her albums, but they’re not romantically connected (in fact, Nicky’s wife Roma writes some of Enya’s lyrics). ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/14 "2005-02-19T18:47:10Z")
Another: Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey and Mary Travers have performed and written songs together for over four decades, but as far as I know, no one in the trio ever hooked up with anyone else in the trio (they all married other people outside the group). ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/15 "2005-02-19T19:45:00Z")
Rob Reiner and Nora Ephron aren’t involved, are they? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/16 "2005-02-19T19:49:35Z")
Myrna Culbreath and Sondra Marshak are each too busy pining for the weeping-male Alpha hero to think about each other ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/17 "2005-02-19T20:58:13Z")
What about The Eurythmics, Annie Lennox and Dave whatshisname? We’re they every romantically linked? ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/18 "2005-02-19T21:08:45Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > What about The Eurythmics, Annie Lennox and Dave whatshisname? We’re they every romantically linked? Yep. From [AMG](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:yzarqj3bojja~T1): > [@](#): > > The pair met in London while she was studying at the Royal Academy of Music. Stewart had recently broken up his folk-rock group Longdancer and was writing songs with guitarist Pete Coombes. Immediately after meeting, **Stewart and Lennox became lovers and musical partners.** ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/19 "2005-02-19T22:39:18Z")
How about Torvill and Dean? ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883/20 "2005-02-19T22:48:17Z")
Richard and Karen Carpenter were siblings, not spouses. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-woman-creative-teams-who-were-not-romantically-involved/290883.md?page=2)