Well, there’s Johnnie Gray and Annabelle Lee in The General, Joh Fredersen and Maria in Metropolis (what can I say, I have trouble talking to women) and Harris K. Telemacher and Sara McDowel in L.A. Story.
But the winner is: Godfrey Parke and Irene Bullock in My Man Godfrey.
I’d have to go with Kathryn nad Sebastian from Cruel Intentions. They had the perfect relationship. She was a manipulative bitch, and he thought he could manoipulate, untill it turned out he was being manipiulated all along, yet still maaged to throw her into the shit pile posthummously. Go them! This is my ideal relationship
Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones in Coal Miner’s Daughter. Both were deeply flawed, but they loved, supported, and needed each other. And they didn’t bail when they hit rough patches.
I’d like to second Marge and Norm Gunderson in Fargo and Adam and Amanda Bonner in Adam’s Rib, and I nominate Hal and Lois in TV’s Malcolm in the Middle.
Charlie and Lulu/Audrey in Something Wild, or maybe Charles and Jean/Eve in The Lady Eve. (Yes, in my fantasy life I’m a straightlaced guy who needs an injection of multiply-named female wackiness to awaken me to the zesty parts of life.)