Dolly Parton & Carl Thomas Dean

She's a superstar performer known astir the world. He's a backstage antheral who stays distant from the spotlight. But together, they've built a matrimony that has lasted much than 56 years. "I similar it erstwhile radical say, 'How did it past truthful long?'" Dolly told ET Canada in December 2022. "I say, 'It's enactment going.' There's a batch to beryllium said astir that. So we're not successful each other's look each the time. He's not successful the business, truthful we person antithetic interests, but yet we person the things we emotion to bash together. So it was meant to be. He was the 1 I was expected to person and vice versa."

Samuel L. Jackson & LaTanya Richardson Jackson

There's no breaking the enslaved of these assemblage sweethearts. "In the beginning, we ever said the astir revolutionary happening that Black radical could bash was enactment together, rise their children with the nucleus of having a begetter and a mother, since everybody likes to unreal that that's not the dynamic of the African American family," LaTanya told People in March 2022. "That it's conscionable children retired present being raised by women, which we cognize is false. In bid to alteration that narrative, we made a determination to say, ‘We are going to enactment unneurotic nary substance what. We'll fig it out.'"

Bonnie Bartlett & William Daniels

When you find joyousness successful life's regular activities, Bonnie says your matrimony could past forever. "We're precise happy," she told People when celebrating 72 years of matrimony successful January. "We beryllium successful this location and we bash things. He reads his New York Times and helium does Cameos mostly. And we bash conventions and things similar that. We conscionable similar to beryllium with each other. And we would bash thing for each other."

Ron & Cheryl Howard

These precocious schoolhouse sweethearts celebrated their 50th day successful November 2020. "There's nary technique," Ron told People just 1 twelvemonth earlier. "There's nary maneuver different than connection is truly important. You person to larn to pass and person hard conversations successful constructive ways."

Christopher & Georgianne Walken

After gathering during a accumulation of West Side Story successful the '60s, this mates continues to savor each infinitesimal unneurotic with gratitude. "Every erstwhile successful a while, I'll beryllium looking retired the window, and I'll think, 'I consciousness beauteous good,'" Christopher told New York Times Magazine in February 2022. "My bills are paid, my woman is healthy, the weather's nice. That's truly each I attraction about: when, apropos of nothing, I hap to look retired the model and think, 'This is good.'"

Alan & Arlene Alda

After 65 years of marriage, the mates has recovered their groove distant from the spotlight successful Long Island, New York. In an interrogation with The New Yorker, Alan said helium and his woman bask playing chess during the time and ladder shot earlier dusk. Then, it's a bully meal and a prime TV show.  It's not noisy successful the country," helium said successful June 2022. "I don't person to amusement up places. Places travel to me."

Martin & Janet Sheen

Through sickness and successful health! After Martin recovered from a bosom onslaught and tense breakdown successful the precocious '70s, helium recalled a fewer words his woman told him. "It was precise serious, and she handled it similar a pro," helium told Closer Weekly successful 2016. "She had maine laughing successful the astir dire circumstances. She said, 'Don't instrumentality yourself truthful seriously.' Every time is simply a solemnisation with this dame."

Lily Tomlin & Jane Wagner

After gathering successful 1971, Lily and Jane person been inseparable. When asked to stock proposal for different couples, Lily kept it simple. "We each person a secret," Lily told reporters successful 2019. "It's conscionable the concealed is that you're committed and attraction and you privation it to enactment out. You don't privation to locomotion distant from thing that's important."

Bob & Ginny Newhart

In summation to sharing a Catholic faith, the mates credits wit for keeping their matrimony beardown aft saying "I do" successful 1963. "There's thing astir laughter and the longevity of a marriage," Bob told CBS Sunday Morning successful 2020.