If you watch episodes of the old game show Tattletales, you'll see a lot of celebrity couples bickering and arguing and you may wonder how their coupling, married or otherwise, could endure. In many cases, it hasn't. A lot of those couples separated or got divorced or otherwise uncoupled. It might even be most of them.
But a few didn't. I caught an episode a week or three ago and two of the three couples are no longer together but the third couple is. It was the comedy team of Charlie Brill and Mitzi McCall.
Charlie and Mitzi met in 1959. They were both students in a comedy workshop at Paramount Studios that was run by Jerry Lewis. They teamed up professionally and personally. By 1964, they were a hot enough act to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. Unfortunately, the episode they were on was the one on February 9 that year when the audience was full of teenage girls who were there to see some act called The Beatles make its first appearance. Things did not go well for Charlie and Mitzi that night.
But if they could survive that, they could survive anything…and they have. Today is their 62nd anniversary.
They're still together. They're still performing. They're two of my favorite people. Happy Anniversary, Mitzi and Charlie! I think it's for keeps.