Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus
Arnold Palmer attempts the water shot - YouTube
FLASHBACK to Jack Nicklaus’ Miraculous Putt | 2016 Senior PGA Championship - YouTube
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Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff
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Elsa Lanchester was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and television 1. She studied dance as a child and began performing in theatre and cabaret after the First World War, where she established her career over the following decade 1. She met the actor Charles Laughton in 1927, and they were married two years later. She began playing small roles in British films, including the role of Anne of Cleves with Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) 1. Her success in American films resulted in the couple moving to Hollywood, where Lanchester played small film roles. Her role as the title character in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) brought her recognition. She played the lead in Passport to Destiny (1944) and supporting roles through the 1940s and 1950s. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Come to the Stable (1949) and Witness for the Prosecution (1957), the last of twelve films in which she appeared with Laughton 1. Following Laughton’s death in 1962, Lanchester resumed her career with appearances in such Disney films as Mary Poppins (1964), That Darn Cat! (1965) and Blackbeard’s Ghost (1968). The horror film Willard (1971) was highly successful, and one of her last roles was in Murder by Death (1976) 1.
Boris Karloff was an English actor who became internationally famous for his sympathetic and chilling portrayal of the monster in the classic horror film Frankenstein 12. He reprised the role in several sequels and also provided the voices of the Grinch and the narrator in the holiday standard How the Grinch Stole Christmas 1.
Karloff’s acting career began on stage and included a 10-year stint in theaters across Canada. When he finally got into the movie industry in 1919, he found himself cast in dozens of small roles in both silent pictures and talkies, with many of the parts remaining uncredited 3. He acted in many live stage plays and appeared on dozens of radio and television programs as well 1. For his contribution to film and television, Karloff was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 8 February 1960 1.
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Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc) and Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry), Not only were they castmates in ( Friends) but also roommates.
A comedy duo that will never been replicated.
RIP Matthew 
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Les Paul and Mary Ford
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Phil Laak and Jennifer Tilly
Phil Laak Bluffs with 6-High at World Series of Poker - YouTube
Jennifer Tilly bluffs Tony G off the best hand - YouTube
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Captain Thomas Benton Weir (September 28, 1838 – December 9, 1876)
Weir Point is the farthest point reached by Capt. Weir in his attempt to assist Custer. Minutes after arriving, his company was joined by Capt. Benteen’s company and others. They remained about 45 minutes until mounting warrior pressure forced them back to the Reno- Benteen battlefield.
Frederick William Benteen (August 24, 1834 – June 22, 1898)
Benteen is best known for being in command of a battalion (Companies D, H,& K) of the 7th U. S. Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in late June, 1876.
Bart Conner and Nadia Comaneci
Nadia Comăneci and Bart Conner first met at the American Cup at Madison Square Garden in March of 1976 12. Conner, then 17, won the men’s title and Comăneci, a 14-year-old gymnast, won the women’s title1. After the event, they posed for a photo together. The photographer suggested that Conner give Comăneci a kiss on the cheek for a nice picture1. This chance photo would later become significant1.
However, it took 14 years and a harrowing escape from communist Romania for Comăneci and Conner to meet again3. They finally began dating after Comăneci took a room in Conner’s Oklahoma home3. They were good friends for a year and phone pals until she moved to Oklahoma to help him set up gymnastic schools in 1991 2. Shortly after, their friendship turned into romance, and they were in a relationship2. After dating for a couple of years, they got engaged in 1994 2, and were married in 1996
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Annie Oakley and Frank Butler: When Frank Butler challenged local marksmen to a shootout as part of his traveling variety act, he didn’t expect to be answered by a 5-foot-tall, 15-year-old girl named Annie. She beat him handily, earning the prize money and his heart. After their marriage, Annie joined the act and her sharpshooting skills quickly became a national sensation. Annie passed away Nov. 3, 1926, months after their 50th anniversary. Frank died 18 days later.
Annie Oakley and Frank E. Butler short film 1894 - YouTube
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I saw part of the 1935 movie Annie Oakley on TCM recently. it was rather engaging. Barbara Stanwyck, who played Annie, is great, as usual. they changed Frank Butler’s name to Toby Walker for some reason. the movie is on YouTube; but has some kind of subtitles I can’t read (as well as the original audio)
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Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill.
Masters of the spaghetti western genre and all round great actors.
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Roy Rodgers (Nov 5 1911- July 6 1998) and Trigger (July 4, 1934 – July 3, 1965)
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Roy Rogers was born as Leonard Franklin Slye on November 5, 1911 in Cincinnati Ohio
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Roy became a successful American singer, actor, and television host and was one of the most popular Western stars of his era.
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Roy Rogers appeared in over 100 films and numerous radio and television episodes of The Roy Rogers Show. His show was broadcast on radio for nine years and then on television from 1951 through 1957
Golden Cloud made an early appearance as the mount of Maid Marian, played by Olivia de Havilland in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). A short while later, when Roy Rogers was preparing to make his first movie in a starring role, he was offered a choice of five rented “movie” horses to ride and chose Golden Cloud. Rogers bought him eventually in 1943 and renamed him Trigger for his quickness of both foot and mind. Trigger learned 150 trick cues and could walk 50 ft (15 m) on his hind legs (according to sources close to Rogers). They were said to have run out of places to cue Trigger. Trigger became such a ham that as soon as he heard applause, he would start bowing and ruin that trick. He could sit in a chair, sign his name “X” with a pencil, and lie down for a nap and cover himself with a blanket. Rogers’ most carefully guarded trade secret was to get Trigger housebroken. “Spending as much time as he does in hotels, theaters, and hospitals, this ability comes in might handy and it’s conceded by most trainers to be Trigger’s greatest accomplishment.” —Glenn Randall, wrangler with Hudkins Stables
Roy Rodgers and Dale Evans
Roy met Dale Evans in 1944 when they were cast in a film together. They were well known as advocates for adoption and as founders and operators of children’s charities. They married on New Year’s Eve in 1947 at the Flying L Ranch in Davis, Oklahoma. Rogers and Evans’ famous theme song, “Happy Trails”, was written by Evans; they sang it as a duet to sign off their television show.
Caius Julius Caesar and Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator
Julius Caesar was one of the most powerful rulers of ancient Rome. He significantly transformed what became the Roman Republic through his numerous conquests and by changing the Roman political system from a Republic to an Empire2. In 48 BC, thanks to his strategist’s skills and his numerous wise alliances, Julius Caesar was the great winner of the first “Roman civil war” against one of his Roman ally who had become his greatest enemy: Pompey2. Following his victory, Rome entered a period of rarely achieved prosperity2.
Cleopatra, on the other hand, was the only queen of her time, trying to rebuild the grandiose legacy of Ramesses2. After being ousted from Egypt, Cleopatra sought help from Julius Caesar, whose army’s strength could help her regain her throne3. The two quickly became lovers and Caesar did, in fact, help her take her throne back from her brother3.
Their relationship was of romantic nature but it also had its political reasons. Cleopatra needed Caesar’s armies to protect herself from Ptolemy XIII while Caesar needed Cleopatra’s impressive wealth to fund his armies and resources, thus gaining power back in Rome4. Their alliance solidified the unpopular queen’s position in Egypt, allowing her to claim her place in history as the last true Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt1.
Cleopatra and Caesar’s relationship lasted until his murder on the Ides of March in 44 B.C., at the hands of his enemies in the Senate5. Cleopatra had been on an extended visit to Rome at the time of Caesar’s murder and briefly remained there in the hopes of convincing the Romans to recognize Caesarion as the rightful heir of Roman power5.
Jack Judge and Harry Williams
Jack Judge, to the left, and his partner in composing more than 32 popular music hall ditties, Harry Williams
“It’s a Long Way to Tipperary” (or “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary”) is an English music hall song first performed in 1912 by Jack Judge, and written by Judge and Harry Williams, though authorship of the song has long been disputed.[1][2][3]
It was recorded in 1914 by Irish tenor John McCormack. It was used as a marching song among soldiers in the First World War and is remembered as a song of that war. Welcoming signs, in the referenced town of Tipperary, Ireland, humorously declare, “You’ve come a long way” in reference to the song.[4]
Jack Judge’s parents were Irish, and his grandparents came from Tipperary. Judge met Harry Williams (Henry James Williams, 23 September 1873 – 21 February 1924) in Oldbury, Worcestershire at the Malt Shovel public house, where Williams’s brother Ben was the licensee. Williams was severely disabled, having fallen down cellar steps as a child and badly broken both legs. He had developed a talent for writing verse and songs, and played the piano and mandolin, often in public. Judge and Williams began a long-term writing partnership that resulted in 32 music hall songs published by Bert Feldman. Many of the songs were composed by Williams and Judge at Williams’s home, The Plough Inn (later renamed The Tipperary Inn), in Balsall Common. Because Judge could not read or write music, Williams taught them to Judge by ear.[5]
It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary 1912 - Jack Judge | Sting II player piano - YouTube
Ruth Buzzi and Arte Johnson
Gladys & Tyrone | Devotion And Passion | Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In - YouTube
Ruth Buzzi’s most famous character was “spinster” Gladys Ormphby, clad in drab brown with her bun hairdo covered by a visible hairnet knotted in the middle of her forehead. Buzzi first used this look when she played Agnes Gooch in a school production of Auntie Mame . In most sketches, she used her purse as a weapon, with which she would flail away vigorously at anyone who incurred her wrath. She most often was the unwilling object of the advances of Arte Johnson’s “dirty old man” character Tyrone F. Horneigh.
Arte Johnson’s prominent Laugh-In character was “Tyrone F. Horneigh” (pronounced “horn-eye,” a “clean” variant of the vulgar term “horny”), the white-haired, trench coat-wearing “dirty old man” who repeatedly sought to seduce “Gladys Ormphby,” (Ruth Buzzi’s brown-clad “spinster” character) on a park bench. Tyrone would enter the scene, muttering a song (usually “In the Merry, Merry Month of May”), and, spying Gladys on the bench, would sit next to her. He would ask her a question, and regardless of the answer, turn it into a double entendre. She would then start hitting him with her purse and he would fall off the bench.
From 1971 to 1976, Twitty received a string of Country Music Association awards for duets with Loretta Lynn1. They became an official country music duo known as Conway & Loretta2. They made 11 studio albums between 1971 and 19883. Hits from those country albums included five number 1 songs off five different albums; this film excerpt shows them performing “Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man” and “After the Fire Is Gone”3. Throughout the decade, Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn established themselves as quintessential country partners4.
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Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman
Casablanca | An Unlikely Classic: Behind The Scenes | Warner Bros. Entertainment - YouTube
Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters
Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters had a close relationship, with Williams considering Winters as his mentor and even referring to him as the "Comedy Buddha"1. Williams declared that Jonathan Winters was the reason he became a comedian1. This influence began in Williams’ childhood when he saw how his father laughed at Winters on television1.
Williams’ father’s laughter at Winters’ comedy introduced him to Winters’ work1. This inspired Williams to become a comedian, and he often recounted how this moment put him on the path to becoming one of America’s funniest and most prolific artists1.
Williams also honored Winters at the Emmys ‘In Memoriam’ Tribute2, further demonstrating the deep respect and admiration he had for Winters. Their relationship was not just of mutual respect but also of shared comedic genius, with both leaving audiences wondering at their originality and freshness1.