Ossie and Ruby

One simply cannot honor "classic" celebrity couples without mentioning everyone's favorite couple, can one?

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Davis were married for 56 years. They are often regarded as the first "power couple" of Black Hollywood.

Sadly, the union ended when Mr. Davis passed away on February 4, 2005. 

47 Years of Sessue & Tsuru

(Photo from thebioscope.net)

Fellow Japanese actors Sessue Hayakawa and Tsuru Aoki married on May 1, 1914--weeks before the release of their critically acclaimed film together The Wrath of the Gods. They would star in numerous films together (more than twenty). 

The two lived happily in Europe with their three children until Tsuru passed away in 1961.

Mr. and Mrs. Hayakawa were married for 47 years.