#classic comedy

Vincent Price -

Think about it: the women hold all the cards and all the power in that play, and the men are just running around trying to please them. Jack needs to find a way to get Gwendolen’s MOTHER’s approval of their union; her father doesn’t even show up. Algernon submits wholeheartedly to spending the rest of his life fulfilling Cecily’s fantasy and being the dream man she’s imagined in her head for years. The two protagonists are literally willing to CHANGE THEIR NAMES so they’ll have the name their girlfriends want them to have. And ultimately it’s Miss Prism - the unmarried older woman - who holds the answer to the entire play’s central mystery.

Gilda Radner with her husband, Gene Wilder, shortly before her death from ovarian cancer in 1989.

She was only 42.

In her memoir, It’s Always Something, Gilda wrote about the brutal reality of cancer treatment — months of chemotherapy, radiation, fear, pain, and still somehow, hope.

She and Gene had dreamed of having a child together. They conceived, but as her cancer was beginning, they lost the baby.

It makes this photo even more heartbreaking.

Gene wasn’t just her husband.

He was her safe place.

Her partner. Her protector. Her soulmate.

Gilda spent her life making people laugh, even when her own life became unimaginably hard.

And Gene carried her love forward after she was gone.

Some love stories are beautiful because they last forever.