I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

After high school he worked as a runner on Wall Street while he tried to make it as an actor. They had two children Adam and Amanda. They formed a troupe called the Revuers which performed at the Village Vanguard a club in Greenwich Village.

Many people thought the pair were married; they were not but they shared a unique comic genius and sophisticated wit that enabled them to forge a six-decade-long partnership that produced some of Hollywood and Broadway's greatest hits.