Tony Martin & Cyd Charisse

Cyd was a dancer and actress and Tony a singer and actor. They met as a result of having the same talent agent. The couple met while Charisse’s fame was still growing at MGM.Tony told in an interview “ When I first talked to Cyd I felt sweetness and tenderness, qualities more important than beauty".The couple married in 1948 and it was a second marriage for both of them. Their marriage lasted for 60 years until Cyd's death cause heart attack in 2008. Cyd and Martin had one child together, Tony Jr.

The two never starred in any films together, aside from a brief cameo Charisse makes at the end of “Easy to Love,” but the couple performed in singing and dancing tours in their later years.“To him, walking out on to a nightclub floor is as simple and natural as going to the kitchen for a glass of water,” Charisse said in “The Two of Us,” the joint autobiography she wrote with Martin in 1976.

Martin passed away on July 2012, at the age of 98. But even well into his 90’s, he was still performing and his voice was just as rich.