Famous Friendships From World Over

    • sugandha.indulkar@timesgroup.com
    • Publish Date: Aug 4 2016 12:03PM
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    • Updated Date: Aug 4 2016 12:51PM
Famous Friendships From World Over

To celebrate the spirit of friendship, we have started a special series on friends! Watch out for this space to read other interesting trivia and trend stories on friends...  

Friendship is a funny thing, it can make its home anywhere and with anyone. Some noted personalities from world over did make some really ‘unusual’ friends and here’s their tale…


Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini

Sir Arthur Conon Doyle, a novelist of repute and Harry Houdini, a renowned magician may have very little in common, yet, they were best friends. Interestingly, Harry Houdini spent the latter half of his career debunking the supernatural and exposing fake psychics. In stark contrast, Conan Doyle, on the other hand, was a complete believer in anything remotely connected with the paranormal. After a fallout with Lady Doyle, Houdini’s friendship with Doyle breathed its last.


Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald

The golden girl of American cinema from 1950s to till the time of her untimely death in 1962 – Marilyn Monroe had millions of fans from world over. Whereas Ella Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer often referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz and Lady Ella.

Few know about her career-defining friendship with Marilyn Monroe, to whom Fitzgerald said she “owes a real debt.” Fitzgerald was not allowed to sing at Mocambo in Hollywood, one of the most popular venues of the ’50s. Marilyn Monroe, then one of Fitzgerald’s biggest fans, made a phone call and arranged for her to sing at the Mocambo. Later, Monroe too honed her singing talent under Fitzgerald. 

What is great about their friendship is that Monroe, stood up for her belief in the Ella Fitzgerald and proclaimed to the world that skin colour cannot prevent good people from becoming great friends and real talent is over and above everything. 



Helen Keller and Mark Twain


Helen Keller, author and political activist, became a national hero and an inspiration for the way she overcame being deaf and blind. The early stages of her education, when she first learned how to communicate, formed the basis for the well-known play 'The Miracle Worker'. And throughout her career, Helen had a surprising admirer—Mark Twain.

A friendship between the two seemed unlikely, with Twain being 45 years older than Keller. When the two first met in 1894, Helen was just 14 years old, and Mark Twain was already in his fifties. However, Helen reminded the author of his youngest daughter, Jean Clemens, which is partially the reason why the two grew fonder of each other over the next 16 years until Twain’s death. According to Keller, Twain had a great intuition about how it felt to be blind and never made her feel embarrassed or helpless. 



JRR Tolkien and C S Lewis

The two esteemed authors first met in 1926 at a gathering for English faculty at Merton College, but they didn't really become friends until the 1930s, when they were both in a literary discussion group at Oxford University known as the Inklings. Tolkien was raised Catholic and subscribed to that belief system his whole life. Lewis, on the other hand, had a more complicated relationship with religion. He was raised Irish Protestant, then became agnostic. When Tolkien verbalised how ancient stories were able to describe higher truths, and within two weeks, Lewis was a Christian once again. That conversation didn't just inspire Lewis's return to Christianity; it also inspired him and Tolkien to write 'The Chronicles of Narnia' and 'The Lord of the Rings', respectively. A movie about their friendship is currently in the works.



Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett

It’s no surprise that these two legendary comedians who ran their own television shows got along well. Ball’s historic hit, 'I Love Lucy', ran on CBS from 1951 through 1957. The Carol Burnett Show premiered a decade later and ran from 1967 through 1978. The two also acted together—Burnett appeared on four episodes of The Lucy Show, and Ball guest-starred on four episodes of The Carol Burnett Show—and had a mentor-mentee relationship: Ball was 22 years older than Burnett and called her “kid.” Burnett describes her relationship with Ball as “very close.” Ball even threw her a black tie baby shower, which Burnett has called “one of the funniest evenings ever.”

People do bond over common interests and some of the strongest bonds of friendship can be developed in a mentor-mentee relationship. It is indeed worthwhile to read about the famous Lucille Ball, erstwhile comedian on TV and her mentor Carol Burnett.

Rs Sohini Sarkar, class X, DAV Public School, Nerul, Navi Mumbai


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Vandana Subash City International School Wanowrie

Some magical connection bonds you and your friends.Whether it is a lower caste or a higher caste,it does not matter..Its just love that matters.One of the best stories from mythology explaining this is the story of Krishna and Sudama..Krishna was a God and a King but nothing like that mattered when his poor Brahman friend,Sudama came to meet him after years!

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