See Kate & Allie now, at 75 and 74

Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin played the best friends holding the revolutionary sitcom.


Jane CurtinandSusan Saint James First worked together on the 1980 filmHow to beat the high cost of living, but it was only a few years later that they would assume the roles that would bond them forever in the minds of millions of viewers. From 1985 to 1989, the duo played best friends and roommates holding the classic sitcomKate and Allie, the story in advance of two divorced single mothers who decide to settle together to raise their children rather than find new husbands.

After the end of the show, however, their careers took very different paths. Curtin continued to another beloved television series, while Saint James withdrew from the action. Continue to read to learn what they have done since the years that followed the end of the show.

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Curtin continued to another successful sitcom.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, French Stewart, Kristen Johnston, John Lithgow and Jane Curtin in 3rd Rock From the Sun
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AfterKate and Allie Completed, Curtin went to the NBC sitcomWork, created byPersky Bill, which had made more than 100 episodes its previous sitcom. The program was created in August 1990 but was canceled after 13 episodes.

Then, after resuming his most famousSaturday Night Live character in the 1993 big screen version ofConeheads, Curtin then found success in a television program on extraterrestrials pretending to be human, with Mary Albright, the rival and the romantic interest of the Solomon extraterrestrial cock (John Lithgow) on the successful sitcom ABC3rd Rocher du Soleil. Curtin appeared in the six seasons of the series, which took place from 1996 to 2001.

Later, Curtin playedFred Savage Mother in the quickly canceled sitcom 2006Crumbs, was a regular for three seasons on the CBS police procedureUnforgettable From 2011 to 2014, and played in the sitcom ABC 2020United We Fall, which was canceled after a season of eight episodes. She also played guests on series includingBig city,,The good woman,,The right fight, andLibrarians.

In the cinema, Curtin appeared inThe Hiiled Dog;I love you guy;The heat; andCan you forgive me? She has often played the mother of a young comedy star, likePaul Rudd andMelissa McCarthy.

Saint James was mainly withdrawn from the action afterKate & Allie.

Susan Saint James in 1989
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Although she had a long CV appearances on television and cinema before playingKate and Allie, including relays of several seasons onThe name of the game andMcMillan and his wife, Saint James decided to retire after the end of the series to focus on his family and five children and only acted sporadically in the years that followed.

Its rare credits include appearances by mono-episodes guests on the sitcom NBC of a seasonTattinators In 1989,The Drew Carey Show (Co-A With his niece,Christa Miller) in 1996,Law and command: Special victims unit in 2006, andCombinations in 2011.

The life of Saint James was shaken by a terrible tragedy.

Susan Saint James and Dick Ebersol in 2015
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Saint James was married three times. She had two children with her second husband, makeup artistThomas Lucas, which she married in 1971: a girl,Sunshine, born in 1972; And a son,Harmony, born in 1974. Saint James and Lucas divorced in 1977.

In 1981, Saint James marriedDick Ebersol, a television director who was producerSaturday Night Live at the time. They had three sons:Charles,,William, andEdward (Teddy). Tragically, in 2004, Ebersol, Charles and Teddy participated inA terrible accident When the private plane, they were passengers, crashed when taking off a colorado airport. Teddy, then 14, died, like the pilot and a on -board agent.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

The family was devastated by death. Two years later, in an interview withOprah Winfrey, like the quote from CBS News, Saint James admitted that it had not been able totouch the things of his late son Since the accident. Over the years, however, the actor has been able to find a certain degree of peace with loss.

"I had toFind a way to live with [it]"She told Yahoo News! In 2015. "You must find a way to do it, to own it, not to walk around and pretend that it did not happen. Sometimes Dick and I are sitting there and one or the other Melt in tears, or children call and say they are so sad. And you go: "Oh my God, I feel cheated, I was stolen." But for the most part, everyone has it and we accept it. "

Curtin has been married for 47 years.

Jane Curtin in 2018
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Saint James has been married for 41 years, but Curtin beat: she married her husband, television producerPatrick Lynch, in 1975. The couple has a daughter,Tess Lynch, born in 1983.

A long marriage is generally not considered the norm for Hollywood couples, but the stable relationship of Curtin has actually served as inspiration for herSaturday Night Live co-starGilda Radner, who once asked to observe Curtin and her husband to seeWhat "normal" relationship looked like. "[Radner] just wanted to see what it was ... just to live," said CurtinThe New Yorker in 2019. "And she sat on the sofa. And we did our things. She wanted a relationship so much, and she didn't like being alone. She just didn't know how you could be in a relationship with Someone if you haven't worked it all the time. "

Radner ended up getting married laterGene Wilder; They were together until his death in 1989.

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They found the rest of theKate and Alliecasting last year.

Over 30 years after playing best friendsKate and Allie, Curtin and Saint James joined other distribution members to participate in aLive meeting for charity In 2021. During the virtual event, they shared stories of authentic heat and affection that everyone working on the series had for each other.

Curtin, meanwhile, still acts and recently played in the filmBees queen, described favorably inEE New York Times as "Nasty girls on social security. ""

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