Dick Van Dyke, 100, Is the Life of the Party During Outing With Wife Arlene Silver
Dick Van Dyke, who recently celebrated his 100th birthday, did a little jig during a day with his wife Arlene Silver and musician Herb Alpert at a Malibu event on April 26.
he life Dick Van Dyke leads is full of dancing.
And the 100-year-old certainly proved that’s the case during an April 26 outing at a community event in Malibu with his wife Arlene Silver.
From his seat, the Mary Poppins star danced along to a performance before being interrupted by a special guest, renowned musician Herb Alpert, who introduced himself in a moment captured by Van Dyke’s personal photographer Laura Johansen.
“When you’re just minding your own business, jamming away to the music,” she wrote in an Instagram post on April 27, “and suddenly find Herb Alpert introducing himself…”
And Van Dyke even detailed his moves to Alpert, as with a laugh, he told the 91-year-old in the video, “Gotta keep moving!”
For the Dick Van Dyke Show alum, turning 100 in December has been a time of reflection, with him previously sharing insight into how he’s navigated his twilight years.
“I feel really good for 100,” Van Dyke told People in an interview published a few weeks before his centennial. “Sometimes I have more energy than others—but I never wake up in a bad mood.”His secret weapon for maintaining good health? His wife of 14 years.
He praised the 54-year-old—who he met backstage at the SAG Awards two decades ago—for getting him moving.
“She’s responsible for keeping me in the moment,” he continued to People. “She kept me happy every day of my life, every day. She’s a joy. She can get me singing or dancing and she carries so much responsibility.”
The two recently celebrated their wedding anniversary on March 1, with Silver sharing in an Instagram tribute, “14 year anniversary with my very special guest.”
“We’ve had so much fun, been so many places,” Van Dyke said in the Instagram recording. “And I’ve fallen in love with her more every day. I do, I’m telling you. She gets better every day. I wouldn’t even be here, I wouldn’t be 100 years old if it weren’t for her, and that’s no kidding.”
Dick and Arlene aren’t the only famous couple to find everlasting love. Read on to check out more celebs with long-lasting marriages…
Mariska Hargitay & Peter Hermann
“I never thought that I would laugh this much in my marriage. That is such a fundamental ingredient of who you are, this insistence on joy,” Hermann detailed to his bride of their partnership of over 20 years in Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue‘s 2020 book What Makes a Marriage Last. “And I think what sustains our marriage is that I know you love me in spite of who I am, and that is the definition of grace.”
Seeking out that happiness is key. Even after a particularly robust argument, “One of us will test the waters with a joke—about the very thing we were fighting about,” Herman shared of life with the Law & Order: SVU star. “It’s like one of us says, ‘I’m not saying I was wrong, and I’m not still insisting I was entirely right, but can we at least inch our way back toward the place where we caught at stuff together?’ Once that happens, it’s a pretty good sign that things are on their way to getting patched up.”
Chip Gaines & Joanna Gaines
They’ve avoided need for any major renovation by sticking to the same advice they got in premarital counseling ahead of their 2003 vows. Even five kids in, Tuesday date nights are a must and they’ve held off on purchasing a TV, instead finding other ways to connect.
But if Chip were to offer any tip to follow, it’d be to pursue the person you love “like a hornet.” Some two decades in, he said, he still feels like the guy hoping to get a second date. “I’m not saying she’d never cheat on me,” he explained, “but it’s not going to be because I never told her I loved her or because I didn’t send her flowers or I forgot our anniversary.”
Kyra Sedgwick & Kevin Bacon
“My first piece of advice is not to take advice from celebrities,” Bacon joked of his 36-year union. It’s as succinct as their other go-to, “Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty,” a phrase developed specifically to end any further chatter about their marriage.
Truthfully, though, they make it a point not to let arguments linger, rarely digging in for the sake of the victory. “Honestly, we don’t like to fight, so when we actually are in an argument, we’re both looking for a solution,” The Closer actress explained to Thomas and Donahue. “For the most part we’re struggling to get back to everything being okay, because it sucks to fight.” Because, when it comes down to it, she continued, “There is no Plan B. No matter what, we want to work it out.”
Michael J. Fox & Tracy Pollan
Over 37 years into marriage, the actors have mastered the art of fighting fair. “Tracy and I don’t pick scabs,” explained the Family Ties alum. “In some marriages, people look at their partner and see vulnerability and they just can’t help but go after that vulnerability, like it’s a sport or something. We don’t do that.”
That’s not to say they don’t have arguments. “If I’ve said something stupid, I have the tendency to want to take it back and make it all okay,” he said. “But that doesn’t really work.” Instead, he follows her lead and tries to give her space. She, in turn, offers up understanding: “Sometimes you just have to say to yourself, ‘You know what? He said something schmucky and it made me feel bad. But he’s a good person and I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt that he didn’t realize that what he said hurt my feelings.'”
Jamie Lee Curtis & Christopher Guest
“He still makes me laugh more than any human being,” Curtis said about the Waiting for Guffman director on Today in December 2024, ahead of the couple’s 40th wedding anniversary, adding jokingly, “and I’m sure there’s something about me that he likes. I don’t know what it is, but I’m sure there’s something.”
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