Alan Alda turned 87 years old on Saturday, January 28. The 87th birthday of the veteran actor was spent with his wife of 65 years, Arlene Alda. He met his wife, who is 89, in a strange way, and they fell in love.
In 1956, while attending Fordham, Alda met Arlene Weiss, who was attending Hunter College,
Alda’s Wikipedia page reads.
They bonded at a mutual friend’s dinner party; when a rum cake accidentally fell onto the kitchen floor, they were the only two guests who did not hesitate to eat it.
A year later, they got married. They are still together and very much in love at almost 90 years old.
The hostess of the evening had made a rum cake, and she put it on the refrigerator to cool. The refrigerator shook, and the cake fell off the refrigerator and hit the floor,
Alan Alda later revealed this in 2015.
Arlene and I were the only two people who went in with spoons and ate it off the floor. That’s how you know. When two people eat a cake off the floor, that’s it for life.
Alan Alda said that he fell in love with the woman who would become his wife after that meeting, but he couldn’t make himself to be in touch with her.
I was so intensely shy and inexperienced. I felt I needed to ask her out on the perfect date.
The actor from “M*A*S*H” said that they had to save money together to pay for their wedding because they didn’t have enough for their honeymoon.
We could barely afford a wedding trip. We added up her savings and mine, figuring out how much we had to start life with; it came out to six hundred dollars between us.
In 1957, they got married, and they welcomed their three daughters named Elizabeth, Eve, and Beatrice.
Alan told everyone in July 2018 that he had been told he had Parkinson’s. He said he wanted to share the news with others “to inspire” them “to take action,” and he stressed how well he was taking the news. The famous person said that even though it had been a while since his diagnosis, he was still physically active.
I decided to let people know I have Parkinson’s to encourage others to take action. I was Diagnosed 3 and a half years ago, but my life is full. I act, I give talks, I help with the Alda Center for Communicating Science, and I do my podcast, which I love. If you get a diagnosis, keep moving! I take boxing lessons 3 days a week, play singles tennis twice a week, and take a mild pill – all Dr. recommended. I even juggle a little. And I’m not entering dementia. I’m no more demented than I was before,
wrote the Ray Donovan actor on Facebook.
Really, I’m good.
