Many celebrity couples say “I do” over and over — and never get it right. But there are stars who find their soul mate early in life and count themselves lucky.

Here are some of those happy folks who’ve been together more than 50 years — and counting!

Christopher & Georgianne Walken – 55 years

It’s a great mix — actor and casting agent. “It’s a crazy business, and somehow we found each other and made it work,” says the Deer Hunter star. “We’ve been together a long time, and it just gets better every day.”

The Walkens first met in 1966 when they were both cast as dancers in a touring production of West Side Story. Christopher, 82, and Georgianne, 81, dated for three years before tying the knot in 1969.

“Every once in a while — certainly not often — I’ll be looking out the window, and I’ll think, I feel pretty good. My bills are paid, my wife is healthy, the weather’s nice,” says Christopher. “That’s really all I care about.”

Martin & Janet Sheen – 63 years

Martin, 84, and Janet, 80, have been married since 1961, and have welcomed four children, Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez, Ramon Estevez and Renée Estevez — who all followed in their father’s acting footsteps.

Martin suffered a heart attack at the age of 37 while filming 1979’s Apocalypse Now, a notoriously plagued production.

“There was a struggle to get me to a hospital because we were in a remote area of the jungle. My wife, Janet, was running down the corridor, and I was on a gurney being wheeled in, and I looked up and saw her face,” Martin recalls. “She leaned down and whispered, ‘It’s only a movie, babe. Please, it’s only a movie!’”

He adds, “It was very serious, and she handled it like a pro. She had me laughing in the most dire circumstances. She said, ‘Don’t take yourself so seriously.’”

The West Wing star adds, “Every day is a celebration with this dame.”

Ina & Jeffrey Garten – 56 years

The 77-year-old Food Network star and husband Jeffrey, 78, have been wed for 56 years after tying the knot in December 1968.

“I had a very lonely childhood, but everything changed when I met Jeffrey,” says the Barefoot Contessa of her Yale dean husband. “It’s really very simple. He’s the most important thing in my life and he makes me feel like I’m the most important thing in his. He might be in China or Kenya or New Haven at Yale, but I know no matter what’s going on, I’m the center of his life. And that’s incredibly grounding.”

“He’s funny and smart and adorable, so that helps too. And he unloads the dishwasher. He writes me love letters.”

Ron & Cheryl Howard – 54 years

As high school sweethearts, Ron recalls, “There was never anybody else. November 1, 1970, Cheryl and I went on our first date … we saw It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and got pizza. Quite a start, right?”

“People say, ‘How’d you do it?’ There’s no technique. There’s no tactic other than communication is really important. You have to learn to communicate and have difficult conversations in constructive ways,” says the actor and director. “Beyond that, there’s an element of luck because people either grow together or they don’t — and I don’t think you can force that.”

Alan & Arlene Alda – 68 years

The MASH* actor met Arlene during college when they both attended a mutual friend’s dinner party in 1956. They immediately bonded after a rum cake fell onto the kitchen floor.

“We did eat the rum cake off the floor and were inseparable after that,” reveals Alan, 89. “But I was captivated by her even earlier in the meal when I heard her at the end of the table laughing. It was musical. She had me at ‘Ha.’”

Less than one year later in 1957, Alan and Arlene, 92, got married. They went on to welcome daughters Eve, Elizabeth and Beatrice.

Samuel L. & LaTanya Jackson – 55 years

In 2020 Samuel wrote on social media, “50 years ago we started dancing, it was all fun & games. You rock & you sing! Don’t change the tune, we’re not done dancing.”

“The slow drag of our lives pressed together, I led sometimes, sometimes she did. We finally found that rhythm where there was no lead, we moved as one. We’re glued together, hip to hip, and holding each other up not covering as much of the floor, but owning & loving the space that’s ours.”

Together, they share daughter Zoe, who was born in 1982.

William Daniels & Bonnie Bartlett – 73 years

The 98-year-old Boy Meets World alum, who also played a married couple on the ’90s sitcom, wed in 1951 after initially meeting as students at Northwestern University.

“He makes me laugh. His sense of humor and his ability every day to find something funny is really good for me because I’m very intense,” says Bonnie, 95.

The pair adopted sons Michael and Robert in 1964 and 1966. “So much happens and you live,” she says. “We’ve hurt each other but you recover and you grow and you change and you adapt. It doesn’t happen overnight.”

Michael & Shakira Caine – 52 years

Meeting Miss Guyana Shakira, Michael reveals, “I fell in love with her in about eight minutes … it took her two hours to fall in love with me.”

After seeing Shakira in a 1970s Maxwell House coffee commercial, Michael knew he had to meet her. A friend arranged a dinner, and the rest is history. “She was the most beautiful girl I’d ever seen,” says Michael, 92.

Shakira, 78, adds, “She was everything I didn’t expect. I had just seen him in Get Carter. He seemed so tough with his blue eyes and brutishness. Instead, I found him charming and gentle — someone who I’d like to spend part of my life with.”

Sissy Spacek & Jack Fisk – 51 years

The Carrie star met Fisk on the set of 1973’s Badlands when she asked to escort her home.

“One day he asked me to ride home with him on a boat. We loaded up, and there came a terrible flash flood,” Sissy recalls. “The boat sank. Right then I knew life with Jack was going to be eventful.”

Two years later, in 1974, Spacek, 75, and Fisk, 79, got married and created a family. They share daughters Schuyler, an actress, and Madison.