Inside Their 50 Years, Who is Jane Wagner?

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You may be surprised to learn that Jane Fonda is not the only Jane in the world.Jane #1 will always be her partner of 50 years.

When they first met in the 70s, Wagner impressed Tomlin with her work as a writer, director, and producer.In a 2006 interview, she recalled that she was doing her Edith Ann album in 1971.She won a Peabody for her work on J.T., a show about a kid in Harlem.It was the first thing she had ever written.

The two have a strong relationship that is still going strong.From coming out to the world to collaborating on award-winning projects to contemplating the idea of children, here is everything you need to know.

After she reached out to her, she didn't hear from her for a while.

She sent me a lot of material a week before I was supposed to record.She came to California to help me produce it.I was taken with her as soon as I saw her.We clicked.We became a couple right away.

My mother would have died.It was literally.The actress told The Telegraph that she would have come out if she lived to see it.She was basically fundamentalist but she was very sweet and kind and she loved Jane.She died a decade ago.She passed away at the age of 91.It was always a dilemma for me.

Even though it was a hard decision to come out on the cover of Time, she decided to turn it down because she wanted to be acknowledged for her acting, not her sexual identity.

The search for signs of intelligent life in the universe and the movie The Incredible Shrinking Woman were both written by Wagner and she worked on them with her husband.

In 1988, Tomlin said that they shared similar feelings about people and the world.She can say it and I can physicalize it.She loves farce and black comedy and broad slapstick.You can make an audience laugh and be moved when you put all this together.

When they went for their marriage license, they tried to be invisible.She said they went to Van Nuys because they didn't want anyone to write about them.

They got married at a friend's house.He said it was sweet.I went into our jewelry because we didn't have any rings.I said, "We have to have some kind of rings!"

Being a mother was never aspiration of hers, but the couple did consider having children at one point.When Jane had a handsome nephew, we thought we could get his sperm and she could have a child.When I think of the world now, I don't want to have to raise a child.

Back in 1973, Tomlin spoke about not wanting to have kids on The Johnny Carson Show, which was a big deal at the time.If you didn't want to have children, that's off the scale.According to Vanity Fair, the audience got dead silent as a feminist moment.