Mike Nichols

In the wake of Shelly Berman's successful sit-down-on-a-stool vignettes, it was inevitable that a male/female duo would emerge from the pack mining similar turf, and the team of Nichols & May embodied it perfectly. Eventually splitting up by the early '60s, Elaine May became involved with the Broadway theater crowd while Nichols carved out a successful career as a motion picture director. © Cub Koda /TiVo