Gottlieb and Alfreda Fischer Tallest Married Couple On Earth

Posted: Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

For years, the Fischers were billed as the largest couple on earth, and on meeting them you are not likely to disagree with this, yet they are not giants in the usual sense of people whose height is due to a glandular condition. They are simply big people, who come from families of big people. The Fischers are rather sensitive about stating their exact height, for in show business, against their principles, it was always exaggerated. - William Lindsay Gresham, "Monster Midway" (1948).

Gottlieb and Alfreda Fischer entered show business in their native countries. He, in Austria and she, in Germany. They met in vaudeville where they both performed song and dance numbers. They fell in love and married in Hamburg in 1933.

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