Connie Booth

...am 0 comments Written by and starring Monty Python's John Cleese and his wife Connie Booth, who became his ex-wife before the second series aired, Fawlty Towers is quite possibly the funniest sitcom episode for episode. The main reason...

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...that would go on to top polls of the greatest British television programmes. She sees Cleese, Connie Booth and Andrew Sachs when Cleese is in London. "When he's over he has dinner parties for all his old colleagues. " Scales's mother...

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...October 16, 2009 Canwest file photo Connie Booth and John Cleese utilized some unique techniques while taping episodes of Fawlty Towers in the mid-'70s, such as rushing through jokes and ignoring the faint scent of cod. To hear Rowan...

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...marry me. Cleese has remained friends with his first wife Connie Booth, who co-wrote and starred in Fawlty Towers, and the American actress Barbara Trentham, although his divorce from her cost him GBP2.5million in 1988. The comedian...

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...into major cataclysms, to the never-ending frustration of Cleese's hyperkinetic snob. Although Cleese and Booth divorced between the first series and second, part of the reason for the four-year gap, the show returned stronger than ever,...

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...the world, but regularly at the opposite sex. Just look at Basil Fawlty's contempt for his wife, Sybil, and chambermaid Polly (appropriately enough, played by Cleese's first wife, Connie Booth). Much of the Pythons' shtick was rooted in a...

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...and his long-suffering wife. The couple wrote and starred in six episodes' worth of classic door-slamming, crossed-signals farce in '75, and then six more in '79 (after Cleese and Booth had divorced). These 12 nearly perfect half-hours...

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...making of the classic 70s sitcom Published: RE-RUN: Stars of Fawlty Towers, from left, Prunella Scales, John Cleese, Connie Booth and Andrew Sachs unveil two documentaries about the shows THE golden age of British TV comedy has passed,...

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...regarded as one the greatest of British TV comedies. 2009: John Cleese (centre) Connie Booth (left), Prunella Scales and Andrew Sachs at the launch of two Fawlty Towers documentaries. The programme first aired 30 years ago 1979: The...

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