"Yvette). René and Edith are in the Alps celebrating Edith's 35th birthday - Edith has knocked the war years off her true age, including World War I and the Crimean War! This event brings them to remember the incidents which took place during World War II; in particular the events which took place in their hometown of Nouvion. What follows is a collection of highlights from the show's eighty-five episodes, interwoven with Edith and René's reminiscences. A complete list of the archive footage: At the end of the episode, René and Edith re-affirm their love for each other; the archive"
"René Artois René François Artois is a fictional character, the main character in the BBC sitcom ""'Allo 'Allo!"", which ran from 1982 to 1992. The character was played by Gorden Kaye. In the 2009 stage production of 'Allo 'Allo!, the part was played by Jeffrey Holland. The character is loosely based on Albert Foiret, the café owner at the centre of the action in an earlier BBC drama series, ""Secret Army"". Artois (usually referred to as René, but codenamed Nighthawk by the ""Résistance"") is the owner of the Café René in the occupied French town of Nouvion, during World War"
"Gorden Kaye Gordon Fitzgerald Kaye (7 April 194123 January 2017), known as Gorden Kaye, was an English actor and singer, best known for playing womanizing cafe owner René Artois in the British comedy series ""'Allo 'Allo!"" Kaye was born in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, an only child. His mother, Gracie, was 42 when he was born. His father, Harold, was a lorry driver, in the ARP during the Second World War, and at other times worked as an engineer in a tractor factory. When young, Kaye played rugby league for Moldgreen ARLFC before studying at King James's Grammar School,"
"episode The Return of 'Allo 'Allo! and informing René that the award is usually given by Charles de Gaulle to which René mentioned that it would be difficult for De Gaulle to present the medal over his big hooter. René Artois René François Artois is a fictional character, the main character in the BBC sitcom ""'Allo 'Allo!"", which ran from 1982 to 1992. The character was played by Gorden Kaye. In the 2009 stage production of 'Allo 'Allo!, the part was played by Jeffrey Holland. The character is loosely based on Albert Foiret, the café owner at the centre of"
"in the English Bowling Association Middleton Cup competition, beating Middlesex in the final. Coventry & District Bowls Association runs an annual competition for the Silvera Shield. Carmen Silvera Carmen Dorothy Blanche Silvera (2 June 1922 – 3 August 2002) was a British comic actress, who was born in Canada of Spanish descent, she moved to Coventry, England, with her family when she was a child. She appeared on television regularly in the 1960s, and achieved mainstream fame in the 1980s as her starring role in British television programme, ""'Allo 'Allo!"" as Edith Artois. During World War II, Silvera was evacuated"
"House, Jo became a hostess for a tavern along the Henderson River called ""The Riverboat,"" which Stu, Jenny (Linda Gibboney) and Wendy ran. It too was destroyed when Travis (Rod Arrants) met his demise against Warren (Michael Corbett) and Ringo Altman (Larry Fleischman). Starting in the mid-1970s, Joanne was showcased less on the program. She became rivals with Stephanie Wilkins, who had an affair with her third husband, Tony, and later married John Wyatt, her former brother-in-law, out of spite. Joanne's final stories involved her romance with Martin Tourneur (John Aniston), whom she married in 1980. They later divorced, which"
"a care home on 23 January 2017, at the age of 75 in Knaresborough. Kaye's funeral service was held at Huddersfield Parish Church on 17 February 2017. His co-stars from ""'Allo 'Allo!"" Vicki Michelle, Sue Hodge, and Kim Hartman all attended, as did Ken Morley from ""Coronation Street"", who gave a tribute. The unofficial Yorkshire anthem ""On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at"" was sung at the service. Gorden Kaye Gordon Fitzgerald Kaye (7 April 194123 January 2017), known as Gorden Kaye, was an English actor and singer, best known for playing womanizing cafe owner René Artois in the British comedy series"
"""Allo 'Allo!"" was set in the French town of Nouvion during the German occupation of the Second World War. Its focus was a café in the town square run by René Artois (played by Gorden Kaye). There were sustained attempts by the occupiers to appropriate the ""Fallen Madonna"", a local treasure, to provide a nest egg after the war. Among those who coveted it were the local German commandant Colonel Kurt Von Strohm (Richard Marner) and the ""Führer"" Adolf Hitler himself on whose behalf Herr Otto Flick (Richard Gibson) of the ""Gestapo"" was instructed to secure it (but secretly wanted"
"exaggeration, and Frazee (who appeared without billing) earned her laughs with excellent comedy timing. The series lapsed in 1956. After retiring from acting, Frazee started a real estate business. Frazee's marriage to Glenn Tryon lasted five years and produced one son, Timothy. Jane Frazee died of a stroke in 1985. Jane Frazee co-starred as Joe's wife Alice, without screen credit: Jane Frazee Mary Jane Frehse (July 18, 1915 – September 6, 1985), known as Jane Frazee, was an American actress, singer, and dancer. (Her studio biography gave her birthdate as 1918, causing some confusion among her fans; Minnesota historian Dave"
"Café René The Café René is a fictional French café in a British sitcom, ""'Allo 'Allo!"" broadcast on BBC One from 1982 to 1992, which ran for 85 episodes. The series is set in the French town of Nouvion, in Nazi-occupied France in the early 1940s. The café is owned by René François Artois, the main character of the story. It is frequented by the German forces. René has to be polite to them, but also has to be careful not to be seen as a collaborator. The local commandant, Colonel Von Strohm, his assistant Captain Hans Geering, and his"
"is married to Thomas Bangalter of electronic music duo Daft Punk. Élodie Bouchez Élodie Bouchez-Bangalter is a French actress. She is known for her role as Renée Rienne on the fifth and final season of the television show ""Alias"" and for playing Maïté Alvarez in the film ""Wild Reeds"". Bouchez was born on April 5, 1973 at Montreuil-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. She is best known for her César Award's Most Promising Actress winning film ""Wild Reeds"" (1994) by André Téchiné, and the Best Actress Award for the film ""La Vie rêvée des anges"" at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. She"
"had married in 1954. They had one daughter, Valérie. In 1969, she starred in Pierre Étaix's ""Le grand amour"". They fell in love and married that same year. Pierre Étaix (1928-2016), who had been a comedian and Jacques Tati's assistant before becoming a filmmaker himself, had a passion for the circus and clowns. Annie Fratellini had an inherited talent for comedy, and Pierre Étaix convinced her to take it seriously. Together, they created a classic European clown duo in which Étaix was the Clown to Fratllini's Auguste (the comic character of the duet). They made their debut on tour with"
"Jehanne D'Alcy Charlotte Lucie Marie Adèle Stephanie Adrienne Faës, known by her stage name Jeanne d'Alcy or Jehanne d'Alcy (20 March 1865 – 14 October 1956), was a French film actress. She was the wife of French cinema pioneer Georges Méliès from 1925 until his death in 1938. D'Alcy had achieved success in theatrical productions by 1896, but left the stage to devote herself to film, becoming one of the first performers to do so. She was born in Vaujours, Seine-Saint-Denis. She appeared in ""Le Manoir du diable"" (1896), ""Jeanne d'Arc"" (1900) and ""Le Voyage dans la lune"" (1902). She"
"'Allo 'Allo! Allo Allo! is a BBC television British sitcom that was first broadcast on BBC One from 1982 to 1992, comprising 85 episodes. The story is set in a small-town café in German-occupied France during the Second World War. It is a parody of another BBC programme, the wartime drama ""Secret Army"". ""Allo, Allo!"" was created by David Croft, who also wrote the theme music, and Jeremy Lloyd. Lloyd and Croft wrote the first six series. The remaining series were written by Lloyd and Paul Adam. Set during the Second World War, ""Allo Allo!"" tells the fictitious story of"
"was a baby, Madame Fanny sent her to work at the Chateau as a serving girl, and she worked in the servant's quarters, where she discovered all the secret passageways. In her late teens-early twenties, she met Rene, started to court with him, and later married him. Edith Melba Artois (née La Fan) is the wife (and subsequently, sister-in-law) of her husband René Artois. After Rene's 'execution' and fake death, she became the legal owner of the café, which gave her greater influence over her husband's actions than she had had before. She does however dream of the day when"
"secretary Private Helga Geerhart often visit the café. Café René The Café René is a fictional French café in a British sitcom, ""'Allo 'Allo!"" broadcast on BBC One from 1982 to 1992, which ran for 85 episodes. The series is set in the French town of Nouvion, in Nazi-occupied France in the early 1940s. The café is owned by René François Artois, the main character of the story. It is frequented by the German forces. René has to be polite to them, but also has to be careful not to be seen as a collaborator. The local commandant, Colonel Von"
"died in Versailles at age 91. She was portrayed by actress Helen McCrory in Martin Scorsese's 2011 film ""Hugo"". Jehanne D'Alcy Charlotte Lucie Marie Adèle Stephanie Adrienne Faës, known by her stage name Jeanne d'Alcy or Jehanne d'Alcy (20 March 1865 – 14 October 1956), was a French film actress. She was the wife of French cinema pioneer Georges Méliès from 1925 until his death in 1938. D'Alcy had achieved success in theatrical productions by 1896, but left the stage to devote herself to film, becoming one of the first performers to do so. She was born in Vaujours, Seine-Saint-Denis."
"""All in the Family"" impressed viewers as well as executives at CBS who, she would later recall, asked ""'Who is that girl? Let's give her her own series.'"" That series, previewed in her second ""All in the Family"" appearance, would be simply titled ""Maude"". The show, debuting in 1972, found her living in the affluent community of Tuckahoe, Westchester County, New York, with her fourth husband Walter (Bill Macy) and divorced daughter Carol (Adrienne Barbeau). Her performance in the role garnered Arthur several Emmy and Golden Globe nominations, including her Emmy win in 1977 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a"
"the couple divorced a year later. She had four children by her second husband, Comte François Reynier Ambroise Henri Pozzo di Borgo, whom she married in 1953 but also divorced. She died in Paris of cancer shortly after her 50th birthday. Odile Versois Odile Versois (born Étiennette de Poliakoff-Baydaroff; 15 June 1930 – 23 June 1980) was a French actress who appeared in 47 film and television productions between 1948 and 1980. Versois was the sister of actresses Marina Vlady, Hélène Vallier and Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff. Their father, Vladimir, was a noted opera singer of Russian descent, and their mother, Militza"
"teenage daughter Penny (Hallie Todd), who was becoming independent at a faster rate than Joe anticipated; and ""The Point After"" waitress, Kelly Hall (Robin Riker), who traded zingers with them all while acting as a mediator between the Waters brothers when necessary. Seen in sporadic guest appearances all through the series was Lou's long-time wife Flo (Carol Locatell), who only showed up whenever she and Lou were having some sort of marriage dispute. These were usually worked out within the space of a single episode, but their ""hot and cold"" behavior became one of the show's key running gags. Lou"
"version. Kaye was the subject of ""This Is Your Life"" in 1986 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the curtain call of the West End stage version of ""'Allo 'Allo!"" at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Kaye returned as Rene Artois in a 2007 one-off television revival of ""'Allo 'Allo!"" and in a stage show in Brisbane, Australia, at the Twelfth Night Theatre in June and July, alongside Sue Hodge as Mimi Labonq and Guy Siner as Lieutenant Gruber. The other characters were portrayed by Australian actors, including Katy Manning, Steven Tandy, Chloe Dallimore, and Jason Gann. Kaye's"
"not-so-secret second career as a burlesque dancer. It was by this name that most people knew her during the last half of her life, and by which is she generally known to fans of movie director Ed Wood in her capacity as Criswell's eccentric wife. She married Jeron Criswell King and moved to Hollywood. She became a writer and her husband later became nationally famous as The Amazing Criswell, a popular psychic. Together they authored books such as ""How Your Play Can Crash Broadway"" and ""How to Crash Tin-Pan Alley"". Halo Meadows appeared as a contestant on the 27 December"
"several boyfriends over the course of the series; his most enduring relationship was with film buff Dudley Butterfield (Chard Hayward). As the series progressed it increasingly focused on comedic characters such as brassy winebar proprietor Norma Whittaker (Sheila Kennelly), and her inventor husband Les (Gordon McDougall), no-nonsense Flo Patterson (Bunney Brooke), and the bookish bumbling Arnold Feather (Jeff Kevin), who proved irresistible to the ladies. Reg and Edie MacDonald (Mike Dorsey and Wendy Blacklock) and their bubbly daughter, Marilyn (Frances Hargreaves), arrived at the start of 1974 as three more comedic characters. One memorable cliffhanger was the explosion in the"
"made a guest appearance in a Christmas special of ""Family Fortunes"", in which he served as team captain and placed host Les Dennis on a special ""Double Big Money"" round for Dennis to score more than one hundred points to double the charity prize money, which he did. In 1982, David Croft sent Kaye the script for the pilot episode of ""'Allo 'Allo!"" inviting him to play the central character of René Artois. He accepted and appeared in all 84 episodes (the main series ran from 1984, two years after the pilot, until 1992) and 1,200 performances of the stage"
"his wife Dorothy Matthews and Rene Williams. Some guest stars of the series include Angela Lansbury, Ronald Reagan, Eva Marie Saint, Agnes Moorehead, Lee Marvin, Eddie Albert, Joanne Dru, and Dorothy Malone. The series aired twenty-three episodes and aired two seasons. The series aired from June 23–December 12, 1953. Season one aired from June 23 to September 1, 1953 on NBC before being cancelled and picked up for a second season by CBS from September 19 until being cancelled mid-season on December 12, 1953. It was originally broadcast as a Summer replacement on Tuesday nights for ""The Milton Berle Show""."
"tennis. A few years later, the Roanne train station plaza was renamed after him. In its center stood a work by sculptor Arman, ""Les Gourmandes"", which represented a stack of forks. Pierre was now left alone to manage the family business with Olympe his wife, and asked Michel and Marie-Pierre to return from the United States to support them for a few months. Pierre Troisgros and his wife Olympe of Italian origin, who died in 2008, had three children: Claude (born in 1956), Michel (born 1958) and Anne-Marie (born 1964). Claude opened the gourmet ""Olympe"" restaurant in Rio de Janeiro"
"the lives of the men boarding the burning plane by driving the fuel truck away, returning on foot to the plane, and then putting out the fire by rolling over the flames with his body in uniform. His heroism earned him a full-dress parade. He was married to the former Lorraine ""Frenchy"" Trydelle, who was the reservation and office manager of the Concord Resort Hotel in the Catskills, from 1960 until her death in 1976. During the early to the mid-1950s, Allen and his first comedy partner, Mitch DeWood, worked as an opening act for stars including Sarah Vaughan, Eydie"
"couple married on August 28, 2016. Aytes has partnered with DonorSee, a charitable giving platform that allows donations directly to specific needs, and provides raw video of how the money changed someone's life. Aytes has supported building a well in rural Malawi, Africa. Rochelle Aytes Rochelle Aytes (born May 17, 1976) is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role as April Malloy on ABC drama series ""Mistresses"" (2013-16). Aytes also starred in the auto-biography story film of TLC such as """" as Perri ""Pebbles"" Reid, short-lived series ""Drive"", ""The Forgotten"" (2009–10), Criminal Minds and ""Work"
"and his feminist wife Marcy, who later gets remarried to Jefferson D'Arcy, a white-collar criminal who becomes her ""trophy husband"" and Al's sidekick. Most storylines involve Al's schemes being foiled by his own cartoonish dim wit and bad luck. The series comprises 259 episodes and 11 seasons. Its theme song is ""Love and Marriage"" by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, performed by Frank Sinatra from the 1955 television production ""Our Town"". The first two seasons of the series were videotaped at ABC Television Center in Hollywood. From season three to season eight, the show was taped at Sunset Gower"
"""'Allo 'Allo!"", a sitcom in which Kelly appeared. Storylines for a potential series had been drafted by writer Mike Bullen during production of the pilot. When production on the series began, producer Christine Langan worked with him to create detailed plots for all six episodes, also acting as a script editor to redraft Bullen's work. Many of the plots were drawn from his own life; Pete and Jenny bringing up their new baby paralleled Bullen and his wife, whose first child was born in late 1997. The scenes where Pete and Jenny attend the antenatal classes were written from Bullen's"
"through. However, Vigoreaux moved on when he and his second wife, Lydia Echevarria, began hosting the show named ""La Hora Cero"". The show presented many local and international singers, including Celia Cruz, José Feliciano and Marco Antonio Muñiz. The Vigoreaux family became one of the most famous families in Puerto Rico. Some even referred to the Vigoreaux-Echevarria couple as the ""Lucy and Desi"" of Puerto Rico, in reference to the marriage of American comedians Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. In 1970, Vigoreaux developed a game show named ""Sube Nene, Sube"". Hosted by Vigoreaux it became one of the most seen"
"work with Allen, Rose was a TV comedy writer, working for comedians such as Johnny Carson, while he was the host of ""The Tonight Show"", Dean Martin (""The Dean Martin Show"", 1973) and Sid Caesar (1963). He also wrote for the Smothers Brothers and ""All in the Family"". His other screenplays for films were for ""I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?"" (1975) and ""Student Bodies"" (1981); he also directed the latter. Rose was married to Judy Wolf from 1963 until her death in 2003; they were introduced by Allen and his first wife, Harlene Rosen. Allen was Rose's best man"
"Kathleen Maguire Kathleen Maguire (September 27, 1925, New York City, New York – August 9, 1989, The Bronx, New York) was an American actress who won an Obie Award in 1958 for her performance in the stage play, ""The Time of the Cuckoo"". She was also known for two roles in two short lived soap operas on television, first as wealthy widow, Kate Austen on ""A Flame in the Wind""; and as extremely conservative doctor's wife, Adrian Sims on the series ""A World Apart"". She later replaced Doris Belack in the role of Anna Wolek Craig in the long-running serial"