Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati, and Harold Lloyd meet in 1959 in celebration of Tati's winning of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film of 1958 with his visual comedy "Mon Oncle."
Half a Sixpence
John Cleese and Terry Gilliam met while appearing in a West End production of the musical Half a Sixpence, starring Tommy Steele. It was in the same production that Cleese met his future wife Connie Booth. The book for Half a Sixpence was written by Beverley Cross, later married to Maggie Smith.
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