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I'm sure we can all remember the great man today.
As with @barryt007 I'm so glad I had the pleasure to see him in 2015, a true highlight of this Bond fans life.
Sir Roger will always make people smile and laugh, that clip cracks me up every time.
Roger Moore.
Unfortunately I'll be travelling on work later today and so won't be able to view one of his films as I had planned. Nevertheless when I reach my hotel, I will be sure to raise a glass to, & reflect on, a legend. A very unique and special man & one of my favourite Bonds!
Last Time I Saw Paris, I figure was a breakthrough role for Rog. He was 27 at the time.
If you look at his IMDB page, he had been doing a lot of bit parts, tv and uncredited roles, and suddenly he's cast in a good supporting role, in a major Hollywood film starring not only Taylor in the lead, but also Van Johnson and Donna Reed (From Here to Eternity)
This is Rog in all his young glory. He was clearly cast for his look. The role called for a dashingly handsome, athletic looking playboy, who could pass as a tennis bum, and distraction for Liz's character, who was on the outs with hubby.
Rog might just supplant Sean as my most awe-inspiring Bond.
ie Sean never did romance scenes with the great Elizabeth Taylor. Liz was only 22 at the time.
This was vintage Liz, at the height of her star power, which carried on for a couple more decades.
If I was Rog, I would have framed those stills and hung them up in my main room, for all to gawk.
One of my favourite Liz stories, is that one of her seven husbands, a multi-billionaire ( can't remember which one) apparently decided, that now that he had accomplished all there was to accomplish in life, at least business& financial-wise, decided that all that remained to be done, was to marry Elizabeth Taylor. So he did.
Liz very much liked diamonds, so I guess she managed to squeeze him in for a bit.
I must research if Rog and Liz stayed friends over the years. That would be interesting to know.
Rog, again, I am in awe of your young self. Playing opposite Taylor, if only for a few scenes, in romance scenes no less....in such a big film, must have really put him on the map.
He even decked Van Johnson in the bar scene too, when he tried to pull Liz away from Rog.
Rog seemed to get more substantial roles after this film.
I'm enjoying some Saint episodes today in Roger's honor.
Roger Moore IS James Bond.
Here's to your 90th birthday!
Elizabeth Taylor, I am sure was very proud.
Circa 1973, she might have been telling people that way-back-when, she co-starred with the new James Bond.
Rog outlived Liz, even though he was 5 years older. Liz died 2011, age 79.
As we all know, Rog was a robust, older Knight of the realm, who almost pushed his time on this mortal coil to age 90.
Happy Birthday Dragster..and what a day to share ..!!
Yeah!
I know this is a bit controversial but I actually think I prefer him in Bond overall.
From what I've seen of him in The Saint, he seems a bit too "smirky" for me.
Thank you, Barry! :)
Indeed, Sir Roger remains my favourite Bond in my heart, though Tim Dalton is my favourite in my head.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/style/farewell-friend-roger-moore/.
REMEMBERING ROGER and the golden spy we loved...
http://markoconnell.co.uk/remembering-roger-and-the-golden-spy-we-loved/
I suspect Roger would have quipped about how they should have named the place after a "proper" actor.
That must have been a real honour to be there? I certainly would have been humbled to have been present for that event. Thanks for sharing!
I am watching the The Mirror Crack'd (1980) as part of my ongoing Elizabeth Taylor binge, and who should suddenly appear but the 27-year old Broz, with full poofed-up '80s hair clutched to Liz's bosom. He is basically a prop for Taylor.
I checked IMDB. This is one of Broz's earliest uncredited roles. He plays an actor playing a character, that Taylor also in actress-character, pulls to her bosom, in a scene from a movie that the two characters are shooting, as would befit Taylor, being a real-life Cleopatra, as well as the famous man-eating screen-Cleopatra.
Liz liked to play roles, that weren't too far from her real self.
So this is great. Both the young Rog and the young Broz played opposite the famous Taylor, age 27.
Both cast as play-things for the ultimate movie-star Taylor.
Good Bond-actor trivia question, I think.