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St_George · June 2019

NicNac wrote: »

St_George wrote: »

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

June 7th1994: Pierce Brosnan is announced as James Bond number five.

Twenty-five years ago to the day, eh? Ah, what a day that was... Bond was genuinely coming back after so many years away and *would* be a fixture in the 1990s. It was quite something back then (Even if Hollywood-handsome PBro clearly needed a good haircut and shave for the role ;) ).

Indeed. The relief was palpable.

To be honest, by that stage (I would have been 14, going on 15), I'd long been resigned to the fact that, as a cinematic entity beyond repeat showings of previous films, Bond was dead and buried. So, it wasn't relief for my adolescent self that summer's day; far more a very pleasant surprise. And Brosnan, who I'd dismissed as some sort of transatlantic journey-man TV actor when a wee one and Timbo was all a go-go (funny how pop culture aware I was as a child!) suddenly looked and felt right for the times. Both modern and retro at the same time (which, gloriously, GE itself turned out to be, of course).

All in all, it felt like very sunny news from what I recall. The future wouldn't just be (albeit decently done) Bond-ish rehashes like that summer's True Lies and Clear And Present Danger, but the *real* thing! :)

NicNac · June 2019

Ah @St_George even as a teen you were all pop cultered up were you not?

I was older and I remember waiting endlessly for news about a new Bond film after it all went quiet in 1990. No internet, so scraps of info from the daily paper or monthly movie magazine was about all we had. But I remained reasonably calm, never losing faith in Cubby.
And although GE never fully floated my boat (and to this day I don't know what it is that bothers me about it) it was witty and exciting. Brosnan was ok. Looked good, if a little starched. Occasional issues with line delivery. He got better over the years.

You are right though, it was sunny news. It did make the world feel a slightly better place.

RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 8th

1926: Kevin McClory is born--Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland.
(He dies 20 November 2006 at age 80--Dublin, Ireland.)

Kevin McClory
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/kevin-mcclory-427368.html
Co-author of the 'Thunderball' screenplay who sued Ian Fleming
Thursday 7 December 2006 01:00
Kevin O'Donovan McClory, screenwriter and film producer: born Dublin 8
June 1926; twice married (two sons, two daughters); died London 20
November 2006.[/b]

To devotees of James Bond history, the name Kevin McClory will be forever associated with Thunderball - the Ian Fleming novel, the court case surrounding it, and the film - and his myriad abortive attempts, countered by litigation, to launch an alternative James Bond film franchise.

Born in Dublin in 1926, Kevin O'Donovan McClory was a descendant of the literary Brontë family through his grandmother Alice McClory. His parents were both actors on the Irish stage, which fired Kevin's early desire to become an actor, but this ambition was hampered by severe dyslexia at school, and was finally blocked by a nervous stammer that was caused by a traumatic incident during the Second World War; in 1943, when serving in the Merchant Navy, Kevin McClory's ship was torpedoed while in the North Atlantic. He drifted over 700 miles in a lifeboat in freezing conditions with other crew members for 14 days, before being picked up off the coast of Ireland as one of the few remaining survivors.

In 1946, his desire still strong to be in show business and now with a greater appreciation of life, McClory talked his way into a £4-a-week job as a boom operator and "tea boy" at Shepperton Studios. Keen to be noticed, McClory worked in various capacities on classic British films including Anna Karenina (1948) and The Cockleshell Heroes (1955). It was during this early period at Shepperton that he formed a lifelong friendship with the director John Huston, another larger-than-life Irishman.

McClory was Huston's assistant on pictures like The African Queen (1951) and Moulin Rouge (1952), before graduating to Assistant Director on Huston's version of the Herman Melville classic Moby Dick (1956), starring Gregory Peck. This was McClory's stepping stone to becoming jack-of-all-trades on the mammoth production Around the World in 80 Days (1956), with him as the producer Mike Todd's assistant, as Assistant Producer and as Assistant Director.

McClory wanted more control over his own creative destiny and decided to write, produce and direct The Boy and the Bridge (1959). In the Bahamas, he met the wealthy Englishman Ivar Bryce, who formed Xanadu Productions with McClory to finance his first solo production. Bryce was a very close friend of the James Bond author Ian Fleming, and it wasn't long before, at Bryce's suggestion, McClory read several of Fleming's novels with a view to filming one of them.

The young and enthusiastic Irishman realised that these books had great potential. And great earning potential. However, McClory thought very much in visual terms, a hangover from his childhood dyslexia, and believed that he, Fleming and Bryce should collaborate on an original, more cinematic screenplay. To this triumvirate, he introduced Jack Whittingham, then ranked among the top 10 screenwriters in the UK, whose work had been received with great critical and public acclaim in Ealing Studios films including Mandy (1952) and The Divided Heart (1954).

Whittingham wrote a first-draft screenplay that eventually Ian Fleming would title Thunderball. The Bondwagon was about to start rolling, with the big bucks and the fame only a stone's throw away, or so McClory believed. Unfortunately for him, The Boy and the Bridge performed very badly at the box office and sank without a trace. Bryce and Fleming's initial enthusiasm for the young Irishman's handling the production of their first James Bond film project suddenly faded. Having expected the profits from The Boy and the Bridge to part-finance the Thunderball film, both Bryce and Fleming got cold feet and walked away from the project, leaving McClory high and dry.

When Ian Fleming sat at his typewriter at his Jamaican home, Goldeneye, in January 1961 to write his ninth Bond novel, he was in ill-health with heart trouble and felt very much a spent force. Writing to William Plomer, an old friend from his days with Naval Intelligence, who always proof-read and pre-edited his Bond novels, Fleming complained that he was

terribly stuck with James Bond. What was easy at 40 is very difficult at 50. I used to believe - sufficiently - in Bonds and blondes and bombs. Now the keys creak as I type and I fear the zest may have gone. Part of the trouble is having a wife and child. They knock the ruthlessness out of one. I shall definitely kill off Bond with my next book - better a poor bang than a rich whimper!

Perhaps it was no surprise, then, that a tired writer would turn to a convenient formed idea. Why let it go to waste? So Fleming based his ninth novel, Thunderball, on the collaborative screenplay, without any idea of including any credit for McClory's input and Whittingham's screen treatment. It would prove to be a costly error in judgement.

Before the publication of Thunderball on 27 March 1961 in London by Jonathan Cape, Kevin McClory obtained an advance proof copy of the novel. As soon as he realised that Fleming had plagiarised their collaborative screenplay, he sent a warning letter to the publishers that if they published the book as it stood he would take legal action. Receiving no answer, McClory sued. McClory was out to stop Jonathan Cape from representing Thunderball as the sole work of Fleming.

At a hearing, a judge decided that, since the accused had insufficient time to mount a defence, and publication of Thunderball was already so well advanced it couldn't be stopped, McClory and Whittingham's application would be refused. A little over two weeks after the failed book injunction, Ian Fleming suffered a major heart attack during the regular Tuesday-morning conference at The Sunday Times. He was rushed to the London Clinic, where he remained for a month.

The ensuing case that began on 20 November 1963 at the High Court in London was heavily covered in the media. Newspaper headlines screamed, "James Bond in a Thunderball clash!" Whittingham found it necessary to withdraw as co-plaintiff due to escalating costs, but, although in extreme ill-health, he returned loyally every day to support McClory. After nine days in court both Ivar Bryce and Ian Fleming decided to settle. McClory demanded £55,000.

In the final outcome, McClory was awarded £35,000 and his court costs paid (totalling £52,000), plus the film and television rights to all the existing Thunderball screen treatments. However, even though he had won the case, he was unhappy with the financial result and never paid his lawyer's costs. He also did nothing to help Whittingham meet his crippling court costs.

Fleming had two further serious heart attacks during the trial. On 12 August 1964, he suffered a final, fatal heart attack, aged 56, and died in the Kent and Canterbury Hospital.

Thunderball was eventually made into a film in 1965 by the producers Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli & Harry Saltzman, who "presented' the film for their company EON Productions. McClory was billed as producer on the film and Thunderball credited as being "Based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham & Ian Fleming". The film grossed $141.2m worldwide. Whittingham died of a heart attack in Malta in 1973, his contribution to the cinematic legacy of James Bond all but forgotten and unrecognised.

In 1983 Kevin McClory acted as executive producer on Never Say Never Again, a remake of Thunderball, for which Sean Connery returned after 12 years to star as James Bond, going head-to-head with Roger Moore as Bond in Octopussy. The film grossed an estimated £137.5m worldwide.

One of McClory's closest friends during the late Fifties and Sixties was Jeremy Vaughn, who also knew Ian Fleming well as his neighbour in Jamaica. He told Robert Sellers, author of the upcoming The Battle for Bond, that

Kevin was a smooth operator, an attractive character, but not a particularly pleasant one, certainly compared to his brother, Desmond, who was one of the kindest people you could ever meet. If a friend was in trouble, Desmond would always be there. Kevin would just tell you to piss off, if you weren't any good to him.

He's been very cruel to a number of people over the years who thought they were his friends. The overdriving thing with Kevin was that he just wanted to be a celebrity, he wanted to be famous . . . He probably had some semi-professional technical interest in making a film, but he really wanted the glamour.

McClory continued to be involved in legal wrangles over the years. In the 1990s, he announced plans to make Warhead 2000 AD, another adaptation of the Thunderball story, which was to have been made by Sony, with Timothy Dalton in the lead role, but this was eventually scrapped.

"It was Kevin's burning ambition, these [Bond] movies," Vaughn said,

but I don't think he gave a damn who he walked over and what he did in order to get there. Kevin had a project in life and that project was Kevin McClory.

Graham Rye

Kevin McClory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McClory
Second World War
As a teenaged radio officer in the British Merchant Navy, McClory endured attacks by German U-boats on two different occasions. The first attack occurred on 20 September 1942 was while he was serving aboard The Mathilda. A U-Boat surfaced and attacked the ship with heavy machine gun fire. The crew of the ship fired back and the U-Boat retreated. The second attack occurred on 21 February 1943 when McClory was serving on the Norwegian tanker Stigstad, which was attacked by torpedo from multiple U-boats. The ship sank and McClory and the other survivors made it to a life raft. They survived in terrible conditions for two weeks and traveled more than 600 miles before being rescued off the coast of Ireland. Two seaman died on the raft and a third died soon after they were rescued. McClory suffered severe frostbite and lost the ability to speak for more than a year after the incident. When he recovered his voice he was left with a pronounced stammer. He served out the rest of the war in the British Navy.

1994: EON introduces Pierce Brosnan as their new Bond in the Drawing Room of London's Regent Hotel.

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2018: Eunice Elizabeth Sargaison (Eunice Gayson) dies at age 90--London, England.
(Born 17 March 1928--Croydon, South London, England.)

Eunice Gayson obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/10/eunice-gayson-obituary
Stage and screen actor who found fame playing Sylvia Trench, the
first Bond girl, opposite Sean Connery
Toby Hadoke | Sun 10 Jun 2018 13.04 EDT | Last modified on Mon 11 Jun 2018 17.00 EDT

Eunice Gayson as Sylvia Trench in Dr No, 1962.
Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/UA/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock

Eunice Gayson, who has died aged 90, was an actor with a film, television and theatre career that spanned several decades. Despite this, she will be forever associated with her unique place in cinema history as the first Bond girl.

Exactly eight minutes into the running of the 1962 film Dr No, Sean Connery utters the words “Bond, James Bond” for the first time, in answer to a question from Gayson, whose character has introduced herself at the card table as “Trench, Sylvia Trench”. With typical efficiency, Bond adds Miss Trench to his list of conquests shortly after their casino encounter and he later finds her hitting golf balls in his apartment dressed only in his shirt. Their playful exchange is momentarily interrupted when he is summoned to Jamaica on a mission, a clear demonstration of Bond’s constant juggling of business and pleasure.

Unlike the other women on the Bond girl list, Gayson played the same character in more than one of the extremely successful franchise’s films. Trench turns up again in From Russia With Love (1963), when her afternoon punting with 007 has to be curtailed when he gets a call from headquarters. The intention was that Miss Trench would be a regular presence in the films, part of a running joke involving their assignations being cut short when espionage obligations arose at an inopportune moment. Guy Hamilton, the director of the next film in the series – Goldfinger (1964) – had other ideas however, and kiboshed the plan.

Eunice Gayson and Sean Connery in Dr No, 1962.
Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/UA/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock

No matter, for by then Gayson’s claim to cinematic immortality was unimpeachable, even though her voice was not heard in either film: she was dubbed by the actor Nikki van der Zyl. No criticism of Gayson should be inferred – Van der Zyl dubbed the majority of female voices in Dr No and many others in future Bond films. Gayson’s perfectly acceptable vocal performance, playful and seductive, can still be heard on the film’s original trailer. She might have had a different slice of Bond movie immortality had the original plan – that she play the recurring role of Miss Moneypenny – gone ahead. As it was, Lois Maxwell took the role (and played it for 23 years). Nevertheless Trench was an important part – Gayson received higher billing than Maxwell in both films – and the actor helped a nervous Connery during that crucial first scene.

She was born in Streatham, south London, the elder of twin daughters and the middle of three children of John Sargaison, a civil servant, and his wife, Maria (nee Gammon). The family moved to Purley, Surrey, then Glasgow and finally Edinburgh, where Eunice enrolled at the Edinburgh Academy. A gifted soprano, she trained as an opera singer and in 1946, aged 18, made her professional debut playing a small role in Ladies Without at the Garrick theatre in London.

That Christmas, she was Princess Luv-Lee in Aladdin (Grand theatre, Derby), with the Stage describing her as a “vivacious” performer “who sings, dances and acts extremely well”. By the end of the decade she was appearing regularly on television – in music shows, revues and television pantomimes. In 1954 she was selected to be a panellist on Guess My Story, a programme in the vein of What’s My Line but featuring disguised celebrities.

Her film break had come in 1948, in My Brother Jonathan, and her other work on the big screen included Melody in the Dark (1949), Dance Little Lady (1954), Basil Dearden’s Out of the Clouds (1955) and Hammer’s The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), in which she played the female lead.

When she was cast in Dr No she was having success on stage playing the Baroness in the original London production (at the Palace theatre, 1962) of The Sound of Music which ran for more than 2,000 performances (she was one of its longest running cast members).

Her other theatre work included Over the Moon (Piccadilly theatre, 1953) and Uproar in the House (Whitehall theatre, 1968, taking over from Joan Sims), Victor Spinetti’s production of Duty Free (on tour 1976-77), The Grass is Greener (with Richard Todd, 1971, in Stratford-upon-Avon for the Royal Shakespeare Company), and An Ideal Husband and Kismet (both 1980, at the Connaught theatre, Worthing). One final run in the West End as the grandmother in Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods (Phoenix theatre, 1990-91) was followed by pantomime in the Isle of Man in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Gaiety theatre, 1992).

Her 1953 marriage to the writer Leigh Vance was seen by three million American viewers when it was part of the television show Bride and Groom (“sponsored by Betty Crocker’s Piecrust Mix”). The marriage was dissolved six years later and in 1968 she married the actor Brian Jackson. That marriage also ended in divorce but produced a daughter, Kate, who survives her. Kate appeared in the casino scene in the Pierce Brosnan Bond film GoldenEye (1995).

• Eunice Gayson (Eunice Elizabeth Sargaison), actor, born 17 March 1928; died 8 June 2018
• This article was amended on 11 June 2018, to add further details of Eunice Gayson’s early life

2019: World Gin Day. (The second Saturday in June)

retrokitty · June 2019

St_George wrote: »

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

June 7th1994: Pierce Brosnan is announced as James Bond number five.

Twenty-five years ago to the day, eh? Ah, what a day that was... Bond was genuinely coming back after so many years away and *would* be a fixture in the 1990s. It was quite something back then (Even if Hollywood-handsome PBro clearly needed a good haircut and shave for the role ;) ).

Funny that they told Lazenby to skip the premiere of OHMSS if he wasn't going to shave off his beard but they bring PBro in with hairs akimbo.

RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 9th

1917: The Roll of Honour in The Illustrated London News recognizes Valentine Fleming.

Valentine Fleming's Eulogy by Winston Churchill Known at: May 1917
https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/2483530

AN APPRECIATION
‘W. S. C.’ writes of the death of Major Valentine Fleming, M.P., who,
as announced in The Times on Wednesday, was killed in action:-

This news will cause sorrow in Oxfordshire and in the House of Commons and wherever the member of the Henley Division was well known. Valentine Fleming was one of those younger Conservatives who easily and naturally combine loyalty to party ties with a broad liberal outlook upon affairs and a total absence of class prejudice.

He was most earnest and sincere in his desire to make things better for the great body of the people, and had cleared his mind of all particularist tendencies. He was a man of thoughtful and tolerant opinions, which were not the less strongly or clearly held because they were not loudly or frequently asserted.

He shared the hopes to which so many of his generation respond of a better, fairer, more efficient public life and Parliamentary system arising out of these trials. But events have pursued a different course.

As a Yeomanry officer he always took the greatest pains to fit himself for military duties. There was scarcely an instructional course open before the war to the Territorial Forces of which he had not availed himself, and on mobilization there were few more competent civilian soldiers of his rank. The Oxfordshire Hussars were the first or almost the first Yeomanry regiment to come under the fire of the enemy, and in the first battle of Ypres acquitted themselves with credit.

He had been nearly three years in France, as squadron leader or second in command, and had been twice mentioned in dispatches, before the shell which ended his life found him. From the beginning his letters showed the deep emotions which the devastation and carnage of the struggle aroused in his breast.

But the strength and buoyancy of his nature were proofs against the sombre realizations of his mind. He never for a moment flagged or wearied or lost his spirits. Alert, methodical, resolute, untiring he did his work, whether perilous or dull, without the slightest sign of strain or stress to the end. ‘We all of us,’ writes a brother officer, ‘were devoted to him.

The loss to the regiment is indescribable. He was, as you know, absolutely our best officer, utterly fearless, full of resource, and perfectly magnificent with his men.’ His passion in sport was deer stalking in his much-loved native Scotland. He rode well and sometimes brilliantly to hounds, and was always a gay and excellent companion.

He had everything in the world to make him happy; a delightful home life, active interesting expanding business occupations, contented disposition, a lovable and charming personality. He had more. He had that foundation of spontaneous and almost unconscious self-suppression in the discharge of what he conceived to be his duty without which happiness, however full, is precarious and imperfect. That these qualities are not singular in this generation does not lessen the loss of those in whom they shine.

As the war lengthens and intensifies and the extending lists appear, it seems as if one watched at night a well-loved city whose lights, which burn so bright, which burn so true, are extinguished in the distance in the darkness one by one.

Published in The Times, United Kingdom

1963: Director Terence Young hosts a party with guest of honor Pedro Armendáriz.
1967: The NBC-TV special Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond airs.

jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Welcome_to_Japan,_Mr._Bond
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2009: Media speculation on BOND 23 locations runs to Afghanistan and drug capers.
2016: An event celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Duke of Edinburgh awards, Buckinghamshire.
Attendants include the Royals, Sir Roger Moore, Dame Judi Dench, Michael G. Wilson.

RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 10th

1906: Ivar Felix Charles Bryce is born--London, England.
(He dies 27 April 1985 at age 78--Birdbrook, Braintree District, Essex, England.)

Ivar Bryce
https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbryceI.htm

Ivar Bryce was born in 1906. His father had made a fortune trading guano, the phosphate-rich deposit of fish-eating seabirds which had been widely used as a natural fertilizer. His mother was a painter and a published author of detective novels.

In 1917 Bryce met Ian Fleming and his brothers on a beach in Cornwall: "The fortress builders generously invited me to join them, and I discovered that their names were Peter, Ian, Richard and Michael, in that order. The leaders were Ian and Peter, and I gladly carried out their exact and exacting orders. They were natural leaders of men, both of them, as later history was to prove, and it speaks well for them all that there was room for both Peter and Ian in the platoon."

Bryce was sent to Eton College where he resumed his friendship with Fleming. Bryce purchased a Douglas motorbike and used this vehicle for trips around Windsor. He also took Fleming on the bike to visit the British Empire Exhibition in London. They also published a magazine, The Wyvern, together. Fleming used mother's contacts to persuade Augustus John and Edwin Lutyens, to contribute drawings. The magazine also published a poem by Vita Sackville-West. The editors showed their right-wing opinions by publishing an article in praise of the British Fascisti Party. It argued that its "primary intention is to counteract the present and every-growning trend towards revolution... it is of the utmost importance that centres should be started in the universities and in our public schools".

During the Second World War Bryce worked for William Stephenson, the head of British Security Coordination (BSC), a unit that was based in New York City. According to Thomas E. Mahl, the author of Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939-44 (1998): "Bryce worked in the Latin American affairs section of the BSC, which was run by Dickie Coit (known in the office as Coitis Interruptus). Because there was little evidence of the German plot to take over Latin America, Ivar found it difficult to excite Americans about the threat."

Nicholas J. Cull, the author of Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign Against American Neutrality (1996), has argued: "During the summer of 1941, he (Bryce) became eager to awaken the United States to the Nazi threat in South America." It was especially important for the British Security Coordination to undermine the propaganda of the American First Committee that had over a million paid-up members. Bryce recalls in his autobiography, You Only Live Once (1975): "Sketching out trial maps of the possible changes, on my blotter, I came up with one showing the probable reallocation of territories that would appeal to Berlin. It was very convincing: the more I studied it the more sense it made... were a genuine German map of this kind to be discovered and publicised among... the American Firsters, what a commotion would be caused."

William Stephenson approved the idea and the project was handed over to Station M, the phony document factory in Toronto run by Eric Maschwitz, of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). It took them only 48 hours to produce "a map, slightly travel-stained with use, but on which the Reich's chief map makers... would be prepared to swear was made by them." Stephenson now arranged for the FBI to find the map during a raid on a German safe-house on the south coast of Cuba. J. Edgar Hoover handed the map over to William Donovan. His executive assistant, James R. Murphy, delivered the map to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The historian, Thomas E. Mahl argues that "as a result of this document Congress dismantled the last of the neutrality legislation."

Ivar Bryce

Nicholas J. Cull has argued that Roosevelt should not have realised it was a forgery. He points out that Adolf A. Berle, the Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, had already warned Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State that "British intelligence has been very active in making things appear dangerous in South America. We have to be a little on our guard against false scares."

Bryce wrote to Walter Lippmann in March 1942. He sent him a book by Hugo Artuco Fernandez that had been written at the behest of British intelligence. "I am sending you a copy of my friend Artuco's book, which I think will interest you... Some of it sounds rather alarming and exaggerated but it is much more accurate than most books on South America.... If you felt at all inclined to write anything about the dangers to South America, I could give you any number of facts which have never been published, but which my friends here would like to see judiciously made public at this point."

Bryce was based in Jamaica (his wife Sheila, owned Bellevue, one of the most important houses on the island), during the Second World War, where he ran dangerous missions into Latin America. Ian Fleming, who was personal assistant to Admiral John Godfrey, the director of naval intelligence, visited Bryce in 1941. Fleming told him that: "When we have won this blasted war, I am going to live in Jamaica. Just live in Jamaica and lap it up, and swim in the sea and write books."

In 1945 Bryce helped Fleming find a house and twelve acres of land just outside of Oracabessa. It included a strip of white sand on a lovely part of the coast. Fleming decided to call the house, Goldeneye, after his wartime project in Spain, Operation Goldeneye. Their former boss, William Stephenson, also had a house on the island overlooking Montego Bay. Stephenson had set up the British-American-Canadian-Corporation (later called the World Commerce Corporation), a secret service front company which specialized in trading goods with developing countries. William Torbitt has claimed that it was "originally designed to fill the void left by the break-up of the big German cartels which Stephenson himself had done much to destroy."

In 1950 Bryce married Josephine Hartford. Her grandfather, George Huntington Hartford, was the founder of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. Josephine was the daughter of Princess Guido Pignatelli and Edward V. Hartford, who was an inventor and president of the Hartford Shock Absorber Company. A former concert pianist she was one of the leading racehorse owners in the United States.

Bryce joined with Ernest Cuneo and a group of investors, including Ian Fleming, to gain control of the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Andrew Lycett has pointed out: "With the arrival of television, its star had begun to wane. Advised by Ernie Cuneo, who told him it was a sure way to meet anyone he wanted, Ivar stepped in and bought control. He appointed the shrewd Cuneo to oversee the American end of things... and Fleming was brought on board to offer a professional newspaperman's advice." Fleming was appointed European vice-president, with a salary of £1,500 a year. He persuaded James Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley, that The Sunday Times should work closely with NANA. He also organized a deal with The Daily Express, owned by Lord Beaverbrook.

Bryce became a film producer and helped to finance The Boy and the Bridge (1959). The film lost money but Bryce decided he wanted to work with its director, Kevin McClory, again and it was suggested that they created a company, Xanadu Films. Josephine Hartford, Ernest Cuneo and Ian Fleming became involved in the project. It was agreed that they would make a movie featuring Fleming's character, James Bond.

The first draft of the script was written by Cuneo. It was called Thunderball and it was sent to Fleming on 28th May. Fleming described it as "first class" with "just the right degree of fantasy". However, he suggested that it was unwise to target the Russians as villains because he thought it possible that the Cold War could be finished by the time the film had been completed. He suggested that Bond should confront SPECTRE, an acronym for the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Revolution and Espionage. Fleming eventually expanded his observations into a 67-page film treatment. Kevin McClory now employed Jack Whittingham to write a script based on Fleming's ideas.

The Boy and the Bridge was a flop at the box-office and Bryce, on the recommendation of Ernest Cuneo, decided to pull-out of the James Bond film project. McClory refused to accept this decision and on 15th February, 1960, he submitted another version of the Thunderball script by Whittingham. Fleming read the script and incorporated some of the Whittingham's ideas, for example, the airborne hijack of the bomb, into the latest Bond book he was writing. When it was published in 1961, McClory claimed that he discovered eighteen instances where Fleming had drawn on the script to "build up the plot".

President John F. Kennedy was a fan of Fleming's books. In March 1961, Hugh Sidey, published an article in Life Magazine, on President Kennedy's top ten favourite books. It was a list designed to show that Kennedy was both well-read and in tune with popular taste. It included Fleming's From Russia With Love. Up until this time, Fleming's books had not sold well in the United States, but with Kennedy's endorsement, his publishers decided to mount a major advertising campaign to promote his books. By the end of the year Fleming had become the largest-selling thriller writer in the United States.

This publicity resulted in Fleming signed a film deal with the producers, Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, in June 1961. Dr No, starring Sean Connery, opened in the autumn of 1962 and was an immediate box-office success. As soon as it was released Kennedy demanded a showing in his private cinema in the White House.

Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham became angry at the success of the James Bond film and believed that Bryce, Ian Fleming and Ernest Cuneo had cheated them out of making a profit out of their proposed Thunderball film. The case appeared before the High Court on 20th November 1963. Three days into the case, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. McClory's solicitor, Peter Carter-Ruck, later recalled: "The hearing was unexpectedly and somewhat dramatically adjourned after leading counsel on both sides had seen the judge in his private rooms." Bryce agreed to pay the costs, and undisclosed damages. McClory was awarded all literary and film rights in the screenplay and Fleming was forced to acknowledge that his novel was "based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and the author."

Fleming encouraged Bryce to write his memoirs and gave him some advice on how to deal with the process. "You will be constantly depressed by the progress of the opus and feel it is all nonsense and that nobody will be interested. Those are the moments when you must all the more obstinately stick to your schedule and do your daily stint... Never mind about the brilliant phrase or the golden word, once the typescript is there you can fiddle, correct and embellish as much as you please. So don't be depressed if the first draft seems a bit raw, all first drafts do. Try and remember the weather and smells and sensations and pile in every kind of contemporary detail. Don't let anyone see the manuscript until you are very well on with it and above all don't allow anything to interfere with your routine. Don't worry about what you put in, it can always be cut out on re-reading; it's the total recall that matters." Bryce's autobiography, You Only Live Once, was published in 1975.

Ivar Bryce died in 1985.

Trivia

His wife Jo had a mansion on the New York / Vermont border which is the setting for two of Ian Fleming's James Bond stories, "For Your Eyes Only" and "The Spy Who Loved Me".

The Diamonds Are Forever James Bond novel is co-dedicated to Ivar Bryce (as "i.f.c.b") along with two other friends of Ian Fleming.

After Ian Fleming visited Jamaica in 1944 and decided he wanted to live there, Bryce home-hunted the island to find him a residence and discovered "Goldeneye" for him.

Ian Fleming named his James Bond character's CIA agent friend after Ivar Bryce's middle name, Felix. His surname was named after another of Fleming's friends, Tommy Leiter.

Is played by actor Patrick Ryecart in Goldeneye (1989).

Was involved in the early stages of the development of the James Bond movie Thunderball (1965).

He was married to A&P Supermarket heir Huntington Hartford's sister, Josephine Hartford. Huntington Hartford was the original owner and developer of Paradise Island in the Bahamas.

Bryce and Fleming leave court after settling with McClory.
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1937: Luciana Paluzzi is born--Rome, Lazio, Italy.
1972: Comic strip Trouble Spot ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 28 December 1971. 1810–1951) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://www.popoptiq.com/trouble-spot/

http://venusianfrogbroth.blogspot.com/2016/07/trouble-spot-by-lawrence-and-horak.html
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http://parttimefanboy.com/?p=667

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/comic_ts_review.php3

https://books.apple.com/ec/book/james-bond-and-trouble-spot/id1108333542?l=en

Swedish 1979 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1979.php3?s=comics&id=02181

Swedish 1989 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3?s=comics&id=02358

Danish 1974 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no27-1974/

1983: 13th Bond film Octopussy is released in the United States.

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1997: BOND 18 completes filming scenes with Paris Carver.
2015: The first Spectre television trailer appears in the US.

RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 11th

1959: An article in The Daily Express proposes a Bond film production headed by Kevin McClory favors Trevor Howard as OO7. And that Fleming prefers Peter Finch.

Trevor Howard

Peter Finch

Some support.

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25431/lot/26/

1963: The From Russia With Love production films the gypsy camp action.
1964: From Russia With Love released in Hong Kong.
2009: Announcements say BOND 23 writers include Peter Morgan working with Neal Purvis, Robert Wade.
2018: Anthony Horowitz promotes his Bond novel Forever and a Day at Waterstones Edinburgh.

Event schedule for Forever and a Day with author Anthony Horowitz:
https://jamesbond007.se/eng/event/forever_and_a_day_signing_event_schedule

• Waterstones Glasgow Lunchtime signing (11 June)
• Waterstones Edinburgh (11 June)
• Waterstones Manchester (12 June)
• Waterstones Reading (13 June)
• Waterstones Brighton (14 June)
• Chiswick Book Festival (15 September)
• Appledore Literary Festival (22 September)
• Henley Literary Festival (3 October)
• Cheltenham Literature Festival (6 October)

RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 12th

1927: Yaroslav Horak is born--Harbin, Manchuria.
1958: Ian Fleming writes a Bond television series outline for CBS, later used for short stories collected in For Your Eyes Only.

FLEMING, Ian. For Your Eyes Only. London: Jonathan Cape, [1960].
https://www.davidbrassrarebooks.com/pages/books/04319/ian-fleming/james-bond/?soldItem=true

Gilbert A8a (1.1).

For Your Eyes Only. "Following the success of the 1954 American television adaptation of Casino Royale for the drama series Climax!, CBS approached Ian Fleming again in 1958 regarding a proposed television show based on the James Bond character, wanting the author to write thirty-two episodes over a two-year period. Henry Chancellor, in his book, James Bond: The Man and His World states that a deal was negotiated for thirteen episodes, and that Fleming provided a compilation of seven new stories, plus recycled episodes from his already published novels at that time. A letter in the Jonathan Cape archive concerning the project states: 'what I wish to sell is the television rights in the name and character of James Bond, together with ten specimen episodes and some editorial notes. These I have supplied and are with him [producer Maurice Winnick]' (TLS, to Wren Howard, 13th May 1959/Cape Archive MS2446). Fleming further states that he did not wish to be contracted to 'writing episodes or otherwise slaving', and the proposed shows never went into production. Later that year, and seemingly with his plots running dry, Fleming gathered his outlines and developed them into a collection of short stories." (Gilbert).

For Your Eyes Only is a collection of short stories by the British author Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. Fleming's eighth novel to feature his British Secret Service agent James Bond. Published by Jonathan Cape on 11th April 1960 it marked a change of format for Fleming, who had previously written James Bond stories only as full-length novels. The five short stories were From a View to a Kill; For Your Eyes Only; Quantum of Solace; Risico; and The Hildebrand Rarity.

1967: London premiere of You Only Live Twice.

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1972: Bond comic strip Isle of Condors begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 21 October 1972. 1952–2065) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/ioc.php3?s=comics&id=01483

http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2012/11/09/5-reasons-why-james-bond-rules-the-james-bond-omnibus-volume-004-review/
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https://www.popoptiq.com/isle-of-condors/

Swedish 1974 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1974.php3?s=comics&id=01800

Danish 1974 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-28-1974/

1985: Premiere of A View to a Kill at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London.

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1989: MCA Records releases "If You Asked Me To" sung by Patti LaBelle.

Mathis1 · June 2019

retrokitty wrote: »

St_George wrote: »

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

June 7th1994: Pierce Brosnan is announced as James Bond number five.

Twenty-five years ago to the day, eh? Ah, what a day that was... Bond was genuinely coming back after so many years away and *would* be a fixture in the 1990s. It was quite something back then (Even if Hollywood-handsome PBro clearly needed a good haircut and shave for the role ;) ).

Funny that they told Lazenby to skip the premiere of OHMSS if he wasn't going to shave off his beard but they bring PBro in with hairs akimbo.

If I recall Brossa was playing Robinson Crusoe in a movie at the time, hence the beard and hair!

Thunderfinger · June 2019

Happy Birthday, Mr Horak!

Revelator · June 2019

Glad he's still around and enjoying acclaim for his work!

RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 13th

1940: During an air raid, Lieutenant (Sp) Ian Fleming RNVR on an RAF plane lands at a deserted airfield near Chateaudun, France, between Orleans and Le Man.
1967: General release of the fifth Bond film You Only Live Twice in the US and the UK.

1985: General release of A View to a Kill in the UK.

1989: The sixteenth Bond film Licence to Kill premieres at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London.

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2006: BOND 21 films the Miami airport tanker chase at Dunsfold Aerodrome, Cranleigh, Surrey, England.
2010: Jimmy Dean dies at age 81-- Varina, Virginia. (Born 10 August 1928--Plainview, Texas.)

Jimmy Dean dies at 81; country music star and sausage king
https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jimmy-dean-20100615-story.html
By Dennis McLellan
| Los Angeles Times | Jun 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Jimmy Dean helped bring country music into the mainstream in the 1960s. (CBS TV)

When the Country Music Assn. announced in February that Jimmy Dean would be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame later this year, Dean joked, "I thought I was already in there."

"Seriously, it brought a huge grin to my face," he said in a news release. "I am honored."

Dean already had been inducted into the Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Texas Music Hall of Fame in 2005.

That's not to mention his 2009 induction into the Meat Industry Hall of Fame.

Indeed, Dean, who died Sunday evening at his home in Henrico County, Va., at age 81, may be better known by some today as "the sausage king" of TV commercial fame than a hit-making country music star and one-time TV show host who helped bring country music into the mainstream in the 1960s.

The Texas-born entertainer and businessman, who began his recording career in the 1950s, scored a No. 1 hit on both the country and pop singles charts in 1961 with his spoken-narrative song about a coal miner — "a giant of a man" — who saves fellow workers from "a would-be grave" after their mine collapses.

"Big Bad John," which Dean said he wrote in an hour and a half on a flight from New York to Tennessee, earned a Grammy Award for best country and western recording.

The 1960s were the down-home entertainer's heyday.

He went on to record hits including "Dear Ivan," "Little Black Book," "P.T. 109" (inspired by the Naval vessel commanded by John F. Kennedy during World War II) and "The First Thing Ev'ry Morning (And the Last Thing Ev'ry Night)."

From 1963 to '66, he hosted "The Jimmy Dean Show," an hourlong TV musical variety show that ran on ABC and featured singers including Roger Miller, George Jones and Buck Owens. The show also regularly featured Dean's humorous banter with a "dog" named Rowlf, the first of Jim Henson's Muppets to attract national attention.

Along with headlining in Las Vegas and performing in venues such as Carnegie Hall and the London Palladium, Dean played fur trapper Josh Clements on Fess Parker's "Daniel Boone" series in the late '60s and had the supporting role of a reclusive billionaire in the 1971 James Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever."

He launched the Jimmy Dean Meat Co. in the late '60s, after previously buying a hog farm in his native Texas.

"Everything was fine and dandy until hog prices dropped out," he told the Richmond Times-Dispatch in 2004. "One morning I was having breakfast at a little old diner in Plainview — sausages and eggs — and reached up and plucked a [large] piece of gristle out of my teeth."

It was then, he said, that he became determined to produce a quality sausage.

"It was not something I just put my name on," he said. "It was my money and my sausage and my work — and those commercials that they think are so funny."

After selling his meat company to what later became known as the Sara Lee Corp. in 1984, he remained as chairman of the board and TV spokesman. After he was dropped as spokesman in 2003, Dean reportedly stopped eating the products that bear his name and changed his license plates that read SSG KING.

Dean was born Aug. 10, 1928, in Olton, Texas, and grew up in Plainview. He and his brother Don were raised on a farm by their mother after their father left when Dean was still a child. They were so poor, he once said, he wore shirts that his mother made out of sugar sacks.

Poverty, Dean told the Times-Dispatch, "was the greatest motivating factor in my life."

He began singing early on, and his mother taught him to play his first chord on the piano when he was 10. He later taught himself to play the harmonica, guitar and accordion.

Dropping out of high school at 16, he joined the Merchant Marines and later served in the Air Force. While stationed at a base in Washington, D.C., Dean and three other airmen formed a country music quartet that played local honkytonks.

After his discharge in 1948, Dean formed the Texas Wildcats. He began developing a following with a show on an Arlington, Va., radio station and had his first country top 10 hit, "Bumming Around," in 1953.

Dean and the Texas Wildcats moved to local television in 1955, and from 1957 to 1959 he hosted the first version of "The Jimmy Dean Show," a half-hour daily variety series on CBS.

Thirty Years of Sausage, Fifty Years of Ham: Jimmy Dean's Own Story, a 2004 autobiography, was co-written with his second wife, Donna Meade Dean, a singer and songwriter he married in 1991.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by his children from his first marriage, Garry Dean, Connie Dean Taylor and Robert Dean; and two granddaughters.

[email protected]

Thunderfinger · June 2019

Fun to see that Herve Villechaize attended the LTK premiere. Hope Richard Kiel wasn t seated in front of him.

RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 14th

1963: The From Russia With Love production films the Russian consulate explosion and following action.
1973: Goldfinger re-released in The Netherlands.
1989: Licence to Kill UK general release.

2001: Putnam publishes the Raymond Benson Bond novel Never Dream of Dying in the US.

THE NEW BOND ADVENTURE

After a moment's silence came the voice. "Here we are
again, Mister Bond. We seem to meet under the most
unusual circumstances"

Bond shot toward the voice, but then he herad
Cesari laugh behind him. Bond twisted again and fired.
There was silence and then the voice came from yet
another place in the dark.

You're in my habitat now, Mister Bond," Cesari
said. "You can't see a thing, can you?"

Bond could hear Cesari's voice moving. He fired the
gun into the darkness again, but the laugh came from
a different direction.

Then the club struck him hard on the right shoulder
blade.

"Have you any strange dreams lately, Mister
Bond?" Cesari asked as Bond fell to the ground in
agony. "You know what they say . . . never dream of
dying. It just might come true."

NEVER
DREAM OF
DYING

In Raymond Benson's chilling new James Bond
novel, 007 comes face to face at last with the
most cunning criminal mastermind he has ever
fought--the blind genius behind the brutal
organization called the Union.

It begins at a movie studio in Nice, where
a police raid goes horribly wrong, with inno-
cent men, women, and even children killed. It
continues in an English prison, where a corspe
discloses an intriguing secret about the Union.
The trail leads James Bond to Paris, where
he meets the tantalizing movie start Tylyn
Mignonne and embarks on a voyage of sensu-
al discovery.

But Tylyn is in mortal danger. Her former
husband, a volatile French film producer, has
not forgiven his glamourous ex-wife for ending
their troubled marriage--and he is connected
to the Union's thugs.

Meanwhile Bond's friend Mathis, a French
agent, has disappeared while tracking down
the Union's mysterious leader, Le Gérant.
Bond's search for Mathis takes him to a
thrilling underwater brush with death, a chase
through the Corsican wilderness, a surprise
encounter with an old friend--and a final con-
frontation with a twisted criminal genius.

Raymond Benson is the author of Doubleshot.
High Time to Kill, The Facts of Death, and Zero
Minus Ten, and the novelizations for the films
Th World Is Not Enough and Tomorrow Never
Dies. A director of the Ian Fleming Foundation,
he lives and works in the Chicago area.

Jacket design, Thomas Tafuri
Front Jacket image courtesy
Fontenille Pataud, France

2003: The Queen's Birthday Honours see Sir Roger Moore promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) for his philanthropic work with UNICEF and Kiwanis International. (He was already created a Commander of that order on 31 December 1998 in the New Year Honours List, for services to UNICEF.)

2015: Goldfinger re-released in the UK.
2015: BOND 24 films on the Thames River, London.

RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 15th

1959: In a letter responding to Ernest L. Cuneo's film outline, Ian Fleming suggests an organization called SPECTRE--vice SMERSH--be used to avoid the politics of the Soviets as the enemy.

("‘Since the film will take about two years to produce, and peace might conceivably break out in the meantime...")

2001: German DVD premiere of the 1967 Casino Royale.
2018: Film and Furniture gives detail to an immersive James Bond museum opening July in the Alps.

Immersive, minimalist mountaintop James
Bond museum
https://filmandfurniture.com/2018/06/immersive-minimalist-mountaintop-james-bond-museum-in-the-austrian-alps/
Feature By Film and Furniture
15 Jun 2018

A museum like no other opens in Soelden, Austria this July. Set 10,000 feet up Gaislachkogl Mountain sits the new stunning, immersive James Bond Museum – 007 Elements.
007 Elements – The James Bond Museum. Photo by Kristopher Grunert

Snowy landscapes and ski chases are an integral feature of Bond movies: Soelden’s striking architectural jewel the Ice Q restaurant was the real live location for the Hoffer [sic] Klinik in Spectre (2015). Accessed by cable car, the new series of multi-sensory galleries and cinematic installations that make up 007 Elements allow visitors to experience the Bond world of luxury and intrigue.

The “Briefing Room” at 007 Elements. Photo by Kristopher Grunert

The jaw dropping space was designed by Neil Callow (art director on Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre and the forthcoming Bond 25 ), Tino Schaedler (head of design at Optimist Inc.) in collaboration with Austrian architect Johann Obermoser and the team at Arch Omo Architektur, who designed the Ice Q.

The “Tech Lab” at 007 Elements. Photo by Kristopher Grunert

Built inside the mountain itself, each room of the museum allows visitors to explore different elements of the film – the characters, gadgets, music and locations.

“Our aim with 007 Elements is to tell the story of the making of 007 films in an ultra-modern, emotive and engaging way.” says the Museum.“Visitors are taken on a multi-sensory journey, with emotive soundscapes, dramatic programmed lighting, and high-quality visual projections.

“The structure of the storytelling, the rhythm of the spaces within the building, and the movement between light and shadow was designed to give visitors an experience closer to a movie than a traditional museum.”

A real spectacle!

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RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 16th

1989: Premiere of Licence to Kill in Dublin, Ireland.
1997: BOND 18 films the fight scene in the bicycle shop.

RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 17th

1967: You Only Live Twice released in Japan.

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1971: The Diamonds Are Forever production begins filming the pre-credit sequence.
1993: Corgi Toys sponsors The World's Biggest Little Motor Show, its second tour of full-scale/model Bond vehicles.

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2012: George Daniel Leech dies at age 90--Cardiff, Wales. (Born 6 December 1921--London, England.)

George Leech: Stuntman and actor
best known for his work on the Bond
films franchise
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/george-leech-stuntman-and-actor-best-known-for-his-work-on-the-bond-films-franchise-8008516.html
Gavin Gaughan | Monday 6 August 2012 00:00

The resourceful stunt arranger and performer George Leech epitomised the phrase "unsung hero of the film business".

Alongside the usual falls and fights of his trade, Leech walked along the arm of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio di Janeiro, fell from a cable car, and swam with sharks. He was particularly noted for his work on the James Bond franchise, which began with its inception in Dr No; he demonstrated remarkable durability and, in a minor way, established a dynasty of screen stunting.

Stern-visaged, with receding hair and slender in build compared to most stuntmen, Leech was among a generation who parlayed their military experiences during the Second World War into film action sequences, through an agency known as HEP (Howard, Evans and Powell). Another was Bob Simmons, stunt arranger for the Bond films.

George Leech was born in north London in 1921; his father worked in the London docks, and George was a small, pale child. To build him up, George's father and uncle gave him boxing lessons and he was soon a regular at a St Pancras boxing club. He won the ABA National Championships when he was 15 (at six and a half stone). After leaving school at 14, he joined the Navy in 1943 and won four fights as a welterweight. In 1946 he got his first job in the film industry, in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947); his first stunt involved rolling down a flight of stone steps in place of James Mason.

When flim work was not forthcoming, Leech performed in the then popular "open-air aqua shows", once appearing with Johnny Weismuller at the Earls Court Aqua Show.

Leech was among a team of British stuntmen provided by HEP for Helen of Troy (1955), made in Rome by the Italian division of Warner Brothers, with the pioneering Hollywood stuntman Yakima Canutt as second-unit director. When rehearsing one stunt jump of around 15 feet, Leech landed badly due to a gap between two mattresses, and broke his foot. An Italian first-aid man promptly realigned his foot to its correct place and bound it tightly; despite being in bandages, he was soon back at work, on Port Afrique (1956), starring Pier Angeli.

His earliest work for television was Teddy Gang (1956), an hour-long drama about rebellious youth made for Lew Grade's company ITC, by the producer Harry Alan Towers, who used Leech again on two minor film thrillers, Coast of Skeletons and Mozambique (both 1964). Again for ITC, Leech lurked in the background in a rollneck jumper and dark glasses, only emerging to take part in punch-ups, in Man in a Suitcase and The Prisoner (both 1967).

After The Guns of Navarone (1961), Leech was recruited as Simmons' assistant for Dr No (1962), in which he also doubled Sean Connery in a pool fight, and he continued in that position for the next four films. His onscreen appearances included taking a fall from a Fort Knox balcony in Goldfinger (1964), and a minor, nautical henchman in Thunderball (1965).

When Simmons was unavailable, Leech was his ideal replacement as stunt arranger for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), personally selecting a dozen stuntmen for the film. He later likened this task to "being in charge of a gang of unruly schoolboys." The production office once rang him to complain: "Please control your men. One is climbing the Eiger, another is skiing across a table while hotel guests are having breakfast and [George] Lazenby is shooting at animals on the Alps with a pistol and driving the insurance people and producers mad." To which Leech replied, "You can't keep a gang of virile men sitting on their arses waiting."

One of Leech's OHMSS stuntmen was Vic Armstrong, with whom he had previously worked on You Only Live Twice (1967). Armstrong would become one of the film world's most respected stuntmen, particularly for his work for Steven Spielberg; he also became Leech's son-in-law, marrying his daughter Wendy, who had successfully followed her father into the stunting profession. All three worked on Superman (1978), and later two granddaughters, Nina and Georgie, entered the family trade.

Simmons returned for Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Leech remained on hand, doubling for the campy assassin Putter Smith as he was set on fire at the climax. He also contributed to The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and For Your Eyes Only (1981), as a Greek heavy; neither The Wild Geese (1978) nor North Sea Hijack (1979) were Bonds, but both starred Roger Moore.

Leech took charge of stunts for Philip Martin's Gangsters (BBC, 1975) a Play For Today that led to a series. He was also a beekeeper accidentally assaulted with a spiked mace by Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976). One of his last credits as stunt arranger was in Ireland, on The Fantasist (1986), part of the sparse filmography of Robin Hardy, director of The Wicker Man.

Leech recalled the experience of working alongside genuine, hungry, sharks during Thunderball on an ITV documentary, 30 Years of James Bond (1992). In retirement he kept fit – even at the beginning of 2012 he was still jogging – and was a guest at Bond-themed conventions.

George Daniel Leech, stunt arranger and performer: born London 6 December 1921; married 1952 Elizabeth Mary Hopkins (two daughters); died Cardiff 17 June 2012.

30 Years of James Bond, 3/5, George Leech at 4:35

RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 18th

1960: Barbara Broccoli is born--Los Angeles, California.
1963: Pedro Armendáriz dies at age 51--Los Angeles, California. (Born 9 May 1912--Mexico City, Mexico.)

Pedro Armendáriz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Armendáriz

Armendáriz as Kerim Bey in From Russia with Love (1963)

Born Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings, May 9, 1912 - Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Died June 18, 1963 (age 51) - Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of death Suicide by gunshot
Burial place Panteón Jardín, Mexico City
Occupation Actor
Years active 1935–1963
Spouse(s) Carmelita Bohr
(m. 1938; his death 1963)
Children 2, including Pedro Jr.

Pedro Armendáriz (born Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings; May 9, 1912 – June 18, 1963) was a Mexican film actor who made films in both Mexico and the United States. With Dolores del Río and María Félix, he was one of the best-known Latin American movie stars of the 1940s and 1950s.

Early life
Armendáriz was born in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico to Pedro Armendáriz García Conde (Mexican) and Adela Hastings (American). He was also the cousin of actress Gloria Marín. Armendáriz and his younger brother Francisco lived with their uncle Henry Hastings, Sr. in Laredo, Texas after their mother died. He later studied in California. He started in the world of acting by participating in the stage plays performed by the theater group at the University of California, where he continued a career in law. He graduated with an engineering degree from the California Polytechnic State University.

Career

Armendáriz with Harry Carey Jr. and John Wayne in 3 Godfathers in 1949.

When Armendáriz finished his studies, he moved to Mexico where he worked for the railroad, as a tour guide and as a journalist for the bilingual magazine México Real. He was discovered by film director Miguel Zacarías when Armendáriz recited a soliloquy from Hamlet to an American tourist. His meeting with the director Emilio Fernández was providential, whereupon the actor and director began working in numerous films: Soy puro mexicano (1942), Flor silvestre (1942) and specially María Candelaria (1943) were the first films of intense common path. Under the guidance of Emilio Fernández, Pedro Armendáriz developed the film personality traits of strong nationalist; often, he played tough and manly men, indigenous, peasants and revolutionaries. Amendáriz repeatedly portrayed Pancho Villa and played opposite actresses such as Dolores del Río and María Félix.

With Dolores del Río, Amendáriz formed one of the most legendary couples of the Mexican cinema. María Candelaria provided Armendáriz with international visibility. The film was awarded the Palm d'Or at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. Other prominent titles where Armendáriz appeared with Dolores del Río were Las Abandonadas (1944), Bugambilia (1944) and La Malquerida (1949). Maria Felix was his other partner in such films as Enamorada (1946) or Maclovia (1948).[1]

In the late 40s, he made the jump to Hollywood by the hand of John Ford. Armendáriz was a favorite of Ford, appearing in three of his films: The Fugitive (1947), Fort Apache and 3 Godfathers (both 1948).

Armendáriz with Lana Turner in Diane in 1956.

Besides his career in the Mexican cinema, Armendáriz made a remarkable career in Hollywood and Europe. His other prominent films in Hollywood were: We Were Strangers (1949, directed by John Huston), The Torch (1950), Border River (1954), The Conqueror (1956) and Diane (1956), among others. In Europe, highlighted his participation in the film Lucrèce Borgia (1953), filmed in France. In Mexico, his participation highlighted such notable films such as El Bruto (1953, directed by Luis Buñuel), La Cucaracha (1959) and La Bandida (1962).

Armendáriz's last appearance was in the second James Bond film, From Russia with Love (1963), as Bond's ally, Kerim Bey. Armendáriz was terminally ill with cancer during the filming of From Russia with Love, and towards the end of shooting he was too ill to perform his part; his final scenes were performed by his double, director Terence Young. Armendáriz died four months before the release of the film.

Personal life

Armendáriz was married to actress Carmelita Bohr (née Pardo) by whom he had one son and daughter. Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. also became an actor and appeared in the James Bond film Licence to Kill (1989); his daughter Carmen Armendáriz became a TV producer.

Illness and death
In 1956, Armendáriz had a role in the film The Conqueror produced by Howard Hughes. Filmed in the state of Utah at the time when the US government was doing above-ground nuclear testing in neighboring Nevada, within 25 years 91 of the 220 people involved in the production were afflicted with cancer, 46 of whom died.

Armendáriz began to suffer pain in his hips; years later it was discovered that he had neck cancer. He learned his condition was terminal while at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California and, reportedly, endured great pain to film From Russia with Love (he visibly limps in most scenes) in order to assure his family financial resources.

On June 18, 1963, Armendáriz committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a gun he had smuggled into the hospital. He was 51 years old. He is buried in the Panteón Jardín cemetery in Mexico City, Mexico.

Filmography

Hollywood
Year Title Role Notes
1947
The Fugitive A lieutenant of police a.k.a. El Fugitivo (Mexico)
1948
Fort Apache Sgt. Beaufort as Pedro Armendáriz
3 Godfathers Pedro "Pete" Roca Fuerte as Pedro Armendáriz
1949
Tulsa Jim Redbird
We Were Strangers Armando Ariete
1950
The Torch José Juan Reyes a.k.a. Del odio nace el amor (Mexico)
1954
Border River General Eduardo Calleja
1955
The Littlest Outlaw Gen. Torres
1956
Diane King Francis I
The Conqueror Jamuga as Pedro Armendáriz
1957
The Big Boodle Col. Mastegui as Pedro Armendáriz
1959
Little Savage El Tiburón
The Wonderful Country Cipriano Castro
1961
Francis of Assisi The Sultan
1963
Captain Sindbad El Kerim as Pedro Armendáriz

British cinema
Year Title Role Notes
1963
From Russia with Love Ali Kerim Bey (final film role)

Italian cinema
Year
Title Role Notes
1955
Tom Toms of Mayumba Martinez
1957
Uomini e lupi Giovanni a.k.a. The Wolves
1962
Arrivano i titani Cadmo a.k.a. My Son, the Hero (USA)

French cinema
Year Title Role Notes
1953
Lucrèce Borgia César Borgia a.k.a. Lucretia Borgia
1955
Fortune carrée [fr] Igricheff

Mexican cinema
Year Title Role Notes
1935
Rosario Enrique
1936
Irma la mala
María Elena Eduardo
1937
Las cuatro milpas
Jalisco nunca pierde Pedro González
Amapola del camino Juan Padilla
1938
Mi candidato Pancho García
La Adelita Sabino Estrada
Los millones de Chaflán Antonio
Canto a mi tierra Antonio
1939 El indio Felipe
La reina del río Pescador joven
La china Hilaria Apolonio
Una luz en mi camino Daniel
Con los Dorados de Villa Mayor Pedro Mondragón
1940
Los olvidados de Dios Zenón Rojas
Poor Devil Raúl Solares
El charro negro Ramón
Mala yerba Chuy Rodríguez
El jefe máximo
1941
El secreto del sacerdote
El zorro de Jalisco Leonardo
Neither Blood nor Sand Frank
1942
Allá en el bajío Juan Hernández
La epopeya del camino Raúl
Del rancho a la capital Pedro Rodríguez
Simón Bolívar General Briceño Méndez
La isla de la pasión (Clipperton) El Toro
Soy puro mexicano Guadalupe Padilla
1943
Wild Flower Jose Luis Castro
Tierra de pasiones Porfirio
Guadalajara Pedro
Red Konga Federico Robles
Another Dawn Octavio
1944
María Candelaria Lorenzo Rafael
La guerra de los pasteles Antonio del Valle
El corsario negro El corsario negro
Las calaveras del terror Rolando
Alma de bronce
1945
Entre hermanos
Las Abandonadas Juan Gomez Nominated — Ariel Award for Best Actor
El Capitán Malacara Capitán Leonardo Buenrostro
Bugambilia Ricardo Rojas
1946
Rayando el sol Pedro, adulto
Enamorada Gen. José Juan Reyes Nominated — Ariel Award for Best Actor
1947
La casa colorada Gaspar
Albur de amor
The Pearl Quino Ariel Award for Best Actor
1948
Juan Charrasqueado Juan Robledo / Juan Charrasqueado
En la hacienda de la flor Juan Robledo - el hijo de Juan Charrasqueado
Maclovia José María
1949
Al caer la tarde Sebastian del Llano

Year Title Role Notes
1949
El abandonado Dámian López
The Unloved Woman Esteban
El charro y la dama Pedro Meneses
1950
Vuelve Pancho Villa Pancho Villa
La loca de la casa José María Cruz
Por la puerta falsa Bernardo Celis
Rosauro Castro Rosauro Castro Nominated — Ariel Award for Best Actor
1951
Tierra baja Manelic
Bodas de fuego Rodolfo Carrera
Camino del infierno Pedro Uribe
Por querer a una mujer José Renteria
Ella y yo Pedro Múñoz
1952
Los tres alegres compadres Baldomero Mireles
La noche avanza Marcos Arizmendi
Carne de presidio Pablo González
El Rebozo de Soledad Roque Suazo Ariel Award for Best Actor
1953
Lovers of Toledo Don Alvaro Blas Basto y Mosquera
El Bruto Pedro
1954
Reto a la vida Diego Maldonado
Mulata Captain Martín
La rebelión de los colgados Cándido Costa Nominated — Ariel Award for Best Actor
Dos mundos y un amor Ricardo Anaya
1956
La Escondida Felipe Rojano
Canasta de cuentos mexicanos Carlos Cosio (segment "Tigresa, La")
Viva revolución
1957
Manuela Mario Constanza
La mujer que no tuvo infancia Lic. Alberto Garza Cifuentes
Los salvajes Pedro Matías
Así era Pancho Villa Pancho Villa
1958
Quiero ser artista Himself
1959
Ando volando bajo Pedro
Café Colón General Sebastián Robles
Las Señoritas Vivanco Gen. Inocencio Torrentera
El zarco El Zarco
Flor de mayo Pepe Gamboa
Sed de amor Pedro Ortiz
La Cucaracha Coronel Valentín Razo
Yo pecador Francisco Bracamontes
Hambre nuestra de cada día Macario Férnandez
1960
Los desarraigados Joe Pacheco
Verano violento Francisco Peña
Dos hijos desobedientes Pedro
Calibre 44 Don Pedro
Pancho Villa y la Valentina Pancho Villa
Aquí está Pancho Villa Pancho Villa
El impostor Professor César Rubio
Los hermanos del hierro General
La cárcel de Cananea Pedro
1961
El indulto Lucas Sánchez Parrondo
1962
El tejedor de milagros Señor cura
Los valientes no mueren Pedro
1963
La Bandida Roberto Herrera

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1973: Apple Records releases the single "Live and Let Die" in the US. (B-side: "I Lie Around".)

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1973: Bond comic strip Die with My Boots On ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Began 1 March 1973. 2173–2256) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1009

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/dwmbo.php3

https://www.popoptiq.com/die-with-my-boots-on/

Swedish Semic Press 1982 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3?s=comics&id=02218

Danish 1974 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-30-1974/

1982: Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens dies at age 66--Vienna, Austria.
(Born 13 December 1915--Solin, Munich, Germany.)

CURT JURGENS, WAR FILMS' STAR
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/19/obituaries/curt-jurgens-war-films-star.html
UPI | JUNE 19, 1982

Curt Jurgens, the West German movie actor who was a star of countless World War II films, died in a hospital here today. He was 66 years old.

Mr. Jurgens had been hospitalized for the last two months. Friends said he had refused to reduce his activities despite years of heart trouble and the replacement of three heart valves in an operation in the United States two years ago.

His physician, Dr. Anton Neumayr, said he had been making progress up to a week ago but suffered a relapse Monday. Mr. Jurgens, who made more than 160 films, began his film career in 1936 with ''Imperial Waltz.'' He established himself internationally with performances in ''The Enemy Below'' in 1957 and a year later in ''Inn of the Sixth Happiness,'' co-starring with Ingrid Bergmann.

Mr. Jurgens went on to star in such films as ''The Blue Angel'' (1958), ''I Aim at the Stars'' (1959), ''Nicholas and Alexandra'' (1971) and the James Bond thriller ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977).

Born in Munich, Dec. 13, 1915, the son of a Hamburg tradesman and a French teacher, Mr. Jurgens's personality was a blend of German roughness and Southern charm. Swedish fans dubbed him the ''Viking with steel eyes.'' In Love With Screen Partners

Mr. Jurgens once said he enjoyed acting alongside any actress. ''Every time I fall madly in love with the woman I make love with on the screen,'' he said.

A strong believer in love at first sight, he was married five times, to three actresses - Lulu Basler, Judith Holzmeister and Eva Bartok - and to the model Simone Bicheron, before marrying Margie Schmitz in 1978.

With a taste for the romantic and extravagant, he once said the things he liked best were ''comfort, women, whisky, marriage and work.''

Mr. Jurgens owned a luxury villa on France's Cote d'Azur and a house in Lausanne, Switzerland. But his favorite retreat was a farm he owned in Vence, France, with a house consisting of just one big room with a bath for two sunken in front of a fireplace.

Partial Filmography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curd_Jürgens
Königswalzer (1935) as Kaiser Franz Joseph of Austria (Jürgens' first film)
Family Parade (1936) as Graf Erik Stjernenhö
The Unknown (1936) as Hans Wellenkamp
Love Can Lie (1937) as Student Holger Engström
To New Shores (1937) as Bobby Wells' Freund
Tango Notturno (1937) as Ein Freund Jacs, Musiker (uncredited)
Das Mädchen von gestern Nacht (1938) as Die drei Attachés (uncredited)
Salonwagen E 417 [de] (1939) as Prinz Heinrich Karl
Weltrekord im Seitensprung (1940) as Peter Enderlein - Kapellmeisster
Herz ohne Heimat (1940) as Bob (uncredited)
Operetta (1940) as Karl Millöcker
Stimme des Herzens (1942) as Volontär Drews
Whom the Gods Love (1942) as Emperor Joseph II
Women Are No Angels (1943) as Bandini
Ein glücklicher Mensch (1943) as Petersen
Ein Blick zurück (1944) as Dr. Erich Thienwiebel
Eine kleine Sommermelodie (1944) as Wolfgang Schwab
Das singende Haus [de] (1948) as Bandleader Hans Storch
Hin und her (1948) as Prinz Bernardo
The Angel with the Trumpet (1948) as Graf Leopold Thraun
An klingenden Ufern [de] (1948) as Stefan Keller
Der himmlische Walzer (1948) as Clemens M. Weidenauer
Verlorenes Rennen (1948) as George Miller
Das Kuckucksei (1949) as Dr. Kurt Walla
Lambert fühlt sich bedroht (1949) as Roland
Hexen (1949) as Heinz Wagner
Viennese Girls (1949) as Graf Lechenberg
Bonus on Death (1950) as Gunarson, Operntenor
Der Schuß durchs Fenster (1950)
Kissing Is No Sin (1950) as Kammersänger, Felix Alberti
The Disturbed Wedding Night (1950) as Lawrence Vinning
A Rare Lover (1950) as Sascha Borotraz
Ein Lächeln im Sturm (1951) as Jean Langrand
Geheimnis einer Ehe (1951) as Dirigent Felix Adrian
Der schweigende Mund (1951) as Architekt Reinhold
Gangsterpremiere (1951) as Kommissar
House of Life (1952) as Axel Jolander
Knall and Fall as Imposters (1952) as John Vandergold
1. April 2000 (1952) as Capitano Herakles
Rose of the Mountain (1952) as Composer Jack Long
Praterherzen (1953) as Toni Brandstetter
They Call It Love (1953) as Peter Malmö
Music by Night (1953) as Hans Kersten
The Last Waltz (1953) as Rittmeister Graf Sarassow
Everything for Father (1953) as Clemens Haberland
Meines Vaters Pferde I. Teil Lena und Nicoline [de] (1954) as Pat
A Woman of Today (1954) as Heinz Bender
Circus of Love (1954) as Toni
Prisoners of Love (1954) as Willi Kluge
Orient Express (1954) as Bate
The Confession of Ina Kahr (1954) as Paul Kahr
Du bist die Richtige [de] (1955) as Stefan Selby
Des Teufels General (1955) as Gen. Harry Harras
Liebe ohne Illusion [de] (1955) as Walter
Die Ratten (1955) as Bruno Mechelke
Heroes and Sinners (1955) as Wolf Gerke
Du mein stilles Tal [de] (1955) as Gerd
Devil in Silk (1956) as Thomas Ritter
The Golden Bridge (1956) as Balder
Ohne Dich wird es Nacht [de] (1956) as Dr. Robert Kessler
And God Created Woman (1956) as Eric Carradine
The House of Intrigue (Italian: Londra chiama polo Nord) (1956) as Colonel Bernes
Michael Strogoff (1956) as Michel Strogoff
Bitter Victory (1957) as Major Brand
An Eye for an Eye [fr] (1957) as Dr. Walter
Les Espions (1957) as Alex
The Enemy Below (1957) as Von Stolberg
Tamango (1958) as Captain John Reinker
This Happy Feeling (1958) as Preston Mitchell
Me and the Colonel (1958) as Colonel Prokoszny
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) as Capt. Lin Nan
Der Schinderhannes (1958) as Johann 'Schinderhannes' Bückler
Le vent se lève [fr] (1959) as Eric Muller
Ferry to Hong Kong (1959) as Mark Bertram Conrad
The Blue Angel (1959) as Professor Immanuel Rath
Magnificent Sinner (1959) as Czar Alexander II
I Aim at the Stars (1960) as Wernher von Braun
Brainwashed (1960) as Werner von Basil
Gustav Adolfs Page [de] (1960) as King Gustav Adolf
Bankraub in der Rue Latour (1961) as Cliff MacHardy
Girl in a Suitcase (1961) Rich Guy in Boat. Uncredited
Le Triomphe de Michel Strogoff [fr] (1961) as Michel Strogoff
Disorder (1962) as Carlo's Father
The Longest Day (1962) as General Günther Blumentritt
I Don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra (1962) as Mr. Edmond
Die Dreigroschenoper [de] (1963) as Captain Macheath
Miracle of the White Stallions (1963) as Gen. Tellheim
Of Love and Desire (1963) as Paul Beckmann
Nutty, Naughty Chateau (1963) as Hugo Falsen
Hide and Seek (1964) as Hubert Marek
Encounter in Salzburg (1964) as Hans Wilke, General Director
Les Parias de la gloire (1964) as Ludwig Goetz
Psyche 59 (1964) as Eric Crawford
DM-Killer [de] (1965) as Kurt Lehnert
Lord Jim (1965) as Cornelius
Who Wants to Sleep? (1965) as Stefan von Cramer
Zwei Girls vom Roten Stern [de] (1966) as Dave O'Connor
Congress of Love [de] (1966) as Czar Alexander I
Target for Killing (1966) as Gérard van Looch / Giant
The Gardener of Argenteuil (1966) as The Baron
Dirty Heroes (1967) as General Edwin von Keist
The Karate Killers (1967) as Carl von Kessen
Der Lügner und die Nonne [de] (1967) as The cardinal
OSS 117 – Double Agent (1968) as Il Maggiore – il capo dei gangster
The Doctor of St. Pauli (1968) as Dr. Jan Diffring
Babeck [de] (1968, TV miniseries) as Babeck
The Assassination Bureau (1969) as Gen. von Pinck
Battle of the Commandos (1969) as Gen. von Reilow
On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight (1969) as Hannes Teversen
Battle of Britain (1969) as Baron von Richter
Battle of Neretva (1969) as Lohring
Slap in the Face (1970) as Thomas Nathan Terbanks
Hotel by the Hour (1970) as Kommissar Canisius
The Invincible Six (1970) as Baron
Hello-Goodbye (1970) as Baron De Choisis
The Priest of St. Pauli (1970) as Konrad Johannsen
Cannabis (1970) as Henri Emery
The Mephisto Waltz (1971) as Duncan Mowbray Ely
Käpt’n Rauhbein aus St. Pauli [de] (1971) as Captain Markus Jolly
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) as the German Consul to Switzerland
Fieras sin jaula (1971) as Ronald Marvelling
Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! [fr] (1971) as Grueningen
Wie bitte werde ich ein Held? [de] (1972) as Russian general
Der Kommissar (TV) (1972-1973) as Harald Bergmann / Dr. Hochstätter
The Vault of Horror (1973) as Sebastian (segment 3 "This Trick'll Kill You")
Profession: Adventurers (1973) as Alvarez
Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974) as General Von Grotjahn
Fall of Eagles (TV, 1974) as Otto von Bismarck
Radiografia di una Svastika (1974)
Cagliostro (1975) as Cardinal Braschi
Derrick – Season 2, episode 4: "Madeira" (1975) as Paul Bubach
Der zweite Frühling [de] (1975) as Fox
Povero Cristo (1976) as Man Engaging Giorgio
Auch Mimosen wollen blühen [de] (1976) as Josef Popov
Ab morgen sind wir reich und ehrlich [de] (1976) as Senator Shelton
The Twist (1976) as Le bijoutier / Jeweller
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) as Karl Stromberg
Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo (1978) as Prince
Breakthrough (1979) as Gen. Hofmann
Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident (1979) (also known as Teheran Incident and Cruise Missile) as Baron Marchant
Goldengirl (1979) as Dr. Serafin
La lunga strada senza polvere (1979) as Cameo (uncredited)
La Gueule de l'autre (1979) as Wilfrid
Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen [de] (1979) as UFO Commander
The Sleep of Death (1980) as Count St. Alyre
Teheran 43 (1981) as Maître Legraine
Collin (TV film, 1981) as Hans Collin
Smiley's People (BBC TV, 1982) as General Vladimir (final film role)

RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 19th

1913: Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming (née Charteris) is born--London, England.
(She dies 12 July 1981 at age 68--Sevenhampton, Wiltshire, Swindon, England.)

Ann Fleming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Fleming
Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming died 1981.jpg

Fleming in 1957

Born Ann Charteris, 19 June 1913, Westminster, London, England
Died 12 July 1981 (aged 68), Sevenhampton, Wiltshire, England
Nationality British
Known for Hostess

Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming (née Charteris, 19 June 1913 – 12 July 1981), previously known as Lady O'Neill and Viscountess Rothermere, was a British socialite. She married firstly Lord O'Neill, secondly Lord Rothermere, and finally the writer Ian Fleming. She also had affairs with the Labour Party politicians Roy Jenkins and Hugh Gaitskell.

Life

Fleming was born to Frances Lucy Tennant (1887–1925) and Captain Guy Lawrence Charteris (1886–1967) in Westminster, London on 19 June 1913. She was the eldest daughter and her grandfather was Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss. She learnt to value conversation and friendship from her grandmother, Mary Constance Charteris, Countess of Wemyss,[1] who had her own hedonistic past, having been one of The Souls.

She was educated by governesses after an unsuccessful term at Cheltenham Ladies' College. She had a good understanding of literature but her future was to be a debutante and she quickly married Lord O'Neill who was both an aristocrat and a financier in 1932. She had two children before beginning an affair with the influential Esmond Cecil Harmsworth in 1936.

Harmsworth was the heir to Lord Rothermere, who owned the Daily Mail. Her husband went to war and Ann appeared with Harmsworth as well as having an affair with Ian Fleming, then a stockbroker, who became an assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence. In 1940, Harmsworth became Lord Rothermere. Her husband was killed in action in 1944 and she married Lord Rothermere in 1945.

The couple entertained and their social circle included the painter Lucian Freud (who painted her portrait), the choreographer Frederick Ashton and the artist Francis Bacon. Meanwhile, Ian Fleming left the navy and became a journalist with The Sunday Times. He had built Goldeneye on land in Jamaica and he had demanded three-month vacations from his employer to enjoy his holiday home. The two spent three months of every year together in Jamaica;[4] her new husband thought she was in Jamaica to visit Noël Coward.

In 1951 she was divorced by Lord Rothermere, and the following year she married Fleming. They had one child, Caspar. Ann was pregnant with her son when they married; he was born on 12 August 1952. Anxiety over his forthcoming marriage is said to be the reason that Ian Fleming wrote the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale. Ann had a £100,000 divorce settlement and Fleming sought additional sources of revenue to add to his salary from The Sunday Times. The book and its sequels were immediate successes.

The Flemings bought a house in London, where they entertained. They later rebuilt Warneford Place at Sevenhampton, near Swindon, renaming it Sevenhampton Place and moving there in 1963. Her husband was not keen on the socialising, but their houses attracted Evelyn Waugh, Cyril Connolly and Peter Quennell, and she had affairs with Hugh Gaitskell and Roy Jenkins.

Her son Caspar died in London in October 1975 from an overdose of narcotics. Ann Fleming died at Sevenhampton Place on 12 July 1981. Both were buried alongside Ian at the church of St James in Sevenhampton.

1921: Louis Jourdan is born--Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.
(He dies 14 February 2015 at age 93--Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California.)

Louis Jourdan obituary

French film actor who found stardom with Three Coins in the
Fountain and Gigi, and whose later roles included a villain in the
James Bond movie Octopussy
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/15/louis-jourdan
Michael Freedland | Sun 15 Feb 2015 18.15 EST

Louis Jourdan and Leslie Caron in Gigi, 1958. Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive

For audiences in the 1940s and 50s, Louis Jourdan’s incredible good looks and mellifluous Gallic purr seemed to sum up everything that was sexy and enticing about Frenchmen. As a result, he became the most sought-after French actor since Charles Boyer. Though perhaps this hampered him, stymying opportunities to extend his dramatic range, any actor who was constantly in demand by both French studios and Hollywood producers had a lot to be grateful for.

When Jourdan, who has died aged 93, played the consummate bon vivant in Vincente Minnelli’s Gigi (1958), he became an international celebrity. The film, which co-starred Maurice Chevalier and Leslie Caron, won nine Oscars, including best picture. Though the best-known of its Lerner and Loewe numbers was Chevalier’s Thank Heaven for Little Girls, the title song went to Jourdan. He later widened the breadth of his work, and in old age was still one of the most handsome men on the screen, even if the films themselves seldom amounted to much.
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He was born in Marseille, one of the three sons of Henri Gendre, a hotelier who organised the Cannes film festival after the second world war, and Yvonne, from whose maiden name, Jourdan, Louis took his stage name. The family followed Henri’s work, which accounted for the ease with which he was later able to perform overseas. He was educated in France, Turkey and Britain, where he learned to speak perfect English with an accent that he was clever enough to realise he should keep superbly French.

Jourdan, who knew from early on that he was going to be an actor, studied under René Simon in Paris. Admired for his dramatic talent and a certain polish that no one could readily explain, he was cast in his film debut, Le Corsaire (1939), which starred Boyer, though the outbreak of the second world war prevented its completion. He went on to appear in L’Arlésienne (1942) before his career was interrupted by the Nazi occupation of France.

His father was arrested by the Gestapo, and Louis and his two brothers were active members of the resistance, whose work for the underground meant that he had to stay away from the studios. But it also resulted in his becoming a favourite of the resurgent French postwar film industry. At a time when many had worked on films that had served to help Marshal Pétain’s propaganda campaign – and stars such as Chevalier were being accused of collaboration – it was easy to promote a star who had actively worked against the Nazis.

In 1946, Jourdan married Berthe Frédérique (known as Quique) and went to Los Angeles, having been persuaded by the movie mogul David O Selznick that he would be able to make more of himself in Hollywood than he ever could in Paris. He shone in his first American film, The Paradine Case (1947), directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Gregory Peck. This was followed by Max Ophüls’s masterly Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), based on the story by Stefan Zweig. Jourdan played the debonair, womanising pianist with whom Joan Fontaine falls hopelessly and tragically in love. He invested the performance with a vulnerability that saved his character from being simply caddish.

In Minnelli’s 1949 film of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, he starred as the lover of the adulterous anti-heroine, played by Jennifer Jones. He returned to France for Rue de l’Estrapade (1953) and La Mariée Est Trop Belle (The Bride Is Too Beautiful, released with the title Her Bridal Night, 1956), the latter with Brigitte Bardot, while in Italy he appeared in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), its title referring to the Trevi fountain in Rome. His image as the light romantic lead was burnished in that film, and his status as such was sealed by Gigi, which made him the No 1 pin-up of sophisticated American women.

He had a similar role in Can-Can (1960), which starred Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine and Chevalier. There followed continental roles in Hollywood productions: as a playboy in The VIPs (1963) and a fashion designer in Made in Paris (1966).

He had made his Broadway debut, playing a repressed gay man embarking on marriage, in an adaptation of André Gide’s The Immoralist, in 1954. The production co-starred Geraldine Page and James Dean, before Dean’s movie breakthrough. The following year, Jourdan returned to the New York stage in Tonight in Samarkand. He soon let it be known that he wanted more serious film roles and was not getting enough of them. In 1961 he took the lead in Claude Autant-Lara’s Le Comte de Monte Cristo and, in 1975, he appeared in a British TV movie production of Alexandre Dumas’s novel, this time playing De Villefort to Richard Chamberlain’s Count. Two years later, he was D’Artagnan in The Man in the Iron Mask on TV, again opposite Chamberlain.

He played Dracula in a 1977 BBC TV adaptation and a “charming” villain, Kamal Khan, in the James Bond adventure Octopussy (1983), but few of his later roles showed the range of his talents. Certainly, Swamp Thing (1982) and The Return of Swamp Thing (1989) were not the sort of movies that the Gigi star would want to be remembered for. In the mid-80s he returned to Gigi, this time in Chevalier’s role, for a touring show; he replied to the criticism that he lip-synched songs by saying: “If I sang them live, the fragile little voice I have would go.”

Jourdan’s final film appearance came as a suave villain in Peter Yates’s caper about a rare bottle of wine, Year of the Comet (1992). In 2010 he was appointed to the Légion d’Honneur.

His wife died last year. Their son, Louis Henry, died in 1981 from a drug overdose. He is survived by a nephew and a niece.

• Louis Jourdan (Louis Robert Gendre), actor, born 19 June 1921; died 14 February 2015
• This article was amended on 16 February 2015. Louis Jourdan was born in June 1921 rather than 1919, and so died at the age of 93.

1952: Virginia Hey is born--Coogee, New South Wales, Australia.
1963: From Russia With Love films the Orient Express train fight.
1967: Roger Ebert reviews You Only Live Twice.

You Only Live Twice
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/you-only-live-twice-1967
| Roger Ebert June 19, 1967 |

Remember those neat gadgets M was always dreaming up for James Bond? Their beauty was that they were well designed and terribly complicated, like Swiss astronomical watches, and they had a great many functions. Probably the best two were the briefcase in "From Russia with Love" and that custom car in "Goldfinger."

The great thing about these gadgets was that after M explained them to 007, they just sat around for a long time looking like briefcases and cars. Their tricks were spread through the film, and always came as a surprise when they finally were sprung. Suspense! Timing! Humor! As when the Chinese spy ejected himself from the driver's seat.

The gadgets were symptomatic of what made the first three Bond films such perfect representatives of the sex-and-sadism spy genre. It was as if the director had gone over every line of the script with a design engineer at his elbow and lovingly worked all the functions of the gadgetry into all the folds of the plot so that everything held together in a subtle way.

A great deal of money was spent on the fifth Bond epic in an attempt to duplicate this mystique, but in "You Only Live Twice" the formula fails to work its magic. Like its predecessor "Thunderball," another below-par entry, this one is top-heavy with gadgets but weak on plotting and getting everything to work at the same time.

For example, we're given another of those delicious scenes we've grown to love, in which Bond has a new gadget explained, to him. This time it's a lightweight one-man helicopter that can fire machine-gun bullets, missiles, rockets and flames. So far, so good. But instead of working the helicopter into the plot, the film immediately demonstrates all these goodies.

Bond takes off. Four helicopters attack him, naturally. He shoots one down with the machine-gun, one with the rockets, one with the missiles, and he incinerates the fourth with his flame-thrower. Just like that.

Same goes for the other stock ingredients. The girls (breathtaking Japanese lovelies) are beautiful and sexy as always, but they don't really emerge as characters the way Pussy Galore did. They're just there, decorating the place, running around in bikinis and, worst of all, not presenting much of a threat to old 007 most of the time.

Connery labors mightily. There is still the same Bond grin, still the cool humor under fire, still the slight element of satire. But when he puts on his cute little helmet and is strapped into his helicopter, somehow the whole illusion falls apart and what we're left with is a million-dollar playpen in which everything works but nothing does anything.

1973: Bond comic strip The Girl Machine begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 3 December 1973. 2257–2407) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://www.popoptiq.com/the-girl-machine/

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Danish 1975 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-34-1975/

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/titan_tgm.php3?s=comics&id=02182
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1988: Teru Shimada dies at age 83--Encino, California. (Born 17 November 1905--Mito, Japan.)

Teru Shimada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teru_Shimada

Born Akira Shimada, November 17, 1905 - Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Died June 19, 1988 (aged 82) - Encino, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Actor, Years active 1932–1975

Teru Shimada (November 17, 1905 – June 19, 1988) was a Japanese American actor who was cast most famously as Mr. Osato, a SPECTRE agent in the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice. His film career began in 1932 with the Night Club Lady. He appeared with Peter Lorre in the 1939 classic Mr. Moto's Last Warning. Another notable role was opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1949 film, Tokyo Joe. He had an uncredited role in 20th Century Fox's 1966 film Batman as a Japanese Delegate and as Mr. Kurawa in Cary Grant's final film, Walk, Don't Run. He also appeared in an episode (titled "And Five of Us are Left") of the 1960s American television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea in 1965. That year he also made a guest appearance on Perry Mason as Dr. Maseo Tachikawa in "The Case of the Baffling Bug" and as Ito Kumagi in the 1962 episode "The Case of the Capricious Corpse". In 1970, he had had a leading role in an episode of Hawaii Five-O (titled "The Reunion"). He later retired in the mid-1970s following appearances in Barnaby Jones and The Six Million Dollar Man and died in Encino, Los Angeles, California in 1988.

During World War II, Shimada was interned at the Poston War Relocation Center. He is buried in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

Filmography
The Washington Masquerade (1932) - Japanese Dignitary (uncredited)
The Night Club Lady (1932) - Ito Mura (uncredited)
Gabriel Over the White House (1933) - Japanese Admiral at Debt Conference (uncredited)
Midnight Club (1953) - Nishi (uncredited)
Four Frightened People (1934) - Native
Murder at the Vanities (1934) - Koto (uncredited)
Charlie Chan's Courage (1934) - Jiu Jitsu Man
Imitation of Life (1934) - Japanese Customer in Pancake Shop (uncredited)
Bordertown (1935) - Law School Graduate (uncredited)
Let 'em Have It (1935) - Chinese Houseboy (uncredited)
Public Hero#1 (1935) - Sam - Sonny's Japanese Houseboy (uncredited)
Oil for the Lamps of China (1935) - Tea House Owner (uncredited)
The Affair of Susan (1935) - Spieler (uncredited)
Revolt of the Zombies (1936) - Buna
White Legion (1936) - Dr. Nogi
Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939) - Fake Mr. Moto (uncredited)
They Met in Bombay (1941) - Japanese Colonel (uncredited)
Dragon Seed (1944) - Villager (uncredited)
Tokyo Joe (1949) - Ito
Emergency Wedding (1950) - Ho (uncredited)
The War of the Worlds (1953) - Japanese Diplomat (uncredited)
The Snow Creature (1954) - Subra
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954) - Japanese Father (uncredited)
House of Bamboo (1955) - Nagaya (uncredited)
Navy Wife (1956) - Mayor Yoshida
Battle Hymn (1957) - Korean Official
The Delicate Delinquent (1957) - Togo's Japanese Interpreter (uncredited)
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) - Japanese Submarine Commander (uncredited)
The Geisha Boy (1958) - Osakawa, Japanese Detective (uncredited)
Tokyo After Dark (1959) - Sen-Sei
Battle of the Coral Sea (1959) - Comm. Mori
The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1961) - Maj. Samada
The Horizontal Lieutenant (1962) - Master of Ceremonies at Show (uncredited)
The Prize (1963) - Japanese Correspondent (uncredited)
King Rat (1965) - The Japanese General
One Spy Too Many (1966) - President Sing-Mok
Walk Don't Run (1966) - Mr. Kurawa
Batman (1966) - Japanese Delegate (uncredited)
You Only Live Twice (1967) - Mr. Osato
The Sweet and the Bitter (1967) - Tom Hirata
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk (1967) - Mr. Pan
Which Way to the Front? (1970) - Japanese Naval Officer (uncredited)

2019: National Martini Day in the US. And at the Bombay Club.

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RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 20th

1915: Terence Young is born--Shanghai, China. (He dies 7 September 1994 at age 79--Cannes, France.)

Obituary: Terence Young
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-terence-young-1449081.html
David Shipman | Friday 16 September 1994 00:02

Terence Young, film director, producer, screenwriter; born Shanghai 20 June 1915; married (one son, two daughters); died Cannes 7 September 1994.

THE British cinema - as opposed to the British film industry - first began to consider its responsibilities during the Second World War. The quantity and vitality of British movies produced between 1945 and 1950 is astonishing, with the serious variety attracting large audiences as never before. Between them, the benevolent flour- milling mogul Arthur Rank and the creative Hungarian paterfamilias Alexander Korda encouraged new talents, none of whom was more promising than Terence Young.

Young's first two films as director, for Rank, came out early in 1948, proving him anxious to work well outside the British mainstream. One Hour With You, with a typically playful script by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon, imagined the misfortunes of Patricia Roc wooed by the tenor Nino Martini while stranded in Italy. Corridor of Mirrors gave even more meaning to the words bizarre, baroque - as Eric Portman, at his most magniloquent, brooded over a Renaissance painting in his dark mansion, convinced that he and his mistress, Edana Romney, are reincarnations of the lovers in it.

Earlier Young had worked as screenwriter on some interesting films with the director Brian Desmond Hurst: On the Night of the Fire (1939), a fugitive-from-justice tale, heavily influenced by Marcel Carne, with Ralph Richardson and Diana Wynyard; Dangerous Moonlight (1941), a wartime love affair between a Polish airman, Anton Walbrook, and an American journalist, Sally Gray, with the 'Warsaw Concerto' thrown in as a bonus; Hungry Hill (1946), Daphne du Maurier's chronicle of an Irish family with Margaret Lockwood as its matriarch; and Theirs is the Glory (1946), a semi-documentary account of the failure of the Battle of Arnhem. During service with the Armoured Guards Division Young was given leave to work with Clive Brook on the screenplay for On Approval (1944), based on Frederick Lonsdale's comedy and as directed by Brook, with himself, Beatrice Lillie, Googie Withers and Roland Culver, a happy version of a filmed play.

Young's first job with Rank was to hack a screenplay out of Mary Webb's novel Precious Bane, which he was scheduled to direct with Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons; but Rank got cold feet at the last minute and transferred him to a comedy with Granger, Woman Hater, for which he brought Edwige Feuillere across from France. Young's other film that year, They Were Not Divided, was a project dear to his heart, as it followed two Welsh Guardsmen, Edward Underdown and the American Ralph Clanton, from square- bashing to D-Day and beyond.

In 1954 he directed That Lady, the story of the romance of the one-eyed Princess of Eboli which scandalised the court of Philip II; he blamed its failure on the fact that that he had asked for Laurence Olivier and Ava Gardner, but had been given Gilbert Roland and Olivia de Havillland. With Zoltan Korda he co-directed Storm Over the Nile (1955), with Laurence Harvey and Anthony Steel, a remake of 1939 The Four Feathers, with footage from that stretched out for CinemaScope.

Young had already experienced his most important career move. Two American producers, Irving Allen and Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, taking advantage of US tax concessions for working abroad, came to Britain with Alan Ladd to make The Red Beret (1953), in which Ladd was an American officer who does a T. E. Lawrence-like stint in the ranks of the British regiment. They had admired Young's work on his war movies and though he won no kudos for this one it was popular. He stayed with their company, Warwick, establishing himself as a director of transatlantic action movies.

He broke away for another personal project, Serious Charge (1959), in which a vengeful teddy boy, Andrew Ray, accuses a vicar, Anthony Quayle, of sexual assault. He then accepted the challenge of bringing four of Roland Petit's ballets to the wide screen in Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre (1960), or Black Tights. Maurice Chevalier introduced these diverse pleasures, including Moira Shearer and Petit in Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyd Charisse as a merry widow and Zizi Jeanmaire with him in Carmen.

Its success was not unqualified, and Young went on to co-direct, with Ferdinando Baldi, Orazi E Curiazi (1961), with Alan Ladd decidedly ill-at-ease as Horatio at the bridge. Cut, dubbed and retitled Duel of Champions, it got a few bookings some years later.

By that time Young's career had soared. Broccoli had teamed up with Harry Saltzman to film Dr No (1963), one of Ian Fleming's thrillers about a British secret service agent, James Bond. Saltzman, the American backer of such films as Look Back in Anger, had been looking for something more evidently popular. Apart from the two of them nobody believed in it, including the distributor, United Artists, who imposed budget restrictions; half a dozen actors turned down the role before it was accepted by the little-known and unlikely Sean Connery. (Young had previously directed Connery in 1957 in a small role in Action of the Tiger.) The notices were mediocre and Fleming was privately contemptuous, but the film went on to knock the box-office for six. With an injection of humour and Connery splendidly easing himself into the role, From Russia with Love (1963) and then Thunderball (1965) proved that Young was a first-rate action director and that the public couldn't get enough of 007.

When Young abandoned Bond, it was with mixed results. The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) was an attempt by Marcel Hellman to duplicate the success of Tom Jones. But Warner Bros then put Young in charge of an adaptation of a long-running play, Wait Until Dark (1967), with Audrey Hepburn menaced by thugs, including a scarey Alan Arkin - and that is surely one of the best thrillers of the decade.

Young followed it with an Italian version of Conrad, L'Avventurio or The Rover (1967), which has been little seen despite the presence of Rita Hayworth and Anthony Quinn, and Mayerling (1968) with James Mason and Ava Gardner under-used as Franz Joseph and Elisabeth and Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve as the lovers. Several other co-productions with either France or Italy included The Valachi Papers (1972), a Mafia tale with Charles Bronson.

Young's long-delayed first Hollywood film, The Klansman (1974), with Richard Burton and Lee Marvin, was scathingly received - one reason why Paramount pulled the plug on The Jackpot, also with Burton, during production. But that company invited Young back for Bloodline (1979), based on a Sidney Sheldon bestseller which managed to combine a plot about company greed with one about the making of porn movies. Audrey Hepburn and James Mason headed the cast, and after the dreadful notices, she commented that she had made it both because the locations didn't take her far from her family and because she liked the director.

Young attracted Olivier to Inchon (1980) and The Jigsaw Man (1983), in which he respectively played General MacArthur and an admiral involved with Michael Caine, a former head of MI6 who had defected. The former, financed by the Rev Sun Myung Moon to an estimated dollars 100m, took peanuts in the US and has never been seen in Britain; the second ran into financial difficulties during filming and went direct to video.

This is a sad ending to an extraordinary career. No one would class Young with his contemporaries David Lean and Carol Reed, but he was one among others embraced by Hollywood: Michael Anderson, J. Lee Thompson, Ronald Neame, Ken Annakin and Lewis Gilbert. They gave Hollywood some excellent films and the American film industry liked them because they thought in commercial terms.

1961: On the advice of Arthur Krim, Broccoli and Saltzman give their Bond movie pitch to David Picker in New York. They get a six-picture deal with United Artists, the first is bankrolled for $1 million.
(Compare to Columbia's offer of $400,000.)
1985: A View to a Kill released in Hong Kong.
1992: James Bond Jr's action video game released by Eurocom for Super Nintendo. The original Nintendo Entertainment System variant had released in September 1991. The only Bond game published by T·HQ.

2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond comic The Body #6.

2018: A screen-used brooch worn by Lois Maxwell as Moneypenny goes to auction at Surrey.

Screen-used Moneypenny brooch on auction
14 June, 2018
http://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/news/screen-used-moneypenny-brooch-auction

2019: The Guardian celebrates 10 "best smells".

Ten of the best smells
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/21/saturdayreviewsfeatres.guardianreview32
Fri 20 Jun 2008 19.09 EDT

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Nothing smells nicer than Paradise. As Satan approaches Eden, he gets a whiff of "balmy spoils". He is compared to a sailor off the coast of Mozambique, who catches at "Sabean odours from the spicy shore / Of Araby the blest". And for a little while, the fiend pauses and sniffs the beneficial air.

"The Odour" by George Herbert

The conceit of "The Odour" is that religious consolation is like a pomander. The poet hankers for the "spiciness" of holy perfume. Religious devotion is "as Amber-greese" (a richly smelling secretion of the sperm whale), which "leaves a rich scent / Unto the taster".

Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett

In beautiful Georgian Bath, one of the fashionable doctors assures Smollett's protagonist, Matthew Bramble, of the benefits of "the stercoraceous flavour" of the whiff in the Pump-room and describes with delight his "uncommon satisfaction from hanging over the stale contents of a close-stool, while his servant stirred it about under his nose".

The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser

In the "Mutabilitie Cantos" of this great poem we enter the Temple of Venus, which swims with perfume, with frankincense, and "odours rising from the altar's flame . . . And all the ground was strewed with flowers as fresh as May." No wonder you feel giddy with "joy and amorous desire".

Justine by Lawrence Durrell

The colours and smells of Alexandria (often combined) produce a kind of sensual rapture in the narrator. "Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet-smelling brick-dust and the odour of hot pavements slaked with water . . . The smell of the sweat-lathered Berberinis ... " You may not have smelled this yourself, but you think that he has.

Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

This could also compete as one of the 10 best opening sentences of a novel. "The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three o'clock in the morning." In 1953, British readers of Fleming's first Bond novel had not escaped austerity and had no idea what a casino smelt like. But the reek of sin and glamour comes right off the page.

A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust

It was Proust who most memorably recorded how a smell can detonate a hidden memory. We all remember the taste of that madeleine, but its slight perfume matters just as much. "The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls," Proust wrote, "bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory."

Flush by Virginia Woolf

A story about Elizabeth Barrett Browning told from the point of view of her dog: "He smelt the swooning smells that lie in the gutters; the bitter smells that corrode iron railings; the fuming, heady smells that rise from basements ... smells that lay far beyond the range of the human nose."

"The Thought Fox" by Ted Hughes

Here smell stands for inspiration, something wild and undeniable. "With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox / It enters the dark hole of the head." When this poem was first published, few readers knew what this smell was. Nowadays, any city resident with a garden will have caught this "sharp hot stink".

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

A man with super-sensitive smell who grows up in 18th-century Paris, a super-smelly city: "The stairwells stank of mouldering wood and rat droppings, the kitchens of spoiled cabbage and mutton fat; the unaired parlours stank of stale dust, the bedrooms of greasy sheets . . . and the pungently sweet aroma of chamber-pots." No wonder he becomes a perfume-maker.

RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 21st

1938: Don Black, future OBE, is born--London, England.
1962: The first recording of The James Bond Theme--Cine-Tele Sound (CTS) Studios, Kensington Gardens Square, London's Baywater District.

1965: Thunderball films Bond chased by Lippe and Fiona Volpe. Silverstone Racetrack, Northamptonshire, England
1980: Casino Royale re-released in Finland.
1985: A View to a Kill released in Ireland.
2005: The American Film Institute declares the 22nd greatest film quote of all time: "Bond. James Bond."
Plus the 90th: "A martini. Shaken, not stirred" .

AFI'S 100 GREATEST MOVIE QUOTES OF ALL TIME
afi.com/100years/quotes.aspx

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes is a list of the 100 top film quotes of all time.

A jury of over 1,500 leaders from the creative community, including film artists, critics and historians. Selection criteria included choosing quotes from American films which circulate through popular culture, become part of the national lexicon and evoke the memory of a treasured film, thus ensuring and enlivening its historical legacy.

The television special AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes originally aired on CBS on June 21, 2005.

1 "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.."
Rhett Butler Clark Gable Gone with the Wind 1939
2 "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
Vito Corleone Marlon Brando The Godfather 1972
3 "You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am."
Terry Malloy Marlon Brando On the Waterfront 1954
4 "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
Dorothy Gale Judy Garland The Wizard of Oz 1939
5 "Here's looking at you, kid."
Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942

6 "Go ahead, make my day."
Harry Callahan Clint Eastwood Sudden Impact 1983
7 "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
Norma Desmond Gloria Swanson Sunset Boulevard 1950
8 "May the Force be with you."
Han Solo Harrison Ford Star Wars 1977
9 "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."
Margo Channing Bette Davis All About Eve 1950
10 "You talkin' to me?"
Travis Bickle Robert De Niro Taxi Driver 1976

11 "What we've got here is failure to communicate."
Captain Strother Martin Cool Hand Luke 1967
12 "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore Robert Duvall Apocalypse Now 1979
13 "Love means never having to say you're sorry."
Oliver Barrett IV Ryan O'Neal Love Story 1970
14 "The stuff that dreams are made of."
Sam Spade Humphrey Bogart The Maltese Falcon 1941
15 "E.T. phone home."
E.T. Pat Welsh E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982

16 "They call me Mister Tibbs!"
Virgil Tibbs Sidney Poitier In the Heat of the Night 1967
17 "Rosebud."
Charles Foster Kane Orson Welles Citizen Kane 1941
18 "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
Arthur "Cody" Jarrett James Cagney White Heat 1949
19 "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
Howard Beale Peter Finch Network 1976
20 "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942

21 "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."
Dr. Hannibal Lecter Anthony Hopkins The Silence of the Lambs 1991
22 "Bond. James Bond."
James Bond Sean Connery Dr. No 1962[/u]
23 "There's no place like home."
Dorothy Gale Judy Garland The Wizard of Oz 1939
24 "I am big! It's the pictures that got small."
Norma Desmond Gloria Swanson Sunset Boulevard 1950
25 "Show me the money!"
Rod Tidwell Cuba Gooding Jr. Jerry Maguire 1996

26 "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?"
Lady Lou Mae West She Done Him Wrong 1933
27 "I'm walking here! I'm walking here!"
"Ratso" Rizzo Dustin Hoffman Midnight Cowboy 1969
28 "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'"
Ilsa Lund Ingrid Bergman Casablanca 1942
29 "You can't handle the truth!"
Col. Nathan R. Jessup Jack Nicholson A Few Good Men 1992
30 "I want to be alone."
Grusinskaya Greta Garbo Grand Hotel 1932

31 "After all, tomorrow is another day!"
Scarlett O'Hara Vivien Leigh Gone with the Wind 1939
32 "Round up the usual suspects."
Capt. Louis Renault Claude Rains Casablanca 1942
33 "I'll have what she's having."
Customer Estelle Reiner When Harry Met Sally... 1989
34 "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."
Marie "Slim" Browning Lauren Bacall To Have and Have Not 1944
35 "You're gonna need a bigger boat."
Martin Brody Roy Scheider Jaws 1975

36 "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
"Gold Hat" Alfonso Bedoya The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
37 "I'll be back."
The Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger The Terminator 1984
38 "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth."
Lou Gehrig Gary Cooper The Pride of the Yankees 1942
39 "If you build it, he will come."
Shoeless Joe Jackson Ray Liotta (voice) Field of Dreams 1989
40 "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
Forrest Gump Tom Hanks Forrest Gump 1994

41 "We rob banks."
Clyde Barrow Warren Beatty Bonnie and Clyde 1967
42 "Plastics."
Mr. Maguire Walter Brooke The Graduate 1967
43 "We'll always have Paris."
Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
44 "I see dead people."
Cole Sear Haley Joel Osment The Sixth Sense 1999
45 "Stella! Hey, Stella!"
Stanley Kowalski Marlon Brando A Streetcar Named Desire 1951

46 "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars."
Charlotte Vale Bette Davis Now, Voyager 1942
47 "Shane. Shane. Come back!"
Joey Starrett Brandon De Wilde Shane 1953
48 "Well, nobody's perfect."
Osgood Fielding III Joe E. Brown Some Like It Hot 1959
49 "It's alive! It's alive!"
Henry Frankenstein Colin Clive Frankenstein 1931
50 "Houston, we have a problem."
Jim Lovell Tom Hanks Apollo 13 1995

51 "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"
Harry Callahan Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry 1971
52 "You had me at 'hello.'"
Dorothy Boyd Renée Zellweger Jerry Maguire 1996
53 "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know."
Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding Groucho Marx Animal Crackers 1930
54 "There's no crying in baseball!"
Jimmy Dugan Tom Hanks A League of Their Own 1992
55 "La-dee-da, la-dee-da."
Annie Hall Diane Keaton Annie Hall 1977

56 "A boy's best friend is his mother."
Norman Bates Anthony Perkins Psycho 1960
57 "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good."
Gordon Gekko Michael Douglas Wall Street 1987
58 "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
Michael Corleone Al Pacino The Godfather Part II 1974
59 "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."
Scarlett O'Hara Vivien Leigh Gone with the Wind 1939
60 "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
Oliver Oliver Hardy Sons of the Desert 1933

61 "Say 'hello' to my little friend!"
Tony Montana Al Pacino Scarface 1983
62 "What a dump."
Rosa Moline Bette Davis Beyond the Forest 1949
63 "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?"
Benjamin Braddock Dustin Hoffman The Graduate 1967
64 "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
President Merkin Muffley Peter Sellers Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
65 "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Sherlock Holmes Basil Rathbone The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939

66 "Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape."
George Taylor Charlton Heston Planet of the Apes 1968
67 "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
Rick Blaine Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
68 "Here's Johnny!"
Jack Torrance Jack Nicholson The Shining 1980
69 "They're here!"
Carol Anne Freeling Heather O'Rourke Poltergeist 1982
70 "Is it safe?"
Dr. Christian Szell Laurence Olivier Marathon Man 1976

71 "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!"
Jakie Rabinowitz/Jack Robin Al Jolson The Jazz Singer 1927
72 "No wire hangers, ever!"
Joan Crawford Faye Dunaway Mommie Dearest 1981
73 "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?"
Cesare Enrico "Rico" Bandello Edward G. Robinson Little Caesar 1931
74 "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown."
Lawrence Walsh Joe Mantell Chinatown 1974
75 "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
Blanche DuBois Vivien Leigh A Streetcar Named Desire 1951

76 "Hasta la vista, baby."
The Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
77 "Soylent Green is people!"
Det. Robert Thorn Charlton Heston Soylent Green 1973
78 "Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
Dave Bowman Keir Dullea 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
79 Striker: "Surely you can't be serious."
Rumack: "I am serious … and don't call me Shirley."
Ted Striker and Dr. Rumack Robert Hays and Leslie Nielsen Airplane! 1980
80 "Yo, Adrian!"
Rocky Balboa Sylvester Stallone Rocky 1976

81 "Hello, gorgeous."
Fanny Brice Barbra Streisand Funny Girl 1968
82 "Toga! Toga!"
John "Bluto" Blutarsky John Belushi National Lampoon's Animal House 1978
83 "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."
Count Dracula Bela Lugosi Dracula 1931
84 "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."
Carl Denham Robert Armstrong King Kong 1933
85 "My precious."
Gollum Andy Serkis The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002

86 "Attica! Attica!"
Sonny Wortzik Al Pacino Dog Day Afternoon 1975
87 "Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!"
Julian Marsh Warner Baxter 42nd Street 1933
88 "Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go!"
Ethel Thayer Katharine Hepburn On Golden Pond 1981
89 "Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper."
Knute Rockne Pat O'Brien Knute Rockne, All American 1940
90 "A martini. Shaken, not stirred."
James Bond Sean Connery Goldfinger 1964[/u]

91 "Who's on first?"
Dexter Bud Abbott The Naughty Nineties 1945
92 "Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!"
Carl Spackler Bill Murray Caddyshack 1980
93 "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!"
Mame Dennis Rosalind Russell Auntie Mame 1958
94 "I feel the need—the need for speed!"
Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell and Lt.jg Nick "Goose"
Bradshaw Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards Top Gun 1986
95 "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."
John Keating Robin Williams Dead Poets Society 1989

96 "Snap out of it!"
Loretta Castorini Cher Moonstruck 1987
97 "My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you."
George M. Cohan James Cagney Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942
98 "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."
Johnny Castle Patrick Swayze Dirty Dancing 1987
99 "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!"
Wicked Witch of the West Margaret Hamilton The Wizard of Oz 1939
100 "I'm the King of the World!"
Jack Dawson Leonardo DiCaprio Titanic 1997

2015: BOND 24 begins Tangier filming.
2016: Dynamite publishes the hardcover collection of Vargr (Issues #1 to 6).
Plus chapter one of its follow-up: Issue #7 Eidolon. Jason Masters, artist/cover. Warren Ellis, writer.

RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 22nd

1906: Billy Wilder is born--Sucha Beskidzka, Poland. (He dies 27 March 2002--Beverly Hills, California.)

Hollywood mourns loss of icon from golden era /
6-time Oscar winner shaped careers as director
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Hollywood-mourns-loss-of-icon-from-golden-era-2859144.php
By Edward Guthmann Published 4:00 am PST, Friday, March 29, 2002

Billy Wilder, the witty, puckish director of such Hollywood classics as "Some Like It Hot" and "Sunset Boulevard," died of pneumonia Wednesday night at his Beverly Hills home. He was 95.

One of the last remaining greats of Hollywood's golden era, Wilder was a master director whose films, which also include "The Apartment," "Double Indemnity" and "Sabrina," are models of intelligence, humor and tight, economic storytelling.

Although he directed his last film, "Buddy Buddy," in 1981, Wilder continued to go to his Beverly Hills office almost daily into his 90s -- answering mail and phone calls, reading the trade papers, maintaining his extensive art collection. In recent years, he suffered from poor eyesight and cancer. In April he was hospitalized with a urinary infection.

Wilder was born in Austria in 1906, came to the United States in 1934 and quickly learned the moxie, energy and rhythms of American speech -- proving the maxim that foreigners are often the best observers of the country they adopt as their own.

"There are few filmmakers who don't crave being compared to him," wrote director Cameron Crowe in his 1999 book "Conversations with Billy Wilder." "His is a tough-minded romanticism and elegance; the lack of sentimentality has left him forever relevant as an artist."

One of the most honored of Hollywood directors, Wilder was nominated for 21 Oscars and won six, two for directing "The Lost Weekend" (1945) and "The Apartment" (1960), two for producing those films and one for writing "Sunset Boulevard." He directed the late Jack Lemmon in seven movies ("He Was My Everyman") gave signature roles to Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Boulevard," Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot" and Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity, " and directed three men to Oscars: Ray Milland ("The Lost Weekend"), William Holden ("Stalag 17") and Walter Matthau ("The Fortune Cookie").

INTERVIEWED FREUD
Originally a journalist -- he interviewed Sigmund Freud, who kicked him out of his home -- Wilder broke into filmmaking as a screenwriter in Berlin, fled Hitler in 1933 and directed his first film, "Mauvaise Graine" (Bad Seed), in Paris in 1934.

"People said Hitler was a big, loud, unpleasant joke," Wilder once said. "But at the UFA building, the MGM of Berlin, the elevator boy was suddenly in a storm trooper's uniform. I had a new Graham-Paige American car and a new apartment furnished in Bauhaus, and I sold everything for a few hundred dollars. . . . I was on the train to Paris the day after the Reichstag fire," he said in an interview years ago.

LONG CAREER AS FILMMAKER
Although he hadn't directed a film since "Buddy Buddy" in 1981 -- and chafed at a system that turned its back on aging directors -- Wilder logged one of the longest careers of any filmmaker in the first century of cinema. Best known as a writer and director of comedy, he was also adept at romance ("Sabrina"), film noir suspense ("Double Indemnity"), courtroom thriller ("Witness for the Prosecution") and social satire ("One, Two, Three").

Wilder had a shrewd, penetrating eye for human vanity and greed, and he converted that view into screenplays that often portrayed people as the helpless victims of their own worst impulses: the faded movie goddess-turned- murderess in "Sunset Boulevard," the bored wife who cons an insurance man into bumping off her husband in "Double Indemnity," the sad-sack accountant who offers his flat to philandering executives and their paramours in "The Apartment."

CO-WROTE SCRIPTS
He wrote most of his scripts with a collaborator, at first with Charles Brackett and later with I.A.L. Diamond, and said that he had turned to directing only because he grew tired of directors fouling up his scripts. At one point, filmmaker Mitchell Leisen hired a police officer to keep Wilder off the set of a film he had written.

Underneath the wily, irascible exterior was a melancholic soul who lost his father at 22 and whose mother, stepfather and grandmother all died in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Wilder overcame those tragedies with hard work, stoicism, a brilliant, trenchant wit and a happy, 52-year marriage to his second wife, Audrey.

Late in his life, Wilder longed to make "Schindler's List" as a memorial to his mother, but found that Steven Spielberg already owned the rights to the story. "We spoke about it," Wilder said in Crowe's book. "He was a gentleman, of course, and we acknowledged each other's strong desires. In the end, he could not give it up."

TRIALS OF A DIRECTOR
Directing, Wilder said, "is a very important job, because you commit yourself. . . . Unlike the director of a play, you cannot change it anymore, that's it. You choose the best of what you have, and it's in the picture.

"If a young man (says) he would like to be a director, he sees only the glory of it. He does not see the trouble, the fights, the things he has to swallow. . . . You feel like a very small, small man."

And yet, it was one measure of Wilder's genius that every attempt to reinterpret his work was disappointing. Sydney Pollack's 1995 remake of "Sabrina" was trounced by critics, and the Broadway musicals that were made from "Sunset Boulevard" and "Some Like It Hot" (renamed "Sugar" for the stage) were doomed to pale when stacked against their source.

"His movies are a worldwide language of love, intelligence and sparkling wit," Crowe said of his mentor yesterday. "To any fan of film or any student of how a great life is lived, all roads lead to Billy Wilder."

When Crowe asked Wilder whether he had advice for future filmmakers, he laughed and said:

I am not anchored there at some observatory, you know. I think that we're living in very, very important and interesting times. . . . But we're not even close to having an assured peace in this world.

"I don't know. I'm just very curious. That's the one thing that keeps me alive, is curiosity."

Wilder is survived by his wife, Audrey; his daughter, Victoria; and one grandchild.

BILLY WILDER FILMOGRAPHY
. -- AS WRITER
-- "People on Sunday," 1929
-- "Emil and the Detectives," 1931
-- "Adorable," 1933
-- "One Exciting Adventure," 1934
-- "Music in the Air," 1934
-- "Lottery Lover," 1935
-- "Champagne Waltz," 1937
-- "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife," 1938
-- "Midnight," 1939
-- "What a Life," 1939
-- "Ninotchka," 1939
-- "Rhythm of the River," 1940
-- "Arise My Love," 1940
-- "Hold Back the Dawn," 1941
-- "Ball of Fire," 1942
-- "A Song Is Born," 1948

"Casino Royale," 1967.

-- AS WRITER-DIRECTOR
-- "The Major and the Minor," 1942
-- "Five Graves to Cairo," 1943
-- "Double Indemnity," 1944
-- "The Lost Weekend," 1945
-- "The Emperor Waltz," 1948
-- "A Foreign Affair," 1948
-- "Sunset Boulevard," 1950
-- "Ace in the Hole (also known as 'The Big Carnival')," 1951
-- "Stalag 17," 1953
-- "Sabrina," 1954
-- "The Seven Year Itch," 1955
-- "The Spirit of St. Louis," 1957
-- "Love in the Afternoon," 1957
-- "Witness for the Prosecution," 1958
-- "Some Like It Hot," 1959
-- "The Apartment," 1960
-- "One, Two, Three," 1961
-- "Irma la Douce," 1963
-- "Kiss Me, Stupid," 1964
-- "The Fortune Cookie," 1966
-- "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," 1970
-- "Avanti! "1972
-- "The Front Page," 1974
-- "Fedora," 1978
-- "Buddy Buddy," 1981.
Source: Associated Press

1943: Klaus Maria Brandauer is born--Bad Aussee, Styria, Austria.
1963: The Saturday Evening Post publishes Geoffrey Bocca's article “The Spectacular Cult of Ian Fleming".

1964: Denmark re-release of Dr. No.

1971: Diamonds Are Forever films Lois Maxwell as Moneypenny as an immigration official.
1987: Warner Brothers Records releases the single "The Living Daylights" performed by the Norwegian group A-ha, their collaboration with composer John Barry.
2011: Daniel Craig at 43 weds Rachel Weisz, 41, in New York.

2018: Zurich helicopters evacuate Piz Gloria after a cable car malfunction.

NEWS IN BRIEF
Tourists airlifted from James Bond mountain
https://thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/tourists-airlifted-from-james-bond-mountain-jt5v5kpgk
June 22 2018, 12:01am, The Times

Piz Gloria, on the 2,970m summit of the Schilthorn in the Bernese Oberland,
was the setting for Blofeld’s lair in On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters

Zurich Helicopters had to airlift about 400 people off the Swiss mountain that featured in the 1969 James Bond movie On Her Majesty’s Secret Service after a cable car broke down. The tourists were on the 2,970m (9,744ft) Schilthorn, home of the Piz Gloria revolving restaurant, which was Blofeld’s lair in the George Lazenby film. A technical fault disabled a gondola below where they were, the Schilthorn AG company, which operates the cable car, said. The guests were taken in another cable car to a nearby ridge, where four helicopters ferried them down the mountain to the ski station of Mürren.
(Reuters)

2019: James Bond and the Spies of Mayfair. Michael Duncan. London.

Jun
22
James Bond and the Spies of
Mayfair
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-bond-and-the-spies-of-mayfair-tickets-60412082164
by Michael Duncan, Footprints of
London

£9 – £35

Date and Time
Sat, 22 June 2019
10:30 – 12:00 BST

Location
Marble Arch
London
W1K 7AA.
United Kingdom

Refund Policy
Refunds up to 1 day before event

Description

Join Michael as he looks at the spies of Mayfair.

For Bond fans we will explore Ian Fleming's Mayfair: where he was born, where he gambled and drank and how he got the inspiration for his greatest creation, James Bond.

But not all the spies of Mayfair are fictional. One of Britain's greatest traitors fled the country from here, a Russian spy was murdered and real spies still scheme and plot.

Reviews on Tripadvisor:

"Michael Duncan's Spies of Mayfair walk on Saturday was superb: intelligently conceived, well researched and genuinely fascinating. It's a must for all Cold War fiends Footprints of London are such a great organisation, offering something different at an excellent price. We've done two of their walks now and are looking forward to trying more."

"I loved this walk and the information provided. I have lived and worked in London all of my working life and had no idea I had walked in the footprints of some of England's most notorious spies. Highly recommended in this mixture of very busy and very quiet streets."

"This is a really fun and interesting walk. Michael is very knowledgeable, we learned a lot - not only about the spies and Mayfair, but also history and other interesting facts. I recommend it to anyone!"

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g186338-d3742632-r239630796-Footprints_of_London-London_England.html#

PRE-BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL WITH THE EXACT MEETING PLACE AT MARBLE ARCH TUBE CONFIRMED WHEN THE TICKETS ARE ORDERED.

RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 23rd

1963: Ian Fleming walks on location in Turkey during the filming of From Russia With Love.

1966: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's Octopussy and The Living Daylights, with stories "Octopussy" and "The Living Daylights".

OCTOPUSSY
AND
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS

From Jamaica, paradise of sunshine
and exotic fish, to Berlin, cold grim
city of stealth, James Bond pursues
two strangely heroic enemies of the
Secret Service. The first is a dying
major whose dwindling hoard of gold
conceals an act of treachery, and the
second an assassin whose identity
disturbs Bond's deadly aim.

These two stories, written in I96I and
I962, were among those composed by
Ian Fleming while he was writing the
incomparable series of James Bond
thrillers. The first collection of stories
appeared in 1959 as For Your Eyes
Only; a further collection which he
had planned to publish was never
completed.

1967: The New York Times crossword puzzle, 42 across. An Ian Fleming creation. Starts with "D". Four letters.

New York Times, Friday, June 23, 1967
https://www.xwordinfo.com/PS?date=6/23/1967

1969: Comic strip The Harpies ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 10 October 1968. 816-1037)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/54569

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=999

Swedish Semic Comics 1978 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3?s=comics&id=02165

Swedish Semic Comics 1989 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3?s=comics&id=02358

[img][/img]

Danish 1970 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-19-1970/

1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service wraps up production, 58 days over schedule.
2016: The Guardian asks 007 questions. Ten, actually.

Ian Fleming
007 questions: how well do you know the James Bond books? – quiz
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/23/007-how-well-do-you-know-the-james-bond-books-quiz-ian-fleming
On this day 50 years ago, Ian Fleming’s 14th and final Bond book, Octopussy and the Living Daylights, was published. How much do you know about Ian Fleming in print?

Thu 23 Jun 2016 07.00 EDT

Guns and girls ... Michael Gillette‘s Bond girl book covers, from Penguin’s James Bond centenary collection. Composite: Penguin Books

1. In the first James Bond book, Casino Royale (1953), Bond orders a martini. How does he take it?

"Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel."

"Three measures of Bombay, one of vodka, half a measure of vermouth. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add an olive."

"Three measures of vodka, one of gin, half a measure of vermouth. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of orange peel."

"Three measures of Beefeater, one of vodka, half a measure of Pimms. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large chunk of onion."

2. According to the obituary Fleming wrote for Bond in You Only Live Twice, what nationalities were Bond’s parents?

Scottish and English

English and French

Scottish and French

Scottish and Swiss

3. How many people does Bond kill across all of the books?

183

279

352

469

4. Which of these names is NOT the name of a Bond girl?

Gala Bland

Viv Michel

Domino Vitali

Mary Goodnight

5. In the Bond story "Octopussy", who or what is Octopussy?

An enchanting femme fatale

An octopus, named Pussy

A ship

A particularly odd curse word

6. In one Bond book, Fleming ends on a scene that could be construed as Bond dying, leaving the author a way out if he decided against writing more. Which book almost saw the end of 007?

Diamonds Are Forever - Fleming's fourth Bond book

From Russia, With Love - Fleming's fifth Bond book

Dr No - Fleming's sixth Bond book

Thunderball - Fleming's ninth Bond book

7. In which of the following stories does Bond's nemesis Blofeld NOT appear?

Thunderball

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

You Only Live Twice

Quantum of Solace

8. One Bond story is told from the point of view of a woman. Which one?

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

You Only Live Twice

The Hildebrand Rarity

The Spy Who Loved Me

9. Q never appears in the novels. What is the name of MI6 armourer in Fleming's stories?

Boothroyd

Bigby

Blanche

B

10. In a profile read by M in one of the stories, which Bond villain is believed to be a latent homosexual because he cannot whistle?

Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Francisco Scaramanga

Le Chiffre

Sir Hugo Drax

Answers

1. In the first James Bond book, Casino Royale (1953), Bond orders a martini. How does he take it?

"Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel."

2. According to the obituary Fleming wrote for Bond in You Only Live Twice, what nationalities were Bond’s parents?

Scottish and Swiss

3. How many people does Bond kill across all of the books?

352

4. Which of these names is NOT the name of a Bond girl?

Gala Brand

There is a Gala Brand, however, in Moonraker.
5. In the Bond story "Octopussy", who or what is Octopussy?

An octopus, named Pussy

6. In one Bond book, Fleming ends on a scene that could be construed as Bond dying, leaving the author a way out if he decided against writing more. Which book almost saw the end of 007?

From Russia, With Love - Fleming's fifth Bond book

7. In which of the following stories does Bond's nemesis Blofeld NOT appear?

Quantum of Solace

8. One Bond story is told from the point of view of a woman. Which one?

The Spy Who Loved Me

9. Q never appears in the novels. What is the name of MI6 armourer in Fleming's stories?

Boothroyd

10. In a profile read by M in one of the stories, which Bond villain is believed to be a latent homosexual because he cannot whistle?

Francisco Scaramanga

RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 24th

1939: Michael Gothard is born--Hendon, Middlesex, England.
(He dies 2 December 1992 at age 53--London, England.)

Michael Gothard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gothard

as Emile Locque in For Your Eyes Only, 1981
Born Michael Alan Gothard, 24 June 1939, London, England
Died 2 December 1992 (aged 53), Hampstead, London, England
Years active 1961–1992

Michael Alan Gothard (24 June 1939 – 2 December 1992) was an English actor, who portrayed Kai in the television series Arthur of the Britons and the mysterious villain Emile Leopold Locque in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.

Early life

Michael Gothard was born in London in 1939. As a child, he lived in both Wales and London. After leaving Haverstock School, he travelled in France for several months before returning home. He went through various jobs, including being a building labourer and a trainee reporter. He even had a brief spell as a clothes model, but he never felt comfortable doing that job. He said: "I was as stiff as a board and I couldn’t overcome my sense of the ridiculous. I was a clothes hanger, an object, not a person."

Career

He joined the New Arts Theatre as a scenery mover, and became part of an amateur film a friend was making. After landing the lead role, he was encouraged to take up the profession. He attended evening classes at an actors' workshop whilst holding down a day job. He was involved working in some of the first "Lunchtime theatre" productions in the 1960s, from pub cellars to top floor spaces off St. Martin's Lane. His first television role was in an episode of Out of the Unknown in 1966 called "The Machine Stops". He was then cast in Don Levy's film Herostratus in 1967 and Up the Junction in 1968. He then acquired a female following after taking a role as the villainous Mordaunt in the BBC's adaptation of Twenty Years After (Further Adventures of the Musketeers).

His performance as the nightclubbing killer Keith in Scream and Scream Again, directed by Gordon Hessler, was a break-out role for him, giving him exposure and leading to other, more prominent parts. In the film, Keith makes one of the most memorable escapes from the police ever seen. The film also starred Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Executive producer Louis M. Heyward said of Gothard's performance: "I felt that Michael Gothard was going to be the biggest thing that ever happened. He had that insane look and that drive, and he was wonderful. Here is a kid who really threw himself into the picture wholeheartedly. Do you remember the scene where he appears to be walking up the cliff? That's a stunt that, as an actor, I would not have agreed to; I’d say, 'Hey, get a double or get a dummy. I ain't either one.' But the kid agreed to do it, without a double—he was that driven. He had a lot of class and a lot of style. Gordon (Hessler) came up with the idea of using an overhead cable to give that illusion of his walking up the cliff."

He appeared in Ken Russell's 1971 horror film, The Devils, in which Gothard had a stand-out role as a fanatic witch-hunter and exorcist who defiles Vanessa Redgrave and tortures Oliver Reed. His performance as a young disillusioned hippie in Barbet Schroeder's La Vallée (1972) contrasted with the rest of his career. He also played a fictionalised version of the 17th century assassin John Felton in Richard Lester's 1973 film of The Three Musketeers and its 1974 sequel, The Four Musketeers.

He had a regular role as Kai opposite Oliver Tobias's King Arthur on the aforementioned Arthur of the Britons during the early 1970s. He became known to a wider cinema audience for his menacing turn as the villainous (and non-speaking) Belgian henchman, Emile Leopold Locque, in the 1981 James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only. Gothard was actually the one who suggested Locque's signature octagonal glasses in an effort to make the character more menacing. His later appearances included supporting roles in Tobe Hooper's 1985 science-fiction horror extravaganza, Lifeforce, and as George Lusk in the 1988 TV movie, Jack the Ripper, with Michael Caine. He appeared with Dean Stockwell and Shirley Knight in a Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (a.k.a. Fox Mystery Theatre) episode, The Sweet Scent of Death.[4] His last few roles were in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery in 1992, where he briefly acted opposite Marlon Brando. It was directed by his For Your Eyes Only director John Glen, but was a box office failure.

Glen had actually cast Gothard in the role beneath Brando with the intention of moving Gothard into the role of Tomás de Torquemada, Brando's character, in case Brando did not show up for filming. Brando did indeed miss the first day of filming, and Gothard took over this role for the day's shooting. However, Tom Selleck told the director that without Brando, he would quit the film. Word apparently got out, for Brando was on the set the next day, and assumed the role of Torquemada, with Glen reshooting the scene. Glen described Gothard as "a very good" and "captivating" actor, as well as a friend.

His final role was in David Wickes's Frankenstein, starring Patrick Bergin and Randy Quaid.

Death

Gothard, who struggled with depression for much of his life, committed suicide by hanging on 2 December 1992. He was fifty-three years old.[7][8]

Filmography
Herostratus (1967) as Max
Up the Junction (1968) as Terry
Michael Kohlhaas-Der Rebell (1969) as John
Scream and Scream Again (1970) as Keith
The Last Valley (1971) as Hansen
The Devils (1971) as Father Barre
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971) as Albie
La Vallée (1972) as Olivier
The Three Musketeers (1973) as John Felton
The Four Musketeers (1974) as John Felton
King Arthur, the Young Warlord (1975) as Kai
Warlords of Atlantis (1978) as Atmir
For Your Eyes Only (1981) as Emile Leopold Locque
Lifeforce (1985) as Dr Bukovsky
Going Undercover (1988) (aka Yellow Pages) as Strett
Gioco al massacro (1989) as Zabo
Destroying Angel (1990) as "the Hitman"
The Serpent of Death (1990) as Xaros
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) as Inquisitor's Spy
Frankenstein (1992) as Boatswain (final film role)

Television
Out of the Unknown (1966) as Kuno
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1966) as Grady, in "The Excavation"
The Further Adventures of the Three Musketeers (1967) as Mordaunt
Armchair Theatre (1969) as Brian, in "The Story-Teller"
Fraud Squad (1969) as Jacky Joyce, in "Run For Your Money"
Department S (1969) as Weber, in "Les Fleurs du Mal"
Randall and Hopkirk (1970) as Perrin, in "When the Spirit Moves You"
Paul Temple (1970) as Ivan, in "Games People Play"
Menace (1970) as Pip, in "Nine Bean Rows"
Arthur of the Britons (1972–1973) as Kai
Warrior Queen (1978) as Volthan
The Professionals (1979) as Kodai, in "Stopover"
A Tale of Two Cities (1980) (Michael E. Briant version) as Gaspard
Shoestring (1981) as Harry, in "The Mayfly Dance"
ITV Playhouse (1981) as Dieter, in "The Perfect House"
Ivanhoe (1982) as Athelstane
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (1984) as Terry Marvin, in "The Sweet Scent of Death"
Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1984) as Karl Portillo, in "Our Man in Tegernsee"
Lytton's Diary (1985) as Jake Cutler, in "Daddy's Girls"
Minder (1985) as Sergei, in "From Fulham, With Love"
Jack the Ripper (1988) as George Lusk
Capital City (1989) as Stefan in "Twelve Degrees Capricorn"

1961: Bond comic strip Risico ends its run in The Daily Express. (Began 3 April 3 1961. 850-921)
John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

http://www.michaelmay.online/2014/08/risico-comic-strip.html

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/r.php3

Danish 1967 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no10-1967/

Danish 1976 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/tag/john-mclusky/

https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2015/04/
james%2Bbond%2Bagent%2B007%2Bno%2B10%2Bcomic%2Bbook%2Brisico.jpg

1967: Billboard Magazine runs an ad declaring the You Only Live Twice soundtrack as Album of the Year.

1969: Bond comic strip River of Death begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 29 November 1969. 1038–1174.) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

http://comicsbulletin.com/james-bond-omnibus-volume-003/

Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-21-1971/

1974: The Man with the Golden Gun production team returns to Pinewood Studios for 8 weeks of studio filming.
1981: For Your Eyes Only premieres at the Odeon Leicester Square Theatre, London.

1983: Octopussy released in South Africa.

Thunderfinger · June 2019

RIVER OF DEATH-my first Bond.

RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 25th

1945: Carly Simon is born--The Bronx, New York City, New York.
1950: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea moves south and invades the Republic of Korea, beginning 3 years of war followed by an armistice that continues today.
1963: Norman Felton meets Fleming in London and learns that due to health issues, pressure from producers Broccoli and Saltzman, plus the Thunderball McClory legal suit he is leaving the "Solo" project.
1979: The Museum of Modern Art in New York presents a James Bond exhibit ending 30 June.
1981: For Your Eyes Only released in the United Kingdom.

2015: Daniel Patrick Macnee dies at age 93--Rancho Mirage, California.
(Born 6 February 1922--Paddington, London, England.)

Patrick Macnee’s Biography
http://www.patrickmacnee.com/bio/

Details of Patrick Macnee’s Life

Patrick Macnee was born into an aristocratic English family — his Father was a successful racehorse trainer and his mother was the lovely Dorothea Hastings, a niece of the Earl of Huntingdon (descendants of Robin Hood!). His parents divorced after his father ran off to India and his mother moved into Rooksnest, a bizarre household in Wiltshire, dominated by his mother’s lady lover, the formidable “Uncle” Evelyn. At age three, he was bundled off to Summer Fields Prep School near Oxford. Patrick then entered Eton College, where apart from an active role with the school’s dramatic society, he distinguished himself as the leading bookie and pornographer on campus — and was promptly expelled.

Macnee went on to win a scholarship to Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and got his start in show business in 1941 with a small role in a stage production of Little Women. One year later he made his debut in films as an extra in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

After serving as an officer in His Majesty’s Royal Britannic Navy (1942-46), Patrick resumed his career in stage and film roles. Commuting between Britain, America and Canada, where he helped to pioneer Canadian TV, Macnee starred in over 30 television plays and more than a dozen feature films during the busy post-war years. Patrick was in Hollywood from 1957-1959 for Les Girls and Mission of Danger for MGM; his TV credits during this time included various Playhouse 90’s, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and numerous stage appearances across the country.

In 1960 Macnee landed the leading role in an imaginative new British TV series The Avengers, playing John Steed, the suave, dashing Englishman with his bowler hat, rolled umbrella and fancy clothes. Overnight The Avengers became an international hit, Macnee’s popularity soared and both show and star enjoyed a cult-like status. His leading ladies included Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman, Joanna Lumley and Linda Thorson.

His early major credits include Young Doctors in Love, James Bond’s A View To A Kill, Sea Wolves with David Niven, Gregory Peck and Roger Moore, Rob Reiner’s This Is Spinal Tap, and the television series, The New Avengers. For two years Macnee also starred in the Broadway production of Sleuth. He then performed the role in Canada and other U.S. cities.

Numerous appearances on television series include Sherlock Holmes with Christopher Lee, HBO’s Dream On and 26 episodes of Thunder in Paradise with Hulk Hogan. He currently hosts the Sci-Fi Channel’s popular program Mysteries, Magic and Miracles.

One of his great pleasures these days is recording books on tape. Recent recordings include the Bible, eight of Jack Higgins’ thrillers and Peter Mayle’s Toujours Provence. Patrick’s entertaining autobiography, Blind In One Ear, was published in 1992.

His latest book is a memoir, The Avengers: The Inside Story, which was re-published by Titan Books in January 2008, and is a companion to the digitally remastered home videos of the The Avengers and The New Avengers. Since their original release in 1998, the home videos, with episodes starring Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, Linda Thorson, Joanna Lumley and Gareth Hunt have all ranked high on the Billboard Top 40 charts.

After nearly 40 years on television, The Avengers came to the big screen with Ralph Fiennes in the role of John Steed. Carrying on the suave style created by Patrick Macnee, the new Steed continued to wear a bowler hat and carry a furled umbrella, but did not — to Macnee’s delight — carry a gun.

In his spare time Patrick enjoys bird-watching, desert reclamation, and preventing terrorism! (He received an award from the Bureau of Federal Aviation for preventing terrorism on aircraft). Also, The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror has honored Patrick with their prestigious Golden Scroll award. A born raconteur, Patrick delights in entertaining audiences large and small.

Patrick Macnee's Work Credits

http://www.patrickmacnee.com/work/

2016: Trevor Steedman dies at age 52--London, England. (Born 25 May 25 1954--Thurrock, England.)

Trevor Steedman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Steedman

Trevor Steedman (25 May 1954 – 25 June 2016) was a British actor and stuntman best known for playing Private Wierzbowski in 1986's Aliens.

Born in Thurrock, Essex, Steedman began work as a stuntman in 1984, doing uncredited work on A View to a Kill and Doctor Who. In 1986, he appeared in James Cameron's Aliens, the sequel to 1979's Alien. Steedman played Private Wierzbowski, a member of the team of Marines who return to the planet the first film took place on, resulting in them being attacked by a horde of Xenomorphs. In the years after Aliens release, Steedman would actively take part in the Alien community, attending conventions and fan gatherings.

Steedman went on to do stunts in the James Bond films GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies, as well as Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Rob Roy, Snatch, Children of Men and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1986 Aliens, Private Wierzbowski
2000 Snatch, Bomber Harris
2002 The Reckoning, Jealous Husband
2007 Deadmeat, East End Heavy
2013 The Ice Road, Narrator (final film role)

RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 26th

1950: Corinne Cléry is born--Paris, France.
1951: Robert Davi is born--Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York.
1954: US publisher Macmillan releases 4,000 copies of Casino Royale to poor sales.

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1959: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's seventh Bond novel Goldfinger. Richard Chopping cover.

'Gilt-edged Bond.' SUNDAY TIMES
'In a class of its own.' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Mr. Fleming is the best thriller writer since
Buchan.' EVENING STANDARD
'Sound writing and a sophisticated mind.'
THE TIMES
'James Bond is having it good again.'
THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
'With his forked tongue sticking right
through his cheeek, he remains maniacally
readable.' OBSERVER
'Only Fleming could have got away with it
. . . . outrageously improbably, wickedly
funny, wildly exciting.'
MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
'Mr. Fleming is still in a class by himself.'
OXFORD MAIL

and, for the two million citizens who play
golf, this acclamation from Henry Longhurst
in the SUNDAY TIMES:
'As a rabid fan of Ian Fleming and the
adventures of his Secret Service hero, I am
delighted to find that the second of the
latter's skirmishes with villainous Mr.
Goldfinger takes place on the golf course
. . . The account of the match add materially
to the fictional literature of golf.'

James Bond's most recent adventure was
DOCTOR NO
'Ian Fleming first attracted me for three
qualities which I thought, perhaps wrongly,
almost unique in English writers . . escape
from the mandarin English . . daring . . an
acute sense of place.' Raymond Chandler in
THE SUNDAY TIMES
'Fleming, by reason of his cool and analyti-
cal intelligence, his informed use of technical
facts, his plausibility, sense of pace, brilliant
descriptive powers and superb imagination,
provides sheer entertainment such as I, who
must read many novels, am seldom lucky
enough to find.' SPECTATOR
'Sex, sadism and snobbery. NEW STATESMAN
'Absolutely compelling.' TABLET

Jacket design by Richard Chopping

1961: Comic strip From A View To A Kill begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 9 September 1961. 922-987) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/favtak.php3

http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=989

https://literary007.com/2015/05/02/unused-literary-bond-scenes-that-should-be-filmed-part-002/

Swedish 1976 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1976.php3?s=comics&id=01835

Danish 1978 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no43-1978/

Danish 1968 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no13-1968/

1962: Bert Rhodes finishes orchestrating the remainder of Monty Norman's score for Dr No at CTS Studios, London. Norman splits his £500 fee. None of it it included in the released soundtrack album.
1963: Terence Young films Rosa Klebb inspecting Red Grant for fitness.
1979: London Royal Premiere of Moonraker at the Odeon Theater, Leicester Square.

1981: For Your Eyes Only released in the US.

Title cards, 11x14 inch displayed in sets of eight.

1982: Charles Joseph Russhon, United States Air Force retired, Lieutenant Colonel, dies at at age 71--New York City, New York. (Born 23 March 1911.)

Through Airmen's Eyes: The
Airman and James Bond
https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/109829/through-airmens-eyes-the-airman-and-james-bond/
By Rachel Arroyo, Air Force Special Operations Command Public Affairs / Published January 19, 2013

(U.S. Air Force graphic/Robin Meredith/courtesy photo)
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Sean Connery feigns shoving a vanilla ice cream cone in Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon’s face during the production of “Thunderball.” Russhon was the military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Russhon and Connery became friends on set. The vanilla ice cream cone had special significance to Russhon, who inspired the “Charlie Vanilla” character, an ice cream loving mister fix-it, in friend and esteemed American cartoonist Milton Caniff’s comic strip “Steve Canyon.” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, feigns shoving a vanilla ice cream cone in Sean Connery’s face during the production of “Thunderball.” Russhon and Connery became friends on set. The vanilla ice cream cone had special significance to Russhon, who inspired the “Charlie Vanilla” character, an ice cream loving mister fix-it, in friend and esteemed American cartoonist Milton Caniff’s comic strip “Steve Canyon.” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, one of the original Air Commandos and military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, hugs Claudine Auger, a Bond girl in “Thunderball” and former Miss France Monde, during the production of “Thunderball.” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)

Claire Russhon, wife of Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, poses in the Aston Martin DB5 made famous in the films. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, hugs Martine Beswick, an English actress cast as a Bond girl in “Thunderball” and “From Russia With Love,” during the production of “Thunderball.” Sean Connery sits in the foreground. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)

Sean Connery is welcomed to the TWA Ambassadors Club during the production of “Thunderball.” Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s and friend of Sean Connery’s, is to his right. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)

This photograph from a 1945 article published in the “San Francisco Examiner” features Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon as a captain (center) after his return from Japan in the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Russhon was one of the first Americans on the ground in both locations within 24 hours of the bombs being dropped on both. One of the original Air Commandos, Russhon worked as a military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s. (Photo by the "San Francisco Examiner" courtesy of Christian Russhon)

American cartoonist Milton Caniff poses with his “Steve Canyon” comic strip featuring “Charlie Vanilla,” a character inspired by his friend Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, one of the original Air Commandos and military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s. The signed photograph features a circled “Charlie Vanilla,” aka Russhon, and says “this guy keeps turning up!” (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon (left), military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s and one of the original Air Commandos, chats with Major General (ret) Johnny Alison, one of the fathers of Air Force special operations, and Brigadier General J. Jackson. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Russhon, military advisor to the James Bond films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, poses with Sean Connery during the production of “Thunderball.” Russhon took Connery in tow when he arrived in New York, and they remained friends until Russhon passed away in 1982, Russhon’s wife, Claire Russhon, said. (Photo courtesy of Christian Russhon)

HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. (AFNS) -- (Editor's Note:This feature is part of the "Through Airmen's Eyes" series on AF.mil. These stories focus on a single Airman, highlighting their Air Force story.)

Quartermaster "Q" supplied Skyfall's 50-year anniversary James Bond with a radio and a Walther PPK handgun, but Sean Connery's 007 relied on an Special Operations Airman for some of the bigger stuff.

Retired Lt. Col. Charles Russhon, one of the founding air commandos assigned to the China-Burma-India theater in World War II, was a military adviser to the Bond films in the 1960s and 1970s.

Among the gadgets Russhon procured for filmmakers were the Bell-Textron Jet Pack and the Fulton Skyhook, both featured in the 1965 "Thunderball," as well as the explosives that were used to blow up the Disco Volante ship.

He arranged for exterior access to Fort Knox, Ky., coordinated filming locations in Istanbul, Turkey, and facilitated film participation by Air Force pararescuemen in "Thunderball."

"Roger Moore called him 'Mr. Fixit' because he seemed to be able to do or get anything in New York City," Russhon's wife, Claire, wrote in an email. "For example, suspending traffic on FDR Drive for a Bond chase scene (and that isn't done in one take)."

As special associate to the producers, Russhon, a native New Yorker, researched new technologies, locations and permissions for whatever the scripts required, she said.

Russhon, who passed away in 1982, worked on "From Russia With Love," "Goldfinger," "Thunderball," "You Only Live Twice," and "Live and Let Die."

"Mr. Fix-It"

Christian Russhon remembers his father's business card read "catalyst -- agent that brings others together."

For him, there was never a dull moment, he said.

"He was larger than life," Christian said.

The film crew commemorated the colonel's penchant for life on the set of "Goldfinger" in which they promoted him to the rank of general. In the film, a banner hung on the Fort Knox airplane hangar reads "Welcome, General Russhon."

Christian Russhon said he also remembers seeing his dad on film in "Thunderball" in which he appeared as an Air Force officer at a conference with other agents. According to the International Movie Database, Russhon is sitting to the right of "M" in the scene.

Russhon's connections with movers and shakers made him the right man for the Bond job after his retirement from active-duty service in the Air Force. His acquaintance with film producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli predated Broccoli's work on the Bond films, Claire Russhon said. He was available when Broccoli needed a man stateside to work on the films.

Russhon relied on his acquaintance with President John F. Kennedy's press secretary Pierre Salinger for access to film at Fort Knox in "Goldfinger."

He worked with his military connections to get approval for filming in Turkey in "From Russia with Love" and to arrange for pararescuemen conducting a water training jump to be featured in "Thunderball."

He was also there for a young Sean Connery when he arrived in New York City, Claire Russhon said.

"Connery was a stranger in New York, and Charles took him in tow."

When Connery was at odds with the producers, Russhon would serve as the go-between, she said.

"Despite his reputation with the girls, Sean was a man's man," she said. "They kept in touch long after working together, and Sean called me when Charles died."

Christian Russhon, who has also worked in the film industry for 30 years, remembers Sean Connery stopping by their New York apartment all the time.

"I called him Uncle Sean," he said.

The BSA Lightning motorcycle from "Thunderball," complete with rockets, also left an impression on young Christian Russhon. The motorcycle was gifted to his dad who gave it to his godson. Christian was not old enough to drive yet, so he missed out on the BSA Lightning, he recalled.

Some real spy work

Russhon not only had the connections, but he had the credentials to advise Bond filmmakers. He conducted his own top secret special operations work with the 1st Air Commando Group during World War II.

The group, led by co-commanders and then lieutenant colonels John Alison and Philip Cochran, assisted one of the fathers of irregular warfare, British Army Maj. Gen. Orde Wingate, and his ground forces, the "Chindits," as they penetrated the Burmese jungles in the fight against the Japanese.

Their mission was to provide air support to British ground forces through infiltration and exfiltration, combat resupply and medical evacuations in hostile territory using a wide variety of aircraft flying low-level, long-range missions.

Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Russhon worked as a sound engineer for NBC in New York City and for Hollywood-based Republic Pictures, which specialized in Westerns.

Claire Russhon said her husband's deep patriotism and education at Peekskill Military Academy, Peekskill, N.Y., motivated him to join the U.S. Army Air Corps following the attack.

As a young lieutenant, he was sent to Burma where he led the 10th Combat Camera Unit, a small group of cameramen supporting the 1st Air Commando Group.

Alison and Cochran built a rapport with Russhon based on his exemplary work as a cameraman. He later became permanently attached to the Group, said Air Force Special Operations Command historian William Landau.

"They became fast friends," Claire Russhon said. "Gen. John Alison was later best man at our wedding."

Russhon became critical to mission success in the days leading up to Operation Thursday when he was cleared by Cochran to defy Wingate's orders and conduct last minute photo reconnaissance of the three landing strips Allied forces were to use during the mission, Landau said.

Operation Thursday, a mission in which gliders were used to drop the Chindits deep behind Japanese enemy lines, marks the first time in military history that airpower was the backbone of an invasion, Landau said.

"The photo reconnaissance was used to survey and select the landing sights," he said. "By cutting it off, Wingate basically left himself open to the possibility of a nasty surprise upon landing."

Russhon got in the air with his camera. The first airstrip, Broadway, was clear. Chowringhee airstrip was clear. Piccadilly, which was to be used in the first night of operations, was strewn with teak logs locals had dragged out to the clearing to dry, he said.

"Russhon was so taken aback, he actually forgot to photograph the area," Landau said. The pilot doubled back.

He rushed to develop about 30 photographs at the nearest base of operations and had them delivered to Cochran, Alison and Wingate.

"(Russhon's photo reconnaissance) not only saved many lives. It saved the operation itself," Landau said. "If they had landed with logs and debris at Piccadilly, the mission had the potential of being a catastrophic failure."

Russhon received the British Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions in August 1945. An excerpt from the citation reads: "This officer has displayed exemplary keenness and devotion to duty and was personally commended by General Wingate for his courageous action."

Russhon continued to serve as a photographer through the end of World War II.

After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he was among the first Americans on location documenting the destruction.

A 1945 article from the San Francisco Examiner interviewed Russhon about being on the ground in both cities within 24 hours after each bomb dropped.

"A strange, rusty-looking haze hung over Nagasaki when I flew above the city at 3,000 feet the day after it was hit by the atomic bomb," Charles Russhon told the Examiner. "It was unlike anything I've ever run into before or since. I got out of there in one hell of a hurry."

Following his active-duty career with the Air Force, Russhon entered the Air Force Reserve and began his work bringing life to Ian Fleming's Bond on the big screen.

Claire Russhon said her husband enjoyed working on all of the Bond films but that one of the most interesting was "You Only Live Twice," because it required him to return to Japan where he recalled some of his World War II experiences.

"In preparing for the Bond filming, there was a reception for the Japanese officials at which a gentleman greeted Charles and said 'you have gained weight,'" she said. "It was a Japanese general who explained that he was on the welcoming committee at Atsugi Air Base, (Japan,) when that first plane arrived (after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and Charles stepped off."

Russhon's legacy is extensive. Not only has he been immortalized on screen in the Bond films, but friend and celebrated American cartoonist Milton Caniff crafted "Charlie Vanilla" from his "Steve Canyon" comic strip after his person.

The "Charlie Vanilla" character was a mister fix-it with an affinity for vanilla ice cream who always managed to save the day, Claire Russhon said.

"The ice cream cone was fashioned after Charles's addiction to chocolate ice cream, but Caniff decided that 'Vanilla,' with the dangling vowel sounded more ominous," she said.

Beyond the life he breathed into Bond by supplying filmmakers with the cool gadgets and locations viewers remember when they watch classic movies like "Goldfinger," Russhon is immortalized in Air Commando history through his photos and his leadership.

"I get a sense of adventure. I get a sense of cunning," the AFSOC historian said. "To me, he embodied what an Air Commando more or less should be. He was fearless."

(Editor's note: This article was completed with research assistance from the Air Force Special Operations Command Historian)]/i]

1986: Jonathan Cape publishes the John Gardner Bond novel Nobody Lives For Ever.

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2019: BOND 25 reveals a behind the scenes teaser.

2019: Bryan Marshall dies at age 81. (Born: 19 May 1938--Battersea, London, England.)

Bryan Marshall death: James Bond
actor who starred alongside Roger
Moore dies, aged 81
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/bryan-marshall-death-james-bond-actor-the-spy-who-loved-me-roger-moore-age-cause-dead-a8975606.html

Actor enjoyed a number of film and TV roles opposite stars including Roger Moore and Helen Mirren

Roisin O'Connor | @Roisin_OConnor

Bryan Marshall, the British actor best-known for his role as Commander Talbot in James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, has died aged 81.

The news was confirmed by ECA agent Esta Charkham on Twitter: “So sad that my dear old chum Bryan Marshall has gone on ahead,” she wrote. “A wonderful actor – he was so good you never noticed how good he was.”

She added: “He was a valued chum. His credits are a catalogue of classic British and Australian TV. Fare Forward Dearest Bryan!”

Marshall was born in Battersea, London in 1983. He trained at the prestigious RADA school and performed at the Bristol Old Vic before a string of film and TV roles, including a part in the classic Michael Caine film, Alfie.

In 1977, he landed the role of a submarine commander whose vessel is rescued by Roger Moore’s 007 in The Spy Who Loved Me. Two years later, he starred alongside Helen Mirren and Bob Hoskins in one of his biggest roles, as Harris in the gangster movie The Long Good Friday.

After moving to Australia, Marshall enjoyed roles in Neighbours and Home and Away. He also enjoyed a stint as a presenter on Australia’s Most Wanted in 1989.

RichardTheBruce · June 2019

June 27th

1963: Dr No released in Toronto, Canada.
1973: Live and Let Die released in the US.

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http://www.the007dossier.com/page/Live-and-Let-Die-Movie-Posters

1979: Moonraker general release in the UK.

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1984: A fire on the set of the Ridley Scott film Legend severely damages the 007 Stage.

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1985: A View to a Kill released in Brazil.
1987: The London Royal Premiere of The Living Daylights at the Odeon Theater, Leicester Square, London.

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1996: Alberto Romolo "Cubby" Broccoli dies at age 87-- Beverly Hills, California.
(Born 5 April 1909--New York City, New York.)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7733431/Albert-Cubby-Broccoli.html
Albert "Cubby" Broccoli

Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, the film producer, who has died in Beverly Hills aged 87, was the driving force behind the phenomenally successful James Bond films, 17 of which he either produced or co-produced.[/b]
2:36PM BST 29 Jun 1996

Photo: REUTERS

A vast, unhurried man with the deeply shadowed eyes of a perpetual jet-setter, Broccoli, ensconced in the calm of his Mayfair office, could remind visitors of one of James Bond's sensual, cat-stroking adversaries.

But he was noted by the profession for his geniality, and for the fatherly interest he took in his productions. Despite the enormous riches he accumulated from putting Ian Fleming's books on screen, Broccoli was almost believed when he said: "I have always felt that Bond is bigger than all of us."

In 1960 he formed Eon (standing for "Everything or Nothing") Film Productions in London with the Canadian Harry Saltzman, who held an expiring option on the film rights to all Fleming's Bond books except Casino Royale.

Broccoli and Saltzman agreed that the film industry should be international in scope, but their working methods were contrasting. While Saltzman revelled in his tough image, Broccoli became known as one of the industry's nice guys. As Michael Caine said, "Cubby is Harry's sense of proportion. They're like two policemen: Cubby gives you a cigarette and Harry knocks it out of your mouth."

Their break came in 1962 when they persuaded United Artists to provide backing for Dr No, and made the inspired casting of Sean Connery - who, they thought, had the right walk - as Bond. An immediate hit, the film was followed by From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965).

By then the partners were pounds 4 million the richer. Their partnership, which was always combative, endured until 1975, when Saltzman sold his share and Broccoli became the undisputed chief of the Bond industry. As such he took an unusually involved approach, embroiling himself in every stage of a film's development.

"Bond is the only script written by a committee," he said. "I sit down with the writer, director and executive producer and we decide what we want in the script. The final decision," he added, "is made by me."

Albert Romolo Broccoli, always known as "Cubby", was born in New York on April 5 1909, the son of Italian immigrants. His father was a bricklayer. With no idea what he would do with his life, young Cubby helped an uncle who ran a market garden in Long Island. He would later claim that this uncle brought the first broccoli seeds to America and gave his name to the well-known vegetable. Etymologists think otherwise.

After a spell managing a coffin-factory, Broccoli was alerted by a holiday in Hollywood to his desire for a career in films and he moved out to the west. Not an immediate success, he worked as a street-corner Christmas tree hawker and as a salesman of hairdressing products in San Francisco, where he lived in one room with only a rat for company.

"I really looked forward to seeing that rat. I fed him. He became a friend. Then one day I won a few dollars at the races. That was it: I said goodbye to the rat and made for LA." He became a teaboy at 20th Century Fox studios and soon progressed to the post of assistant director.

During the Second World War, Broccoli served in the navy. Afterwards he worked in Hollywood as an agent and then settled in London. In 1951 he formed Warwick Film Productions with Irving Allen and produced a large number of competent pictures with tough characters and lots of action. These include The Red Beret (1953), Safari (1956) and The Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959).

Although generally jovial and given to dishing up spaghetti for cast and crew, Broccoli could be stern. In 1970 he explained why the contract of George Lazenby, who played Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), had not been renewed. "Our parting was not by mutual desire," he said, "but by our desire. I wouldn't use him again. He's a pain in the arse."

Broccoli returned to Hollywood in 1977, for tax reasons. In 1982 he was honoured at the Oscar ceremony with the prestigious Irving G Thalberg award. He was appointed OBE in 1987.

Extremely skilful at negotiating a fair share for himself from the Bond films, Broccoli amassed an estimated pounds 100 million.

He married, in 1959, Dana Wilson; Cary Grant was best man. They had two daughters.

2018: Wanda's Book Reviews notes an Agatha Christie connection.

Wanda's Book Reviews
Did Agatha Christie influence
Ian Fleming?
http://wandapedersen39.booklikes.com/post/1769680/did-agatha-christie-influence-ian-fleming
2:47 pm 27 June 2018

This is a frequent enough question that Google filled it in for me when I asked! Here is a quote from a website that provides some info:

A character by the name of James Bond appeared in a 1934 short story, "Rajah's Emerald", which was published in the Agatha Christie anthology, The Listerdale Mystery. The Bond character from this short story is not a spy or action hero, but he does deal with an adventure that has to do with a stolen emerald, hence the title, and pines for the heart of a young woman named Grace. Was 007 creator Ian Fleming humoring readers when he named his classic protagonist, James Bond? According to the www.007magazine.co.uk:

"Ian Fleming's wry sense of humor has been well-documented over the years, making it highly possible that he may very well have hoaxed everyone and have also been influenced by Agatha Christie's writings, as her books were bestsellers during his formative years."

It's point five on this web page:
https://patch.com/connecticut/middletown-ct/five-rare-things-about-james-bond-007-you-most-likelyfe20ae95eb

Interesting, yes?

BTW, the link in the actual article is misspelled and doesn't work. Even when you spell it correctly, it only goes to a generic page for the magazine, nothing specific to this question. WP

Thunderfinger · June 2019

@RichardTheBruce , did Legend burn down the 007 stage in both 1984 and 1987? Talk about grudge.

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