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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

Eunice Gayson (1928–2018) [/b]

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Filmography

Actress (54 credits)

1972 The Adventurer (TV Series) - Countess Marie
- Thrust and Counter Thrust (1972) ... Countess Marie
1970 Turkey Time (TV Movie) - Louise Stoatt
1970 Albert and Victoria (TV Series) - Madame Aix
- Lovers' Quarrel (1970) ... Madame Aix
- The Gothic Church (1970) ... Madame Aix

1968 The World of Beachcomber (TV Series)
- Episode #1.5 (1968)
1967 The Reluctant Romeo (TV Series) - Gina Darletti
- What's in a Name (1967) ... Gina Darletti
1967 The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim (TV Series)
- Jim Cleans Up (1967)
1967 The Dick Emery Show (TV Series)
- Episode #6.3 (1967)
1967 Before the Fringe (TV Series)
- Episode #1.3 (1967)
- Episode #1.2 (1967)
1966 The Avengers (TV Series) - Lucille Banks
- Quick-Quick Slow Death (1966) ... Lucille Banks
1963-1965 The Saint (TV Series) - Christine Graner / Nora Prescott
- The Saint Bids Diamonds (1965) ... Christine Graner
- The Invisible Millionaire (1963) ... Nora Prescott
1964 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Louise Bancroft
- A Man to Be Trusted (1964) ... Louise Bancroft
1963 From Russia with Love - Sylvia Trench
1962 Dr. No -Sylvia Trench
1961 Stryker of the Yard (TV Series)
- The Case of the Bogus Count (1961)

1959 Theatre Night (TV Series) - Liz Pleydell
- Let Them Eat Cake (1959) ... Liz Pleydell
1958 Adventures of the Sea Hawk (TV Series) - Carmelita
- Episode #1.25 (1958) ... Carmelita
1958 The Revenge of Frankenstein - Margaret
1958 Duty Bound (TV Series) - Arlene van Hoyk
- Cows Don't Fly (1958) ... Arlene van Hoyk
1958 Educated Evans (TV Series) - Lady Fanny Kozatski
- Musical Tip (1958) ... Lady Fanny Kozatski
1958 The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (TV Series) - Yasmin Rashied
- The Hand of Hera Dass (1958) ... Yasmin Rashied
1958 White Hunter (TV Series) - Thelma Thomas
- This Hungry Hell (1958) ... Thelma Thomas
1957 The New Adventures of Martin Kane (TV Series) - June Hartley
- The Heiress Story (1957) ... June Hartley
1952-1957 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series)
Madame Caprice / Chris Cummings / Louka
- What the Doctor Ordered (1957) ... Madame Caprice
- The Whiteoak Chronicles #2: Whiteoak Heritage (1955) ... Chris Cummings
- Arms and the Man (1952) ... Louka
1957 Light Fingers - Rose Levenham
1957 The Ship Was Loaded - Jane Godfrey
1956 Zarak - Cathy Ingram
1956 The Last Man to Hang - The Story: Elizabeth
1955 Count of Twelve - Valerie Dyson (episode "Blind Man's Bluff")
1954-1955 The Vise (TV Series) - Angelia Clifton / Valerie Dyson / Julia
- The Bargain (1955) ... Angelia Clifton
- Blind Man's Bluff (1955) ... Valerie Dyson
- Death Pays No Dividends (1954) ... Julia
1954-1955 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Nora Kenealy / Angela / Dolly / ...
- The Thoroughbred (1955) ... Nora Kenealy
- The Mix-Up (1954) ... Angela
- One Way Ticket (1954) ... Dolly
- The Apples (1954) ... Micky
- Johnny Blue (1954) ... Milly
1955 Out of the Clouds - Penny Henson
1954 One Just Man
1954 Dance Little Lady - Adele
1953 Both Sides of the Law - Janet (uncredited)
1952 Miss Robin Hood - Pam
1952 Down Among the Z Men - Officer's Wife (uncredited)
1952 Goonreel (TV Movie) - Various
1952 Nine Till Six (TV Movie) - Beatrice
1951 La belle Hélène (TV Movie) - Leoena
1951 To Have and to Hold - Peggy
1950 Dance Hall - Mona
1950 Mother of Men (TV Movie) - Jennie
1950 Treasures in Heaven (TV Movie) - Carol Benson
1950 Here Come the Boys (TV Series)
- Episode #2.1 (1950)

1949 Dick Whittington (TV Movie) - Alice
1949 The Director (TV Movie) - Katie
1949 Pink String and Sealing Wax (TV Movie) - Emily Strachan
1949 Melody in the Dark - Pat Evans
1949 The Huggetts Abroad - Peggy (uncredited)
1948 Lady Luck (TV Movie) - Faith
1948 It Happened in Soho - Julie
1948 Halesapoppin! (TV Movie)
1948 My Brother Jonathan - Young Girl
1948 Between Ourselves (TV Movie)

Trivia (7)

Appeared on stage in the musical production of "Into the Woods" in 1990.

Her daughter Kate Gayson later appeared as an extra in the '007' film GoldenEye (1995).

Initially cast as "Miss Moneypenny" (the role ended up going to Lois Maxwell) at the beginning of the James Bond film series, she instead was given the part of seductive "Sylvia Trench" which was to be a recurring role as well. She has the distinction of appearing in the opening casino scene with Sean Connery in Dr. No (1962), in which she says, "I admire your luck, Mr..." and Connery says, "Bond. James Bond". Her part was cut after the second movie, From Russia with Love (1963).

Originally trained as an opera singer, before entering films.

She was dubbed by Nikki Van der Zyl in Dr. No (1962).

Appeared on stage in London for many years playing The Baroness in "The Sound of Music" at the Palace Theatre.

For a long time, she was the only non-'MI6' actress to play the same character in more than one James Bond film until Léa Seydoux played the same character in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2020).

2021: Three classic Aston Martin automobiles come available for viewing at the London Concours, Honourable Artillery Company’s HQ, London.

Aston Martin DB5 Vantage Trio –
Coupe, Convertible and Shooting
Brake – up for sale

See the complete article here:

https://www.carsuk.net/aston-martin-db5-vantage-trio-coupe-convertible-and-shooting-brake-up-for-sale/

June 4, 2021 By Cars UK

Aston Martin DB5 Vantage Icons Collection

A trio of Aston Martin DB5s – a Coupe, Convertible and Shooting Brake – is up for sale with a price tag of £4 million.

The Aston Martin DB5 is forever imprinted in our brains as the ultimate Aston Martin, driven by James Bond and the coolest car on the planet.

Aston Martin only ever built just of 1,000 DB5s, and if you want one with ‘Bond’ history you’ll be digging deep – a James Bond Aston Martin DB5 sold in 2019 for £5.25 million – and even the James Bond DB5 ‘Continuation’ models – which you can’t use on the road – will cost you £3.3 million.

But if you can live without the Bond connection, then the chance has arisen to buy what is perhaps the ultimate DB5 collection, a trio of DB5s with a Coupe, Convertible and Shooting Brake all for less than a Bond DB5 – a mere £4,000,000.

Not only is this collection of DB5s rare, but it’s made rarer still as all are Vantage models of which fewer than 70 were ever built – and the DB5 Vantage Shooting Brake is the only one ever built, complete with Radford aluminium body.

Each of the three has been restored by a leading Aston Martin specialists and comes with BMHIT certificate, maintenance records, ownership documents and history files.

If you have a hankering for this unique collection you can see it at the London Concours starting on 8 June at the Honourable Artillery Company’s HQ in the City of London.

Offered by Nicholas Mee, founder Nicholas Mee said:

"In the 40 or more years I have been dealing in Aston Martin
cars, I have never been more excited than to offer this
fabulous collection of Iconic DB5 Vantages. Each one of
them extremely rare, they are all in a beautifully restored
condition and we are delighted to bring to market, this
once in a lifetime opportunity for a collector to invest in this
unique DB5 Vantage collection."

Aston Martin DB5 Vantage Icons Collection Video

2025: World Gin Day. For the World.

GIN – THE RISING STAR OF THE SPIRIT WORLD!
https://www.pandorainn.com/gin-the-rising-star-of-the-spirit-world/
It’s hard to believe that, until a few years ago, gin was considered old-fashioned. A pink gin or a G&T were definitely the drinks of the older generation. Then suddenly – gin was in! Artisan gin producers started springing up everywhere and pubs, like ours, began stocking lots of different brands, quite a few of them locally produced.
• Though James Bond’s famous “shaken, not stirred” line is probably the most remembered Martini quote in the world, the majority of bartenders disagree and would recommend a stirred Martini instead, as shaking prompts too much dilution.
• Most authorities seem to agree that Gin is English – not Dutch. Genever, a malted spirit that more like a light whisky with juniper, is Netherlands’ version. Gin, as we know it, was developed in London and is a unique and much purer spirit.
• Gin was born around 1689. The earliest known food pairing occurred in 1731: gingerbread!
• By 1726, London had 1,500 working stills and there were 6,287 places where you could buy gin.
• Gin’s primary flavour is the sweet pine and soft citrus of the juniper berry. All other botanicals are added to highlight nuances of this complex and sophisticated flavour.
• The gin and tonic first gained popularity in the British colonies, as the quinine in the tonic water was an effective deterrent to malaria-carrying mosquitoes. However, the bitterness of the quinine was awful, so gin was added to make the drink taste better.
• Though James Bond’s famous “shaken, not stirred” line is probably the most remembered Martini quote in the world, the majority of bartenders disagree and would recommend a stirred Martini instead, as shaking prompts too much dilution.
• Gin’s primary flavour is the sweet pine and soft citrus of the juniper berry. All other botanicals are added to highlight the nuances of this complex and sophisticated flavour.

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RichardTheBruce

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

See the complete article here:

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

1934: Donald Duck debuts in the Disney cartoon short “The Wise Little Hen”.

The Wise Little Hen

1963: Director Terence Young hosts a party with guest of honor Pedro Armendáriz.
1967: Reprise Records releases the Nancy Sinatra single "You Only Live Twice."
1967: The NBC-TV special Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond airs.

Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond - TV Special 1967 (50:02)


http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Welcome_to_Japan,_Mr._Bond

1972: Tom Mankiewicz submits his first draft of the Live and Let Die screenplay.
1973: The "Live and Let Die" single by Paul McCartney and Wings enters the UK singles chart.

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films action in the parking garage.
1999: The World Is Not Enough films Desmond Llewelyn's last scene as Q.

2009: Media speculation on BOND 23 locations runs to Afghanistan and drug capers.

2015: A Spectre TV spot during Game 3 of the NBA finals (Cleveland Cavaliers, Golden State Warriors) reveals new footage.

SPECTRE TV Spot 01 (NBA Finals)

2016: An event celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Duke of Edinburgh awards, Buckinghamshire.
In attendance are The Royals, Sir Roger Moore, Dame Judi Dench, Michael G. Wilson C.B.E.

2021: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Agent of SPECTRE #4.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Christos Gage, writer.

JAMES BOND: AGENT OF
SPECTRE #4

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513030383704011
Cover A: Butch Guice
UPC: 725130303837 04011
Writer: Christos Gage
Artist: Luca Casalanguida
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: June 2021
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32
ON SALE DATE: 6/9/2021

It's all-out action in Athens, Greece as Bond and Blofeld's tenuous alliance is tested under fire! Can they survive the mountainside attack by upstart SPECTRE member Titania Jones...and can they survive each other? The double-crosses and triple-crosses hurtle toward a shocking and explosive conclusion in this penultimate issue!

2022: Taryn Simon exhibit “Birds of the West Indies” at the Conservatory Gallery, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, New York.

Taryn Simon: “Birds of the West Indies”

See the complete article here:

https://www.bbg.org/visit/event/taryn_simon_birds_of_the_west_indies

Taryn Simon: “Birds of the West Indies”
Exhibits | For the Birds
June 7–October 23, 2022
Conservatory Gallery

In “Birds of the West Indies,” which takes its title from a taxonomy by American ornithologist James Bond, Taryn Simon identifies, photographs, and classifies every bird that appears in the first 24 James Bond films. Casting herself as Bond the ornithologist, Simon trains her eye away from the agents of seduction—luxury, power, violence, sex—to look only in the margins.

26 images in a matted frame, each with a label
Taryn Simon, “United Kingdom, Birds of the West Indies,” 2014.
Archival inkjet prints in boxed mats and aluminum frames, 39⅞ × 94⅞ inches.
Edition of 4. © Taryn Simon. Courtesy Gagosian.

7 images with labels elegantly framed with a matte
Taryn Simon, “Morocco, Birds of the West Indies,” 2014.
Archival inkjet prints in boxed mats and aluminum frames, 26⅞ × 33⅞ inches.
Edition of 4. © Taryn Simon. Courtesy Gagosian.

About the Work
In 1936, an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher living in Jamaica, appropriated the name for his novel’s lead character. He found it “flat and colourless,” a fitting choice for a character intended to be “anonymous… a blunt instrument in the hands of the government.” This co-opting of a name was the first in a series of substitutions and replacements that would become central to the construction of the Bond narrative. Conflating Bond the ornithologist with 007, Taryn Simon uses the title and format of the ornithologist’s taxonomy for her work, “Birds of the West Indies.”

In “Birds of the West Indies,” Simon casts herself as James Bond (1900–1989) the ornithologist, and identifies, photographs, and classifies all the birds that appear within the first 24 films of the James Bond franchise. The appearance of many of the birds was unplanned and virtually undetected, operating as background noise for whatever set they happened to fly into. Simon ventured through every scene to discover those moments of chance. The result is a taxonomy not unlike the original Birds of the West Indies. The artist has trained her eye away from the agents of seduction—glamour, luxury, power, violence, sex—to look only in the margins. She forces the viewer’s gaze off center, against the intentions of the franchise, by focusing on the forgotten, insignificant, and overlooked.

Each bird is classified by the time code of its appearance, its location, and the year in which it flew. The taxonomy is organized by country: some locations correspond to nations we acknowledge on our maps, including Switzerland, Afghanistan, and North Korea, while others exist solely in the fictionalized rendering of James Bond’s missions, including Republic of Isthmus, San Monique, and SPECTRE Island.

Simon’s ornithological discoveries occupy a liminal space—confined within the fiction of the James Bond universe and yet wholly separate from it. The birds flew freely in the background of the background, unnoticed or unrecognized until they were catalogued by Simon. Sometimes indecipherable specks hovering in the sky or perched on a building, these birds will never know, nor care, about their fame. In their new static form, the birds often resemble dust on a negative, a once common imperfection that has disappeared in the age of Photoshop. Other times, they are frozen in compositions reminiscent of genres from photographic history. Some appear as perfected and constructed still lifes while others have a snapshot quality. Many appear in an obscured, low-resolution form, as if they had been photographed by surveillance drones or hidden cameras. These visual variations are also affected by feature film’s evolution from 35 mm to high-resolution digital output.

Simon’s taxonomy of 331 birds is a precise consideration of a new nature found in an alternate reality. Bird study skins, correspondence, awards, and personal effects of James Bond the ornithologist have been collected by Simon and are displayed in vitrines alongside the photographic works. These artifacts present remnants of the real-life James Bond in his parallel existence to the fictional spy who took his name.

2023: National Donald Duck Day in the US.

https://nationaltoday.com/national-donald-duck-day/

Alvin Silvrants
https://www.catawiki.com/l/38191185-alvin-silvrants-disney-donald-duck-james-bond-007

Donald Gets Drafted 1942 (8:54)


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RichardTheBruce

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

See the complete article here:

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.

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


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

Dödligt Budskap (Fatal Message -Trouble Spot)

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

Dödligt Budskap (Trouble Spot)

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

James Bond Agent 007 no. 27: “Trouble Spot” (1974)
"Dræbende budskab"

1983: EON releases Octopussy in the US.

1983: Vincent Canby reviews Octopussy in The New York Times.

JAMES BOND MEETS 'OCTOPUSSY'

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Octopussy
Directed by John Glen
Action, Adventure, Thriller
PG | 2h 11m

By Vincent Canby | June 10, 1983
Credit...The New York Times Archives

LET'S face it: the sensationally successful and long-lived James Bond films will not quit, and for good reason. They are ''Star Wars'' fantasies for the middle-aged of all ages. ''Octopussy,'' the 13th in the series that began with ''Dr. No'' in 1961, is actually better than most.

The film, which opens today at the National and other theaters, makes no pretense of being based on anything except the Ian Fleming character and the high good humor and wit of the film makers. Agent 007 faces a succession of unspeakable dangers and obliging women with the absurdly overstated, indefatigable waggishness that has outlived all imitations. Roger Moore, who plays Bond yet again, is not getting any younger, but neither is the character. The two have grown gracefully indivisible.

Much of the story is incomprehensible, but I'm sure that the characters include a crazy Soviet general (Steven Berkoff), who is as feared by the Russians as by the Allies; a decadent Afghan prince (Louis Jourdan), who gambles with loaded dice and would not hesitate to blow up the world for personal profit, and the glamorous tycoon of the film's title (Maud Adams), who lives in a lake palace in Udaipur, India, from which she runs an international business empire of hotels, airlines and an East German circus.

The point of any Bond adventure is its incredible gadgets - this film includes a virtually pocket-size jet plane - and the variations worked on the chases, sequences that, like great vaudeville gags, build from one surprise to the next to discover the unexpected topper. In ''Octopussy'' the best of these are a hilarious, precredit sequence in which Bond flees Cuba, another in India where Bond finds himself in league with a tiger in the course of an unusual ''shoot'' and one across East Germany involving an automobile, a circus train and an atomic bomb.

George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson are responsible for the story and screenplay, which was directed by John Glen, who does much better than he did with ''For Your Eyes Only.'' However, the material is markedly better, and the budget seems noticeably larger. Peter Lamont's production design is both extravagant and funny.

''Octopussy,'' which has been rated PG (''Parental Guidance Suggested''), includes a lot of low-voltage sexual hanky-panky and some scenes of mayhem that are more picturesque than realistically violent. Vincent Canby

Palace Life in India

OCTOPUSSY, directed by John Glen; screen story and screenplay by George MacDonald Fraser and Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson; director of photography, Alan Hume; edited by Peter Davies and Henry Richardson; music by John Barry; produced by Albert R. Broccoli; released by M-G-M/U.A. Entertainment Corpora- tion. At the National 2, Broadway and 44th Street; Gemini 1 and 2, 64th Street and Second Avenue; 86th Street Twin 2, at Lexington Avenue; New Yorker 2, Broadway and 88th Street; Bay Cinema, Second Avenue and 31st Street and other theaters. Running time: 130 minutes. This film is rated PG.

James Bond . . . . . Roger Moore
Octopussy . . . . . Maud Adams
Kamal . . . . . Louis Jourdan
Magda . . . . . Kristina Wayborn
Gobinda . . . . . Kabir Bedi
Orlov . . . . . Steven Berkoff
Twin One . . . . . David Meyer
Twin Two . . . . . Tony Meyer
Vijay . . . . . Vijay Amritraj
Q . . . . . Desmond Llewelyn
M . . . . . Robert Brown
Gogol . . . . . Walter Gotell
Minister of Defense . . . . . Geoffrey Keen
Gwendoline . . . . . Suzanne Jerome

1985: Lawrence O'Toole reviews A View to a Kill in Maclean's. He likes it.

The chivalrous knight of old
A VIEW TO A KILL Directed by John Glen

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June 10 1985 LAWRENCE O’TOOLE

A VIEW TO A KILL Directed by John Glen

Of all the modern formulas in the movie industry, the James Bond series is among the most pleasurable and durable. Lavish with their budgets, the producers also bring a great deal of craft, wit and a sense of fun to the films. Agent 007 is like an old friend whom an audience meets for drinks every two years or so; he regales them with tall tales, winking all the time. The 15th and newest Bond epic, A View to a Kill, is an especially satisfying encounter. As Bond, Roger Moore takes on a brilliant but psychotic Russian named Zorin (Christopher Walken) and his lethal assistant, May Day, played by the astonishingly muscular and sleek Grace Jones. The villain’s plan, as in most Bond films, is nothing less ambitious than the takeover of the world, which he plans to do by controlling the international microchip market. Because 80 per cent of the world’s microchip production comes from California’s Silicon Valley, Zorin simply has to close up the San Andreas Fault with an explosion and bury the valley under a massive flood.

Opening with a breathtaking ski chase in Siberia, A View to a Kill is the fastest Bond picture yet. Its pace has the precision of a Swiss watch and the momentum of a greyhound on the track. There is a spectacular chase up and down the Eiffel Tower and through Paris streets, which Bond finishes in a severed car on just two wheels. But none of the action prepares the viewer for the heart-stopping climax with Zorin’s dirigible tangled in the cables on top of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. For all its similarities to earlier episodes—deadly villains and gorgeous women—A View to a Kill is a little different. It is less gadget-ridden, and Bond relies more on old-fashioned know-how: trapped underwater in a car, he escapes and breathes through the tire valve while waiting for his would-be assassins to leave. The world’s technological advances have caught up with Bond, but they never render him obsolete.

The Bond movies operate on a level much deeper than their dazzling surfaces: they represent assurance in a world laden with global anxiety. And not only does goodness win out, it does so with style and humor. The movies are fantasies of idealism in which even the hero’s sins are turned into delicious double entendres. “Did you sleep well?” asks Zorin. “A little restlessly,” replies Bond after a night in May Day’s arms. “But I finally got off.” Their comic-book characters, the good ones that is, are especially alluring—dashing, talented and impervious to danger. Most of all, Bond is a gentleman—a chivalrous knight who has time-travelled. When he saves the “good girl” of A View to a Kill and holds her in his arms on top of the Golden Gate, it is a sublime romantic gesture. It is true that Roger Moore is showing his age (57) in the role, but there are plenty of tunes left in his violin. James Bond is still a virtuoso, with a licence to thrill.

LAWRENCE O’TOOLE

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies completes filming scenes with Paris Carver.
Actress Teri Hatcher was three months pregnant at the time.

2011: Orion re-releases the fourteen John Gardner Bond novels in the UK. Plus two novelizations.

2020: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #5.

Comic Book Preview – James Bond #5

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https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2020/06/comic-book-preview-james-bond-5/

June 10, 2020 by Gary Collinson

Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #5 this coming Wednesday; check out a preview of the issue here…

Fakes are everywhere. 007 has no clue who to trust. His training and intuition are all that stand between the shadows and the light.

By VITA AYALA (Morbius, Gamora), DANNY LORE (Queen Of Bad Dreams) and ERICA D’URSO (Captain Marvel).

RichardTheBruce

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.

Opinion of the day.

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Trevor Howard

Peter Finch

Richard Todd

Donald Sinden

1963: From Russia With Love films the gypsy camp action.
1964: 鐵金剛勇破 間諜網 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò jiàndié wǎng, or Iron King Spynet) released in Hong Kong.

1989: Trevor Leighton photographs Timothy Dalton.

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)

2021: Summer season begins for James Bond World in Sölden.

James Bond Cinematic Installation
007 ELEMENTS

James Bond World in
Sölden

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https://007elements.soelden.com/home.html

007 ELEMENTS is a world-first — a cinematic installation dedicated to the world of
James Bond.

The name 007 ELEMENTS reflects the visitor journey through a series of galleries, each distilling the craft of the signature elements that define a James Bond film. The installation focusses on Spectre, which was shot in Sölden and also features other titles in the long-running Bond film franchise.

007 ELEMENTS guides visitors on a journey through a series of high-tech, interactive galleries, each distilling the craft of the signature elements that define a James Bond film — the beautiful title sequences and dramatic scores; the jaw-dropping action sequences; the cars, gadgets and technology; the breath-taking locations and iconic studio sets and lastly, a host of compelling characters.

Summer Season starts on Friday, 11. June 2021.

Open daily 9.00am - 4.30pm.
(Closing day every Monday until 21.06. & from 06.09.)

007 ELEMENTS | a James Bond cinematic installation | Sölden, Austria | Fullversion


007 Elements Opening - James Bond Kinoinstallation am Gaislachkogl / Sölden

2021: Gourmet restaurant ice Q opens for the season in Sölden, Tyrol.

Gourmet restaurant ice Q in Sölden, Tyrol
SOPHISTICATED GOURMET DELIGHTS & GREAT MOMENTS

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https://www.iceq.at/en/

Welcome at Austria’s highest located toque-rated gourmet restaurant ice Q in Sölden, 3,048 metres above sea level. Surrounded by over 250 superb three-thousand metre mountains. Where freedom reaches for the stars. Where the skies are so close that you want to touch them. At the spectacular shooting location for the James Bond SPECTRE movie.

Where sophisticated gourmet delights combine with fine wines and dreamy panoramas to create one exceptional symbiosis. In the ice Q gourmet restaurant and in the ice Q Wine & Tapas Lounge, which has a panorama terrace, you get to re-experience what is unique.

In the mountain restaurant ice Q in Sölden – belonging to the 5-star hotel “Das Central” and awarded 2020 by Gault Millau with 2 toques – you get to feel life with all your senses. Right at the Gaislachkoglbahn in Sölden. For the most exclusive break in the Austrian Alps.

Opening hours - summer 2021

ice Q GOURMETRESTAURANT

• 11 June 2021 until 03 October 2021
• CLOSED: Monday 14 June I Monday 21 June I from 6 September every Monday!
• Open from 9 am to 4 pm
• Warm meals served from 11.30 am to 3 pm

CONTACT & RESERVATIONS
Phone: 0043 664 96 09 368
E-Mail: [email protected]

LOCATION & GETTING HERE
Right next to the mountain station of the Gaislachkogl cable car in Sölden. Car parking available at the valley station of the Gaislachkogl cable car.
*******
Cable car ride (return-trip) is included in the Ötztal Inside Summer Card.

2023: The Music of James Bond at Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland.

The Music of James Bond

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https://www.usherhall.co.uk/whats-on/music-james-bond

7:30pm, Sun 11 Jun 2023

This celebratory concert will take you on a journey not to be forgotten and is licensed to thrill! Showcasing the best Bond themes and songs from across the last six decades, it is set to be a great evening. Featuring the sensational International Film Orchestra and two exceptional vocalists, nobody does this better! Guaranteed to leave you shaken and stirred!

Matthew Hopkins– Conductor
Paul Pashley and Louise Dearman – Vocalists

PROGRAMME
Includes the iconic James Bond theme, plus songs from:

• You Only Live Twice
• GoldenEye
• Live and Let Die
• From Russia With Love
• Quantum of Solace
• The World Is Not Enough
• Goldfinger
• A View To a Kill
• Thunderball
• Skyfall
• For Your Eyes Only
• The Spy Who Loved Me
• Moonraker
• The Living Daylights
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service
• Spectre
• Licence To Kill
• Diamonds are Forever

Book now
Prices
£38.50 | £35.75 | £30.25 - includes the 10% b/fee

All telephone and online bookings are subject to a non-refundable £1.50 transaction fee

Details
Venue:
Usher Hall
Categories: Film/Music Light Entertainment
Door time: 6:30pm

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2023: Takarazuka Revue Cosmos Troupe “Casino Royale－My Name’s Bond” live and re-streaming.

Takarazuka Revue Cosmos Troupe
“Casino Royale －My Name’s Bond－”

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https://beyondlive.com/contents/241

Takarazuka Revue Cosmos Troupe

Event Schedule
11. Jun. 2023. 13:30 (KST)

※ You can enter the Venue 10 minutes before the live starts.

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Concert Information
* This performance is not available for purchase and viewing in Japan.

“Casino Royale ~My name is Bond~” written and directed by Shuichiro Koike is a work that describes the hidden conspiracy in the background of a gorgeous casino.
The cold and strong Suzuho Makaze as James Bond, and the gorgeous and romantic musical stage productions unique to Takarazuka Revue. You can enjoy all these by watching on Beyond LIVE.

This last performance at the Tokyo Takarazuka Theater in Tokyo will be the last stage of the top pair Suzuho Makaze and Hana Jun who left the Takarazuka Revue Cosmos Troupe.

【What is Takarazuka Revue?】
Takarazuka Revue is an all-female revue troupe with a history of more than 100 years.
There are five troupes: Flower, Moon, Snow, Star, and Cosmos. They perform throughout the year in various locations in Japan, mainly in two dedicated theaters.

Most of the performances consist of a musical play and a dance show. Takarazuka Revue perform a wide range of genres, including original works by Takarazuka's in-house director, works based on manga, movies, literature, and foreign musicals, as well as re-performances of popular plays.

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한국어, English, 简体中文, 繁體中文, español, Tiếng Việt, bahasa Indonesia, ไทย,Tagalog, français

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2023: James Bond Outdoor Movie Series screens On Her Majesty's Secret Service at Hemisfair, San Antonio, Texas.

James Bond Outdoor Movie Series

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https://www.ksat.com/entertainment/calendars/?nav=false#!/details/James-Bond-Outdoor-Movie-Series/10430418/2022-06-25T20

Saturday, June 25, 2022 , 8:00pm-10:00pm

Location
Hemisfair
434 S Alamo St
San Antonio, TX
(210) 709-4750

Description
Outdoor movies shaken, not stirred, featuring one film from each actor who has played James Bond. Movie at dusk. Bring picnics, lawn chairs and blankets! Hosted by Slab Cinema.

June 4 – Dr. No
June 11 – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
June 18 – The Spy Who Loved me
June 25 – The Living Daylights
July 2 – Golden Eye
July 9 – Skyfall

Visit Hemisfair
Event Contact
(210) 709-4750

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June 12th

1914: William Lundigan is born--Syracuse, New York.
(He dies 20 December 1975--Duarte, California.)

William Lundigan,Actor,Dead; Made
125 Films Over 38 Years

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https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/22/archives/william-lundigan-actor-dead-made-125-films-over-38-years.html

December 22, 1975, Page 31

William Lundigan, who appeared in more than 125 films during his 38‐year career in Hollywood, died yesterday after a long illness in the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, a suburb of Los Angeles. He was 61 years old and lived in West Los Angeles.

Despite his active career in Hollywood, in which he appeared in an average a more than three films a year, including a handful of starring roles, critical acclaim largely eluded the lean, sandy‐haired, blue‐eyed actor.

A Critic's Description
A critic for The New York Times wrote 25 years ago, “He is more suggestive of a prep school football “coach abruptly plunked down in the middle of the Rose Bowl, in the pink, but dot quite seasoned to the shouting.”

In the 1940's and 50's, Mr. Lundigan played the male counterpart to the‐girl‐nextdoor, a role that, brought stardom to such actresses as Susan Haywood, Dorothy McGuire, Jane Greer and Jeanne Crain, all of whom he appeared with.

In 1951, after he appeared opposite Miss Haywood in “I'd Climb the Highest Mountain,” the story of a Methodist circuit rider in the hills of Georgia, Mr. Lundigan described his first years in Hollywood.

After he signed a contract with Universal Pictures in 1937, “nothing much happened,” he said in an interview.

“I was at Warners and Metro for two years each in pictures like ‘Dodge City,’ The Fighting Sixty‐ninth’ and ‘The Old Maid.’

“I was always turning, up as Olivia de Havilland's weak brother. Well, I got in a rut—that old bugaboo, type‐casting —and made one quickie after another.”

Mr. Lundigan was born in Syracuse, where he worked as a salesman in his father's shoe store. The elder Mr. Lundigan also owned the building that housed the local radio station, WFBL, and the actor‐to‐be often filled in as an announcer between stints as a pre‐law student at Syracuse University.

After 13 years as an announcer, Mr. Lundigan was heard by a visiting film man, who was impressed by his. crisp, resonant bass voice. He was sent to a movie studio in Astoria, Queens, for a screen test and soon he was in Hollywood.

“In, but not inside,” he was to recall years later.

After making “Salute to the Marines,” in 1942, he was drafted into the Marines and served two and one‐half years, mainly with the First Division in the**

Pacific. With Hedy Lamarr

After the war, the, actor tried freelancing, with little success. The one exception was 11 supporting role in “Dishonored Lady,” with Hedy Lamarr and his good friend, Dennis O'Keefe, with whom he often went duck hunting.

Two years later. Mr. Lundigan was cast at the Elia Kazan film “Pinky,” starring Jeanne Crain. Other films include “The Man Who Talked Too Much,” “The Case of the Black Parrott,” “Sunday Punch,” “The Fabulous Dorseys” and “Mother Didn't Tell Me.”

Mr. Lundigan was later host for the television series “Climax” and “Shower of the Stars.”

He leaves his wife, the former Rena Morgan; a daughter, Anastacia, and two brothers, Robert and John.

William Lundigan (1914–1975)

Actor | Soundtrack
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1927: Yaroslav Horak is born--Harbin, Manchuria.
(He dies 24 November 2020 at age 93--Sydney, Australia.)

In Memoriam: James Bond comic artist Yaroslav
Horak

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By John Freeman on December 5, 2020

We’re sorry to report the passing of James Bond newspaper strip artist Yaroslav Horak, who passed late last month, aged 93. He passed away peacefully at his rest home in Australia, after a decade-long battle with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Born in Manchuria to the son of a Russian mother and Czech father in 1927, Yaroslav was renowned for his dynamic black and white art for James Bond 007, which he drew for the Daily Express from 1966 to 1977, taking over from John McLusky.

James Bond – The Man with the Golden Gun

Horak and his family migrated to Sydney, Australia before World War Two, first working as an artist as a portrait painter but switching to illustration for the larger Australian magazine publishers. His appreciation for storytelling, art and adventure led him into writing and illustrating comic strips, and became one of Australian’s most prolific cartoonists, producing thousands of pages of comics in Australia before moving to England in 1962.

In his detailed biography on Comics Down Under Kevin Patrick notes Horak’s first published comics work, “Grey Thorne, Counter Espionage Agent”, appeared in Frank Johnson Publications’ Gem Comics in 1947.

He created his first recurring character, “Rick Davis, Special Correspondent”, as a supporting feature in H.J. Edwards’ top-selling Action Comic. This was followed by “The Skyman”, which ran in both Action Comic and John Dixon’s Tim Valour Comic. This aviation-themed series was the first comic to carry the artist’s Anglicised by-line, “Larry Horak”.

(Documenting the holdings of Horak’s held by the National Library of Australia, Liesl Mitchell notes it was publisher John Edwards who gave Horak the name “Larry” by which he is also known. This was not to the artist’s liking and he only managed to shed this imposed name when he moved to Europe).

Art from Jet Fury #17 via Pikitia Press

Horak’s first solo comic book, Mr Combat, for Elmsdale Publications, was published in 1950, but his “globetrotting crime-buster” was cancelled after just three issues. But “Jet Fury”, a series which began as a supporting feature in Michael Chance Comic, about a masked aviator who flew to global trouble-spots aboard the Comet, an “anti-gravity” jet, firmly established his reputation as a comics artist. Its popularity led to the title being re-named as Jet Fury Comic with its 16th issue in 1951.

Other early credits include The Mask – The Man of Many Faces for Atlas Publications – but Comics Down Under notes the ran foul of Queensland’s Literature Board of Review, which objected to the character’s full-face mask, and imposed a state-wide sales ban on the comic, forcing Atlas Publications to reluctantly cancel the title with its third issue in 1954.

Disillusioned, Horak turned to newspaper strips, creating “Captain Fortune“, running in Sydney’s Sun-Herald from December 1957 until July 1962; and drawing “Mike Steel – Desert Rider“, for Woman’s Day magazine, written by editor Keith Findlay (under the pseudonym “Roger Rowe”), running from August 1962 until January 1969.

Moving to England in 1963, he secured work from DC Thomson his known credits including “Johny Hop” for The Victor, telling the adventures of Constable Bill Lennox and his Aboriginal tracker companion, Wally Omes, in Outback Australia in 1964, followed by “The Bent Copper” for The Hornet, about ex-Scotland Yard detective John Bright, who sought revenge against the criminal who framed him for a crime he did not commit, published in 1965.

Between 1963 and 1966, he also drew stories for Fleetway’s War Picture Library and Battle Picture Library, before replacing John McLusky on the James Bond newspaper strip, at the suggestion of writer Peter O’Donnell, drawing some 33 adventures starring the secret agent between 1966 and 1984.

Horak’s take on the secret agent resembled Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan, long before either actor took up the role on the big screen.

He first drew adaptations of The Spy Who Loved Me, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy, The Hildebrand Rarity, and The Living Daylights, followed by an adaptation of Colonel Sun (the Bond novel written by Kingsley Amis).

It was Horak’s acclaimed adaptation of The Man with the Golden Gun, published between January 1966 and September 1966, that led to writer Jim Lawrence being given permission by the Fleming Trust to write original Bond stories for Horak to draw, including River of Death, Trouble Spot and The Girl Machine.

Horak returned to Australia in 1975, drawing a newspaper strip adaptation of the Australian TV show Cop Shop for Sydney’s Sun-Herald, which ran from 1980 to 1983, collected in a tie-in magazine.

His final comics project was his own – the SF series, “Andea”, published by Australia’s Daily Mirror, centring on a glamorous female extra-terrestrial who travelled to Australia from the distant planet Xavax.

“‘Andea’ showcased Horak’s storytelling skills to brilliant effect,” notes Kevin Patrick, “with his intricate plots, fantastic characters, and exquisite artwork demonstrating his complete mastery of the medium throughout the series’ seven-year run. It was a fitting end to Yaroslav Horak’s incomparable career as one of Australia’s great comic artists.”

Refocusing on painting in later life, Horak was awarded the Ledger of Honour in recognition of his contributions to Australian comics, as part of the Ledger Awards for 2018.

Our sympathies to his family at this time, who requested that donations in his memory be made to Dementia Australia.

Yaroslav Horak, artist, born 12th June 1927, died 24th November 2020. Survived by his wife, Jacqueline and children Anton, Natasha and Damon

Comics Down Under

Yaroslav Horak: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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http://comicsdownunder.blogspot.com/2015/06/yaroslav-horak-portrait-of-artist-as.html

While recently browsing through a box of old magazines and newspapers in an antiques shop, I came across a tattered and torn copy of The News, a tabloid newspaper produced by the Australian Journalists Association and the Printing Industry Employees' Union during a wartime industrial dispute with Sydney Newspaper Proprietors' Association. This copy of The News, dated Tuesday, 17 October 1944, caught my eye because it contained a brief profile of a talented young high-school student from Sydney, Yaroslav Horak (See image). The text of the article reads as follows:

Sixteen-year-old Russian, Yaroslav Horak, of Centennial Park, pupil of St Mary's Cathedral High School, displays a poster he has entered in the Australia-wide Second Victory Loan School contests. Born in Manchuria, Yaroslav came to Australia four years ago. He has since learnt to speak English fluently.

Yaroslav Horak, of course, went on to become a talented and highly sought-after comic book artist in Australia following World War Two, creating such popular characters as Jet Fury (originally a back-up feature in Michael Chance Comics), along with The Mask, which was controversially banned by Queensland's Literature Board of Review in 1954, at the height of anti-comics hysteria in Australia (A comprehensive interview with Yaroslav Horak was published in the Australian Cartoonists' Association's Inkspot magazine in 2009).

Emigrating to Great Britain in the 1960s, Horak worked for British comics publishers, such as IPC's popular Battle Picture Library series, and went on to succeed John McLusky as the illustrator of the James Bond comic strip appearing in The Daily Express newspaper (An informative profile of Horak's work on James Bond appears on the Dave Karlen Original Art Blog).

Posted 25th June 2015 by Kevin Patrick

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Yaroslav Horak on James Bond

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http://davekarlenoriginalartblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/yaroslav-horak-on-james-bond.html

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Russian born Yaroslav Horak began his early career as a portrait sketch artist, but soon switched to illustration for the larger Australian magazine publishers after migrating to Sydney. His successful comic series The Mask, ran afoul with Victoria's State censors, but was soon followed by his daily outback adventure strip Mike Steel for Sydney's, The Woman's Day. A quick talent for animation and storyboards also kept Horak busy on many different projects. When given the James Bond strip in 1965, Horak's adaptation of The Man with the Golden Gun was highly praised in the new direction he approached the series. The syndicate was so pleased with their creative team that Jim Lawrence was given permission by the Fleming Trust to produce original stories for Horak to draw. Overall they worked on thirty-three thrilling Bond tales for the Daily Express and other various newspaper syndicates in Europe.

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In the UK recently he presented Pierce Brosnan with a portrait of the "Brosnan Bond", at a UK fan club occasion, in Horak's new rough style. I have a full size copy of it and he also did one of Ursulla Andress, which he didn't get to present to her for some reason, the large original ink on paper is of her in a bikini depicted from Dr. No. with two diving knives.

Yaroslav Horak

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaroslav_Horak

War Picture Library

WPL 214 Rough Justice 1963
WPL 303 Death Or Dishonour 1965
WPL 304 Battle Drill 1965
WPL 315 Cross For Courage 1965
WPL 323 Passage Of Arms 1966
WPL 648 The Curse 1971
BPL 156 The Savage Sands 1964
BPL 173 The Stronghold 1964
BPL 190 Killers Code 1965
BPL 197 Gun Crazy 1965
BPL 231 Victory Cry 1965

James Bond strips

Title | Writer | Published date | Serial no.
The Man with the Golden Gun | Jim Lawrence 10 January 1966 – 9 September 1966 1-209
The Living Daylights | Jim Lawrence 12 September 1966 – 12 November 1966 210-263
Octopussy | Jim Lawrence 14 November 1966 – 27 May 1967 264-428
The Hildebrand Rarity | Jim Lawrence 29 May 1967 – 16 December 1967 429-602
The Spy Who Loved Me | Jim Lawrence 18 December 1967 – 3 October 1968 603-815
The Harpies | Jim Lawrence 10 October 1968 – 23 June 1969 816-1037
River Of Death | Jim Lawrence 24 June 1969 – 29 November 1969 1038–1174
Colonel Sun | Jim Lawrence 1 December 1969 – 28 August 1970 1175–1393
The Golden Ghost | Jim Lawrence 21 August 1970 – 16 January 1971 1394–1519
Fear Face | Jim Lawrence 18 January 1971 – 20 April 1971 1520–1596
Double Jeopardy | Jim Lawrence 21 April 1971 – 28 August 1971 1597–1708
Starfire | Jim Lawrence 30 August 1971 – 24 December 1971 1709–1809
Trouble Spot | Jim Lawrence 28 December 1971 – 10 June 1972 1810–1951
Isle Of Condors | Jim Lawrence 12 June 1972 – 21 October 1972 1952–2065
The League Of Vampires | Jim Lawrence 25 October 1972 – 28 February 1973 2066–2172
Die With My Boots On | Jim Lawrence 1 March 1973 – 18 June 1973 2173–2256
The Girl Machine | Jim Lawrence 19 June 1973 – 3 December 1973 2257–2407
Beware Of Butterflies | Jim Lawrence 4 December 1973 – 11 May 1974 2408–2541
The Nevsky Nude | Jim Lawrence 13 May 1974 – 21 September 1974 2542–2655
The Phoenix Project | Jim Lawrence 23 September 1974 – 18 February 1975 2656–2780
The Black Ruby Caper | Jim Lawrence 19 February 1975 – 15 July 1975 2781–2897
Till Death Do Us Apart | Jim Lawrence 7 July 1975 – 14 October 1975 2989-2983
The Torch-Time Affair | Jim Lawrence 15 October 1975 – 15 January 1976 2984-3060
Hot-Shot | Jim Lawrence 16 January 1976 – 1 June 1976 3061-3178
Nightbird | Jim Lawrence 2 June 1976 – 4 November 1976 3179-3312
Ape Of Diamonds | Jim Lawrence 5 November 1976 – 22 January 1977 3313-3437
When The Wizard Awakes | Jim Lawrence 30 January 1977 – 22 May 1977 1-54
Sea Dragon | Jim Lawrence 1977 55-192
Death Wing | Jim Lawrence 1977-1978 193-354
The Xanadu Connection | Jim Lawrence 1978 355-468
Shark Bait | Jim Lawrence 1978-1979 469-636
Snake Goddess | Jim Lawrence 1983-1984 822-893
Double Eagle | Jim Lawrence 1984 894-965

1958: Ian Fleming writes Naomi Burton regarding his pursuit of a Bond television opportunity.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
Chapter 11 - Emotional Turmoil

On 12 June he wrote to Naomi Burton telling her he was “on the edge
of a vast television deal” which would keep him occupied for the next
eighteen months. He asked her to tell her colleague Jo Stewart that he
would be out of the television market for the whole of that period. He
subsequently informed Stewart that because of his commitment to CBS,
he could not proceed with the deal she was negotiating over Dr No, since,
for the time being at least, he needed to retain al his television rights.

At the end of June he few to New York to finalize arrangements with
CBS. He was clutching a proposal for thirteen episodes (one of which
centered on the Monte Carlo casino), together with some suggestions about
how James Bond should be played. He counselled Hubell Robinson against
introducing “too much stage Englishness. There should, I think, be no
monocles, moustaches, bowler hats, bobbies or other ‘Limey’ gimmicks.
There should be no blatant English slang, a minimum of public-school
ties and accents, and subsidiary characters should generally speak with a
Scots or Irish accent. The Secret Service should be presented as a tough,
modern organization . . . “ and Bond as a “blunt instrument wielded by a
Government Department”. Ian’s memo for Robinson was interesting for
its general comments about how to communicate Bond to an increasingly
astute and well-educated audience. He said that in his recent discussions
about strip cartoons, he had persuaded the Daily Express that “the action
can be speeded up far more than its usual in this ‘art’ form. But, in
this speeding up of the action and the leaving of much to the reader’s
imagination, I suggested that the artist should linger over the physical details
and perhaps devote as much as four boxes to the details of, for instance,
a particular gun.” This mannered pictorial style reflected what Ian was
trying to do in hiss books. Indeed, in an interesting commentary on his
style, he told Hubell Robinson, “It is the gimmicks in my books, rather
than the more or less straightforward plots, that stay in people’s minds.”

1958: Ian Fleming writes Bond television series outlines 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.

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

https://www.popoptiq.com/isle-of-condors/




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

Kondorernas ö (Isle of Condors)

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

James Bond Agent 007 no. 28: “Isle of Condors” (1974)
"Kondorernes ø"

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

Patti LaBelle - If You Asked Me To (Official Video) (3:52)


Patti Labelle on Tonight Show (4:08)

2012: Penguin publishes My Dad Was Nearly James Bond by Des Bishop.

My Dad Was Nearly James Bond
Des Bishop

See the complete article here:

https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/my-dad-was-nearly-james-bond-9780241956502

A son's funny, frank and moving story of the lessons his father taught
him

For years acclaimed comedian Des Bishop wanted to write a show about his father. Mike Bishop was a model and actor who gave up that life to become a hard-working man of the suburbs - a good husband, a caring father, a responsible citizen. Still, he sometimes talked wistfully about the glamourous life he might have had. But after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer in late 2009, Mike's regrets about his fantasy other life crumbled. He cherished his family and they came together to surround him with love, laughter, tears and talk. Lots of talk.

The insights that emerged during Mike Bishop's illness became the show his son always wanted to stage. He and his father collaborated on My Dad Was Nearly James Bond - a hilarious, outrageous and moving celebration of what Des calls 'the heroics of fatherhood'. The show has attracted rave reviews and sell-out audiences around the world.

Mike Bishop died in February 2011. Now Des has written a memoir inspired by the stage show, by the startling discoveries he made about his father's background before he died, and by his own realization of what it means to finally grow up. The book is a funny, wise and unforgettable story of a father, a son and what really matters.

2019: Sotheby's auctions (one of) the most famous cars in the world at Monterey, Canada.

The Most Famous Car In The World: RM Sotheby's Presents James
Bond Aston Martin DB5

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https://www.conceptcarz.com/a32413/rm-sothebys-james-bond-aston-martin-db5.aspx

June 12, 2019 by RM Sothebys

THE MOST FAMOUS CAR IN THE WORLD: RM
SOTHEBY'S PRESENTS JAMES BOND 007 ASTON
MARTIN DB5

CAR FEATURES 13 FUNCTIONING BOND
MODIFICATIONS AS SEEN IN GOLDFINGER AND
THUNDERBALL BOND DB5 LEADS 'AN EVENING WITH
ASTON MARTIN' AT MONTEREY SALE

• RM Sotheby's offers nearly unrepeatable opportunity to acquire an original 1965 Aston Martin DB5 James Bond Car at record-setting Monterey auction

• DB5 is one of two examples outfitted with John Stears-designed Bond gadgets from new and used on the North American promotional tour for Thunderball

• Beautifully restored, all 13 Bond modifications are fully-functioning, including a Browning .30 caliber machine gun in each fender, wheel-hub mounted tire-slashers, smoke screen dispensers, revolving license plates, and more

• Experience the gadgetry and performance that the DB5 afforded 007 in a film trailer starring Florence Walker: VIDEO

• Additional information and updated list of entries for Monterey sale available at rmsothebys.com

The Most Famous Car In The World: RM Sotheby's Presents James Bond Aston Martin DB5

BLENHEIM, Ontario (12 June 2019) – RM Sotheby's, the official auction house of Aston Martin, has announced 'the most famous car in the world' and perhaps the most iconic Aston Martin of all time to lead 'An Evening with Aston Martin', a special single-marque sale session at the company's 2019 Monterey auction on 15 August. RM Sotheby's will present a 1965 Aston Martin DB5, one of just three surviving examples commissioned in period by Eon Productions and fitted with MI6 Q Branch specifications as pictured in Goldfinger.

No one could have predicted the fabulously successful multi-decade synergy that would develop when production designer Ken Adam and special effects man John Stears visited Aston Martin's Newport-Pagnell plant in late 1963. The two men were on a mission to source a pair of the latest Aston Martin models for use in Eon Productions' third adaptation of an Ian Fleming novel, again about the MI6 superspy with a license to kill, James Bond. The film was called Goldfinger.

Two near-identical cars were built and loaned to Eon Productions for filming, with each fulfilling various roles; one for stunt driving and chase sequences and therefore needing to be lightweight and fast, and the other for interior shots and close-ups, to be equipped with functional modifications created by Stears. As Desmond Llewelyn's legendary weapons-master Q would go on to explain to Sean Connery's 007, the Snow Shadow Gray-painted DB5 was equipped with front and rear hydraulic over-rider rams on the bumpers, a Browning .30 caliber machine gun in each fender, wheel-hub mounted tire-slashers, a raising rear bullet-proof screen, an in-dash radar tracking scope, oil, caltrop and smoke screen dispensers, revolving license plates, and a passenger-seat ejection system. Although never used during the film, the car was also equipped with a telephone in the driver's door to communicate with MI6 headquarters and a hidden compartment under the driver's seat containing several weapons.

The smash success of Goldfinger was also a success for Aston Martin, which saw DB5 sales surge to fuel an unprecedented level of production. The producers at Eon also took notice of the enormous appeal and potential marketing opportunities. In preparation for Thunderball's release, the company ordered two more DB5 saloons, receiving chassis nos. DB5/2008/R, the example on offer at RM Sotheby's Monterey sale, and DB5/2017/R. The two cars were fitted with all of Stears' Goldfinger modifications and were shipped to the United States for promotional duties for Thunderball.

Reached through his son, Stephane Connery ahead of the sale, legendary actor Sean Connery, who originally portrayed James Bond on film in both Goldfinger and Thunderball said: 'These DB5s are amazing – I remember the Furka Pass tire shredding as well as the promotional events with these cars – they have become increasingly iconic since Goldfinger and Thunderball, in fact I bought a very fine DB5 myself relatively recently.'

Following the tour, the two cars were no longer required as the next two Bond films debuted with different, more current automobiles in the hero roles and, accordingly, they were quietly offered for sale in 1969. The cars were soon purchased as a pair by well-known collector Anthony (now Lord) Bamford, whose British registration for chassis no. 2008/R remains on file. The Aston Martin build record lists Eon Productions as the original purchaser, with the important designation of being a '(Bond Car)' noted.

Bamford then sold DB5/2008/R to B.H. Atchley, the owner of the Smokey Mountain Car Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The Aston Martin was featured as the museum's centerpiece, remaining in a pristine state of display for 35 years, receiving regular start-ups for exercise. In 2006, RM Sotheby's (previously RM Auctions) was privileged to offer this very Bond DB5 for public sale, in a largely unrestored state.

Since that time, a well-documented, no-expense spared restoration by Switzerland's esteemed Roos Engineering was completed. Roos Engineering is one of 13 specialist facilities whom Aston Martin have appointed as official Heritage Specialists. Not only were the chassis and body completely refinished to proper standards, but all thirteen of the John Stears-designed Bond modifications were properly refurbished to function as originally built.

Barney Ruprecht, Car Specialist, RM Sotheby's comments: 'No other car in history has played a more important leading role on film and in pop culture than the Aston Martin DB5. The DB5 is the iconic cornerstone of a marketing relationship that still exists to this day—with the model's collectible status rooted largely in its 007 fame—and we look forward to exciting car and film enthusiasts alike in the lead up to the auction. This is an unbelievably rare chance to play secret agent in a car that offers incredible performance and style in its own right and we're honoured to offer the Bond DB5 alongside our partners at Aston Martin.'

The first Stears-modified car has been lost since 1997, narrowing the number of surviving examples to just three. The car on offer is one of only two built from new with all Bond gadgetry, and chassis no. 2008/R stands apart with its extremely minimal chain of ownership, having had just three private owners over 50 years, including a 35-year period of museum exhibition. An incredibly rare and exciting example of what has been deemed 'the most famous car in the world', the DB5 offers a highly desirable acquisition for the serious marque collector…or secret agent (Est. $4,000,000 - $6,000,000).

RM Sotheby's will display the Bond DB5 in North America this summer, with July dates to be announced. The car leads 'An Evening with Aston Martin', a special third auction evening on 15 August during RM Sotheby's flagship Monterey sale, featuring more than 30 of the world's most sought-after road-going and track-ready Aston Martin sports cars from across the marque's illustrious history. This year's Monterey sale (15-17 August) will once again present more than 120 of the world's most important motor cars in the ultimate collector car destination.

For further information on RM Sotheby's 2019 Monterey auction and to view a frequently updated list of entries, please visit rmsothebys.com. Interested consignors are invited to call RM Sotheby's global headquarters at +1 519 352 4575 to speak with a car specialist about entering an important motor car in the Monterey sale. Consignments are invited through 3 July 2019.


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