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Casino Royale starts with a premise that is cheerfully cheeky: Sean Connery is an impostor. The real 007 is David Niven, now Sir James Bond, retired to a county seat. Visited by an all-star team of secret agents including William Holden, Charles Boyer and John Huston, he is persuaded to re-enter Her Majesty's Service, an experience that he soon finds simply SMERSHing. Along the way he encounters Joanna Pettet, the byproduct of his illicit union with Mata Hari; Peter Sellers, a green-gilled card shark who impersonates James Bond; Woody Allen as Jimmy Bond, James...
...David Niven and Orson Welles, Ursula Andress and Deborah Kerr, William Holden and George Raft, John Huston, Charles Boyer, Joana Pettet, Daliah Lauri, and in furtive appearances, Peter O'Toole and Jean Paul Belmondo, round out Casino Royale's company. Niven takes everything very very seriously, and has made of Sir James a proud, sensitive, prudish, retired spy in anything but the Ian Fleming tradition. He stutters too, at the start, but as if realizing it's not funny, Niven gives up this device a third of the way into the picture. Orson Welles, given one of the most thankless...
Although damage from smoke was extensive, James G. Niven '67, Darby's roommate, said that only a stereo speaker, a sofa, and a chair appeared to be irreparably damaged...
...Besides Niven and Darby, David T. Lawrence '67 and Frederick L. Dabney Jr. '69 also live in Eliot...
...apotheosis of the gallant American White Collar Girl won her an Oscar. In Magnificent Doll, she plays Dolley Madison. Forced into a role that is above her head and a script that is beneath her, she utters Dolley's immortal words to the jailed traitor Aaron Burr (David Niven): "I hope all this will make you think, Aaron...