"on the set. Sellers also became unhappy with his wife's performance, straining their relationship and triggering open arguments during one of which Sellers threw a chair at Ekland. Despite these conflicts, the script was praised for its wit. Following the commercial success of ""What's New Pussycat?"", Charles Feldman again brought together Sellers and Woody Allen for his next project, ""Casino Royale"", which also starred Orson Welles; Sellers signed a $1 million contract for the film ($ in dollars). Seven screenwriters worked on the project, and filming was chaotic. To make matters worse, according to Ekland, Sellers was ""so insecure, he"
"was the first to be eliminated on 30 March placing 11th. Ekland became famous overnight as a result of her 1964 whirlwind romance and marriage to English actor and comedian, Peter Sellers, who proposed after seeing her photograph in the paper and then meeting in London. She stood by him after he suffered a series of heart attacks shortly after their marriage. Ekland was stepmother to Sellers' children Sarah and Michael (who died of a heart attack at about the same age as his father). In January 1965 they had a daughter, Victoria. The couple made three films together —"
"too, something most winningly seedy about Mr. Sellers' Clouseau, a fellow who, when he attempts to tear off his clothes in the heat of passion, gets tangled up in his necktie, and who, when he masquerades—for reasons never gone into—as Quasimodo, overinflates his hump with helium."" Sellers's performance earned him a further nomination at the 34th Golden Globe Awards. In March 1976 Sellers began dating actress Lynne Frederick, whom he married on 18 February 1977. Biographer Roger Lewis documents that of all of Sellers's wives, Frederick was the most poorly treated; Julian Upton likened it to a boxing match between"
"seeing the twenty-three-year-old model Miranda Quarry. The couple married on 24 August 1970, despite Sellers's private doubts—expressed to his agent, Dennis Selinger—about his decision to re-marry. On 20 April 1972, Sellers reunited with Milligan and Harry Secombe to record ""The Last Goon Show of All"", which was broadcast on 5 October. In May 1973, with his third marriage failing, Sellers went to the theatre to watch Liza Minnelli perform. He became entranced with Minnelli and the couple became engaged three days later, despite Minnelli's current betrothal to Desi Arnaz, Jr., and Sellers still being married. Their relationship lasted a month"
"the war, in Korea in 1953 (while under enemy attack) and in Cyprus and Libya in 1956, where she met her second husband, who was head of the British military force in Tripoli. Webb toured the British provinces in ""Jubilee Girl"" (1956), a troubled production that she, the director, the choreographer and others abandoned before it arrived in London. She next appeared as Giulietta in a 1959 television production of the musical ""Carissima"", by Eric Maschwitz with music by Hans May, starring Ginger Rogers. Webb was engaged briefly to Peter Sellers in 1951 after appearing with him on ""The Light"
"Victoria Sellers Victoria Sellers (born 20 January 1965) is a British model, actress, comedian and jewellery designer. Born in London, Sellers attended Lycée Français de Los Angeles in West Los Angeles and Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in the class of 1981. She became friends with the ""Hollywood Madam"" Heidi Fleiss in their teens. She is the only child from the marriage of actor Peter Sellers and actress Britt Ekland. A letter auctioned in 2010, one of the last documents signed by her father before his death, indicates that he was trying to increase the amount of money to"
"books. One of these, ""The Thorn Birds"", became an international best seller and one of the best selling books in history, with sales of over 30 million copies worldwide, that in 1983 inspired one of the most-watched television miniseries of all time. The success of these books enabled her to give up her medical-scientific career and to try to ""live on [her] own terms."" In the late 1970s, after stints in London and Connecticut, she settled on the isolation of Norfolk Island, off the coast of mainland Australia, where she met her husband, Ric Robinson. They married in April 1984."
"Californian, surgeon and heart specialist Dr. Barry Unger, in December 1982; they were divorced in 1991. In her last marriage, she bore her only child, Cassie Unger (born 1983). On 27 April 1994, Frederick was found dead in her West Los Angeles home, aged 39. A post-mortem failed to determine the cause of death. Her remains were cremated at Golders Green Crematorium in London and her ashes were mingled and then interred with those of her first husband, Peter Sellers. Lynne Frederick Lynne Maria Frederick (25 July 195427 April 1994) was an English film actress, known for her classical “English"
"book was released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of ""Gilligan's Island"". ""Gilligan's Island"" co-star Russell Johnson died on January 16, 2014, and Wells and Tina Louise are the only surviving cast members of the sitcom. In May 2016, Wells was named Marketing Ambassador to MeTV Network. In 2005, ""TV Guide"" ranked Wells No. 50 on its ""50 Sexiest Stars of All Time"" list. She married Larry Rosen, a talent agent, in 1962. The couple had no children and were divorced in 1967. In 2018, a GoFundMe page was set up to help Wells cope with financial trouble. Wells runs"
"Carol for Another Christmas"" was a 1964 American television movie, scripted by Rod Serling as a modernization of Charles Dickens' ""A Christmas Carol"" and a plea for global cooperation between nations. It was telecast only once, on December 28, 1964. The only TV movie directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, this was the film in which Peter Sellers gave his first performance after a series of near-fatal heart attacks in the wake of his marriage to Britt Ekland. Sellers portrayed a demagogue in an apocalyptic Christmas. Sterling Hayden, who costarred with Sellers in ""Dr. Strangelove"" earlier that year, was also featured."
"Sellers married Amanda Lomas, a nurse from Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, before they moved to the US. This marriage ended in divorce. In January 2016, he revealed that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Sellers died 23 December 2016 at the age of 61. Sellers appeared in the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced documentary film ""Before the Flood"". Sellers and his wife left the UK in 1982, moving to the United States, where he began his NASA career as a research meteorologist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Sellers's work in the field of meteorology focused primarily on computer"
"up at Grafton's public house near Victoria, owned by Jimmy Grafton, who was also a BBC script writer. The four comedians dubbed him ""KOGVOS"" (Keeper of Goons and Voice of Sanity) Grafton later edited some of the first ""Goon Shows"". In 1949, Sellers started to date Anne Howe, an Australian actress who lived in London. He proposed to her in April 1950 and the couple were married in London on 15 September 1951; their son, Michael, was born on 2 April 1954, and their daughter, Sarah, followed in 1958. Sellers's introduction to film work came in 1950, where he dubbed"
"Peter"" when she replaced Leila Williams, but she only lasted a few weeks in this role. They had two young children (Lance and Nina) when the marriage ended in divorce, due to Ellington's constant touring. Ray's son Lance Ellington is a singer who has recorded several jazz-orientated albums, and is one of the backing singers in the BBC show ""Strictly Come Dancing"". Lance Ellington also appeared in tributes to Peter Sellers, in the film ""The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"", where he played his father, and took his father's part in the Goon Show '50th Anniversary Cardboard Replica' first"
"their rifles up into the air, catch it with their left hand – always to this dum-da-da-dum, dum-da-da-dum – and then stamp their feet and fire one round, synchronising with the drums. They'd go left, right, left, right, ""shabash""! ""Hai""! Bang! Dum-da-da-dum – It was sensational!"" Milligan married his first wife, June (Marchinie) Marlow, in 1952; Peter Sellers was best man. They had three children – Laura, Seán and Síle – and divorced in 1960. He married Patricia Ridgeway (also known as Paddy) in June 1962, with George Martin as best man and the marriage produced one child, Jane Milligan"
"time Christiane studied art at the Art Students League of New York, later becoming an independent artist. The couple moved to the United Kingdom in 1961 to make ""Lolita"", and Kubrick hired Peter Sellers to star in his next film, ""Dr. Strangelove"". Sellers was unable to leave the UK, so Kubrick made Britain his permanent home thereafter. The move was quite convenient to Kubrick, since he shunned the Hollywood system and its publicity machine, and he and Christiane had become alarmed with the increase in violence in New York. In 1965 the Kubricks bought Abbots Mead on Barnet Lane, just"
"1979 film ""The Prisoner of Zenda"" starring Peter Sellers. In 1979, Quine was hired to direct another Sellers film, ""The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu"" (1980). Before the script was even completed, Quine was fired owing to ""creative differences"" he had with Sellers. Quine was married four times and had three children. His first marriage was to actress Susan Peters. They were married on November 7, 1943, at Westwood Community Church in Los Angeles. On New Year's Day 1945, the couple were on a duck hunting trip when Peters dropped her rifle. The gun discharged, hitting Peters in the"
"fourth marriage to Frederick collapsed soon after. Sellers had recently started to rebuild his relationship with his son Michael after the failure of the latter's marriage. Michael later said that ""it marked the beginning of an all-too-brief closeness between us."" Sellers admitted to his son that ""he hated so many things he had done,"" including leaving his first wife, Anne, and his infatuation with Sophia Loren. In lighter moments, Sellers had joked that his epitaph should read ""Star of stage, screen and alimony."" On 21 July 1980 Sellers arrived in London from Geneva. He checked into the Dorchester hotel, before"
"True Britt True Britt was a best-selling autobiography, published in 1980, by the actress Britt Ekland. Ekland describes her marriage with Peter Sellers, relationships with Rod Stewart and Lord Lichfield and affairs with, among others Warren Beatty and 'Count' Ascanio Cicogna, and discovering she was nearly bankrupt at a supposedly prolific time in her career. Ekland refers to Peter Sellers as 'Sellers', he in turn called her 'Britvic' She describes his obsessive behaviour and obsession with pleasing the Royal Family, both contributing factors in their ultimate divorce. ""I would squirm with embarrassment at the demeaning lengths he would stoop to"
"in 1964. But the fall-out from Cooke's death – he was shot by a motel manager in Los Angeles in December 1964 – and Bobby Womack's marriage halted their progress. In the 1960s, Cecil Womack worked primarily as a songwriter and producer. He first met Linda, who is Sam Cooke's daughter, born in 1953, when he was thirteen and she was eight. Although Linda and Cecil were close, particularly after her father's death in 1964, he married singer Mary Wells in 1967 and wrote material for her, including the hit ""The Doctor"", released on Jubilee Records. They had three children,"
"of merchandise that goes under the name of good family entertainment. Peter Sellers, with a wardrobe of old music hall clothes, a talented but aged dog named Bella and a pram he pushes around London, plays the lonely, idiosyncratic old busker. And commendably, he submerges himself sufficiently in the part to allow old Sam to have a life of his own."" The Optimists of Nine Elms The Optimists of Nine Elms, also known as The Optimists, is a 1973 British drama film starring Peter Sellers and directed by Anthony Simmons, who also wrote the 1964 novel upon which the film"
"they had one daughter, Juliet (born 1970). They divorced in 1983. In 1991, he married fellow scientist Susan Greenfield (later Baroness Greenfield). They divorced in 2005. In 2008, he married Patricia-Jean Nobes (née Brand). Peter Atkins Peter William Atkins (born 10 August 1940) is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including ""Physical Chemistry"", ""Inorganic Chemistry"", and ""Molecular Quantum Mechanics"". Atkins is also the author of a number of popular science books, including ""Atkins' Molecules"", ""Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great"
"her sons. Loren has recorded more than two dozen songs throughout her career, including a best-selling album of comedic songs with Peter Sellers; reportedly, she had to fend off his romantic advances. Partly owing to Sellers's infatuation with Loren, he split with his first wife, Anne Howe. Loren has made it clear to numerous biographers that Sellers's affections were reciprocated only platonically. This collaboration was covered in ""The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"" where actress Sonia Aquino portrayed Loren. The song ""Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?"" by Peter Sarstedt was said to have been inspired by Loren."
"the Bride"" (1957), and then began switching between the theatre and the screen. In director Pat Jackson's comedy ""Virgin Island"" (US: ""Our Virgin Island"", 1958), she appeared with John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier. She gained a British Lion contract and appeared in ""The Man Upstairs"" (1958) and as an air-hostess in ""Jet Storm"" (1959). She also made an impact on the stage in ""The Catalyst"" and in live TV drama. She later starred in ""Doctor in Love"" (1960), and as Peter Sellers's wife in ""Only Two Can Play"" (1962); Sellers was unconvinced she could manage a credible Welsh accent and"
"an album released by the couple, ""Peter & Sophia"", which reached number five in the UK Albums Chart. In 1961 Sellers made his directorial debut with ""Mr. Topaze"", in which he also starred. The film was based on the Marcel Pagnol play ""Topaze"". Sellers portrayed an ex-schoolmaster in a small French town who turns to a life of crime to obtain wealth. The film and Sellers's directorial abilities received an unenthusiastic response from the public and critics alike, and Sellers rarely referred to it again. The same year he starred in the Sidney Gilliat-directed ""Only Two Can Play"", a film"
"featured Daniel Craig. She also starred in ""Things To Do Before You're 30"" with Billie Piper, who would later marry her first cousin Laurence Fox, although in 2016 they divorced. She was cast as Lynne Frederick in the 2004 film ""The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"", which starred Geoffrey Rush in the lead role. A whole section of the film focusing on the Frederick/Sellers relationship was removed in the final edit, although she can be seen briefly in a background shot towards the end of the film. The deleted scenes with Fox can be found among the special features"
"the source of Asher's ""accidental"" reputation as a medical etymologist. They had three children: Peter Asher (born 1944), a member of the pop duo Peter & Gordon and later record producer, Jane Asher (born 1946), a film and TV actress and novelist, and Clare Asher (born 1948), a radio actress. The Asher family home above his private consulting rooms at 57 Wimpole Street was briefly notable when Paul McCartney lived there in 1964–66 during his relationship with Jane Asher. In 1964 Asher suddenly gave up his hospital post and perhaps all medical activities. He suffered from depression in later life"
"tribute, celebrating his ""outstanding achievement in filmmaking."" In 1951 he married Irish actress Constance Smith, and the couple travelled to Hollywood in the early 1950s. Forbes soon returned to the UK; he and Smith divorced in 1955. Forbes went on to marry actress Nanette Newman the same year. It was popularly believed that Roger Moore was their best man, but Newman denied this on the ""Alan Titchmarsh Show"" in 2011. The couple had two daughters: journalist Sarah Standing, who is married to actor John Standing, and television presenter Emma Forbes. Forbes was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1975, while working"
"for ""Taking a Trip to Carolina"" and received joint songwriting credits with the other Beatles for ""12-Bar Original"", ""Los Paranoias"", ""Christmas Time (Is Here Again)"", ""Suzy Parker"" from the ""Let It Be"" film, and ""Jessie's Dream"" from the ""Magical Mystery Tour"" film. When Starr married Maureen Cox in 1965, Beatles manager Brian Epstein was best man, with Starr's stepfather Harry Graves and fellow Beatle George Harrison as witnesses. Soon afterwards, the couple's matrimony became the subject of a US novelty song, ""Treat Him Tender, Maureen"", by the Chicklettes. Starr and Maureen had three children together: Zak (born 13 September 1965),"
"and writer arrested for taking part in antiwar demonstrations. Through this foundation she provided funds for King's trip to India with his wife, Coretta Scott King, to meet followers of Mahatma Gandhi whom he referred to as ""the guiding light of our technique of nonviolent social change"". During World War II, she tried to organize shows for servicemen with her friend Josh White, but they were turned down on the grounds that ""we don't book mixed company."" On December 27, 1960, she married sculptor Louis Schanker. Although she had enough money after her marriage to Reynolds, she continued to perform"
"done with ""Nine"". In 1995 ""Agenda"" brought out one of its dedicated issues: 'A Tribute to Peter Russell'. In 1959 the Grosvenor Bookshop went out of business, and he opened the Gallery Bookshop in Soho, London. He finally went bankrupt in 1963 and with the collapse of his marriage, he moved to Berlin. In 1965 he relocated to Venice. He had rooms in the Campo de la Bragola. In the mid 1970s he held a writing fellowship as poet in residence at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, where he met his second wife, Lana Sue Long, who was"
"period through illustration work for publications such as Omni and Rolling Stone, often with a science fiction theme. One such illustration, which appeared in Rolling Stone in 1975, featured science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, who later wrote in a letter to Bellows, “You gave me a reflected self or identity and I suddenly believed I was real…From the moment I saw your picture, I was changed back to my old, real self…you cured me of my identity-less sickness. This is heavy stuff, but true.” Bellows and his wife divorced in 1979. A year later, Bellows met and married Angela"
"as ""And I Love Her"", ""You Won't See Me"", and ""I'm Looking Through You"". On 25 December 1967 they announced their engagement, but they separated in early 1968. McCartney met the American photographer Linda Eastman in a club in London while still with Asher. They met again at the launch party for the Beatles' ""Sgt. Pepper"" album. In May 1968, McCartney met Eastman again in New York, and they were married on 12 March 1969. They had three children together and remained married until her death from breast cancer in 1998. McCartney appeared publicly beside Heather Mills at a party"
"each other... This kind of relationship helps establish a momentum throughout the picture... At first glance, my pictures seem well behaved, as if – that is a still life, O.K. But these things have such crazy give-and-take that I feel they get really very wild”. He married Claire Selley in November 1963. In 1964 Ben Birillo, an artist and business partner of gallery owner Paul Bianchini, contacted Wesselmann and other Pop artists with the goal of organizing ""The American Supermarket"" at the Bianchini Gallery in New York. This was an installation of a large supermarket where Pop works (Warhol's Campbell's"