Another Time, Another Place

During the shooting of the movie in England, Sir Sean Connery was confronted by Johnny Stompanato, an ex-marine turned mob enforcer, who was in an abusive relationship with Lana Turner. At the time, Connery and Turner got along very well, so much that when Stompanato found out about it, he suspected that they were having an affair. Stompanato, who was notorious for his jealousy and violent tendencies, then stormed to the set and threatened Connery with a gun. But he quickly disarmed Stompanato and forced him from the set. Following that incident, Stompanato was deported by Scotland Yard. Shortly after he arrived in the USA, he met his end at the hands of Turner's teenage daughter Cheryl, who fatally stabbed him in self-defence while he was beating her mother. Connery, who was filming Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) at the time of the latter incident, behaved very cautiously when he walked the streets of Los Angeles, because it was rumoured that a mobster made him responsible for Stompanatos death. That caused him to avoid the USA for several years.

The mink coat repeatedly worn by war correspondent Lana Turner is hardly the thing a person of her financial means would have been able to afford and is laughingly out of place in wartime London, and even if she did own it, would hardly have been so blatantly and casually displayed among her lesser paid co-workers, but none of them seem to notice or care.

Referenced in Thunderball (1965)