Lana Wood had an affair with Sean Connery?

Dutchfinger

Just came across this small piece of trivia concerning Lana Wood (Pleny O'Toole in DAF)

Lana Wood wrote a best-selling memoir, Natalie, A Memoir by Her Sister, in 1984. The book was also an autobiography. Among the tidbits she revealed in the book was an off-the-set affair with Sean Connery during the filming of Diamonds Are Forever.

To me this is new information. I don't know if this was true, and I'm sure this kind of stuff happens a lot more. Just thought I'd share and maybe there are people here that know more about this.

broadshoulder

Yup, and he also had an affair with Jill St John

Thunderpussy

In fact, I should come clean and let everyone know.
I'm their secret love child ! )

Holden

So that's why you're so good looking TP?

VesperMelograno

My husband works for McFarland publishing. They publish academic works mostly on pop culture. One of their big "areas" is 1960's starlets. He travels a great deal to comic book and movie conventions. He was at a movie convention years ago and was sitting alone in the halls cafeteria and Lana Wood asked to sit next to him since she too was alone. Anyway she told him all about her affair with Connery while they filmed DAF. She told my husband that she had decided to break it off and was eaten alive with worry over how to do it. Then when she did he kind of blew her off and she realized that she was just another girl. Apparently this made her chuckle.

As a sidenote she said she met with Elvis many times when he was dating her sister and she thought he was a jerk.

Dutchfinger wrote:

Just came across this small piece of trivia concerning Lana Wood (Pleny O'Toole in DAF)

Lana Wood wrote a best-selling memoir, Natalie, A Memoir by Her Sister, in 1984. The book was also an autobiography. Among the tidbits she revealed in the book was an off-the-set affair with Sean Connery during the filming of Diamonds Are Forever.

To me this is new information. I don't know if this was true, and I'm sure this kind of stuff happens a lot more. Just thought I'd share and maybe there are people here that know more about this.

Dutchfinger

VesperMelograno wrote:

My husband works for McFarland publishing. They publish academic works mostly on pop culture. One of their big "areas" is 1960's starlets. He travels a great deal to comic book and movie conventions. He was at a movie convention years ago and was sitting alone in the halls cafeteria and Lana Wood asked to sit next to him since she too was alone. Anyway she told him all about her affair with Connery while they filmed DAF. She told my husband that she had decided to break it off and was eaten alive with worry over how to do it. Then when she did he kind of blew her off and she realized that she was just another girl. Apparently this made her chuckle.

As a sidenote she said she met with Elvis many times when he was dating her sister and she thought he was a jerk.

Wow! Intresting story! Somehow I'm not suprised with Connery being like this though... Him being the symbol that he was (is), why not take advantage of it? However, he was married to Diane Cilento in that period if i'm not mistaken, right? I think she actually doubled as the swimmer for Kissy in YOLT. I do now start to wonder if he has had an affair with any of the other Bond girls as well...

Blackleiter

VesperMelograno wrote:

My husband works for McFarland publishing. They publish academic works mostly on pop culture. One of their big "areas" is 1960's starlets. He travels a great deal to comic book and movie conventions. He was at a movie convention years ago and was sitting alone in the halls cafeteria and Lana Wood asked to sit next to him since she too was alone. Anyway she told him all about her affair with Connery while they filmed DAF. She told my husband that she had decided to break it off and was eaten alive with worry over how to do it. Then when she did he kind of blew her off and she realized that she was just another girl. Apparently this made her chuckle.

As a sidenote she said she met with Elvis many times when he was dating her sister and she thought he was a jerk.

Dutchfinger wrote:

Just came across this small piece of trivia concerning Lana Wood (Pleny O'Toole in DAF)

Lana Wood wrote a best-selling memoir, Natalie, A Memoir by Her Sister, in 1984. The book was also an autobiography. Among the tidbits she revealed in the book was an off-the-set affair with Sean Connery during the filming of Diamonds Are Forever.

To me this is new information. I don't know if this was true, and I'm sure this kind of stuff happens a lot more. Just thought I'd share and maybe there are people here that know more about this.

Thanks for sharing that inside information, VM. Of course most of us are probably not surprised by this news, given Connery's sex symbol status at the time and his obviously cavalier attitude towards women. Too bad he was such a cad, at least to his wife, but he sure was a great Bond!

broadshoulder

Dutchfinger wrote:

VesperMelograno wrote:

My husband works for McFarland publishing. They publish academic works mostly on pop culture. One of their big "areas" is 1960's starlets. He travels a great deal to comic book and movie conventions. He was at a movie convention years ago and was sitting alone in the halls cafeteria and Lana Wood asked to sit next to him since she too was alone. Anyway she told him all about her affair with Connery while they filmed DAF. She told my husband that she had decided to break it off and was eaten alive with worry over how to do it. Then when she did he kind of blew her off and she realized that she was just another girl. Apparently this made her chuckle.

As a sidenote she said she met with Elvis many times when he was dating her sister and she thought he was a jerk.

Wow! Intresting story! Somehow I'm not suprised with Connery being like this though... Him being the symbol that he was (is), why not take advantage of it? However, he was married to Diane Cilento in that period if i'm not mistaken, right? I think she actually doubled as the swimmer for Kissy in YOLT. I do now start to wonder if he has had an affair with any of the other Bond girls as well...

He was married to Cilento. They don't split up until 1973. God knows what condition their marriage was in.

He married Michelle Roquebraune in 1975

VesperMelograno

My friend Tom wrote this book:
http://astore.amazon.com/sixtiescinema-20/detail/0786411945
I will ask him about Bond girls specifically. Knowing him he knows all kinds of good dirt! I will relay any good tidbits.

AlphaOmegaSin

Connery's Approval of slapping Women didn't really help either

Blackleiter

AlphaOmegaSin wrote:

Connery's Approval of slapping Women didn't really help either

True.

Virgil37

VesperMelograno wrote:

My husband works for McFarland publishing. They publish academic works mostly on pop culture. One of their big "areas" is 1960's starlets. He travels a great deal to comic book and movie conventions. He was at a movie convention years ago and was sitting alone in the halls cafeteria and Lana Wood asked to sit next to him since she too was alone. Anyway she told him all about her affair with Connery while they filmed DAF. She told my husband that she had decided to break it off and was eaten alive with worry over how to do it. Then when she did he kind of blew her off and she realized that she was just another girl. Apparently this made her chuckle.

As a sidenote she said she met with Elvis many times when he was dating her sister and she thought he was a jerk.

Dutchfinger wrote:

Just came across this small piece of trivia concerning Lana Wood (Pleny O'Toole in DAF)

Lana Wood wrote a best-selling memoir, Natalie, A Memoir by Her Sister, in 1984. The book was also an autobiography. Among the tidbits she revealed in the book was an off-the-set affair with Sean Connery during the filming of Diamonds Are Forever.

To me this is new information. I don't know if this was true, and I'm sure this kind of stuff happens a lot more. Just thought I'd share and maybe there are people here that know more about this.

Great story! thanks! Lana Wood is probably the most memorable Bond girl with such a little screen time.

Virgil37

Rumour has it Connery has been a big womanizer until very late in his life, married or not married.

Thunderpussy

I'd say Connery could of had any woman on the planet if he'd wanted.
and from the sound of things, he did try. )

AlphaOmegaSin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8UnS2ns6s

I think this is what Connery would say )

Blackleiter

Thunderpussy wrote:

I'd say Connery could of had any woman on the planet if he'd wanted.

True enough - except for my wife! Why would she want Connery when she had a gem like me?

(Okay, fantasy time over - time to get back to reality! ))

Thunderpussy

) on another thread, a comment was made that Connery was out
Of shape for YOLT, so by DAF, he was older and out of shape and yet
Still pulled Lana Wood. )

Blackleiter

Thunderpussy wrote:

) on another thread, a comment was made that Connery was out
Of shape for YOLT, so by DAF, he was older and out of shape and yet
Still pulled Lana Wood. )

Hell, Connery probably could have pulled the DAF version of Lana Wood by the time he did The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen! )

Thunderpussy

I know even in "Extraordinary Gentleman " I still heard the sigh sound
My wife makes when a " Hunk" appears. )

chrisisall

Thunderpussy wrote:

I know even in "Extraordinary Gentleman " I still heard the sigh sound
My wife makes when a " Hunk" appears. )

I may be in a minority here, but I REALLY like that movie. The way I REALLY like TWINE.
Last movie appearances of Sean & Desmond....

Thunderpussy

Well, I don't dislike it as some do, and ( as always) Connery is fantastic in it. {[]

Virgil37

Thunderpussy wrote:

) on another thread, a comment was made that Connery was out
Of shape for YOLT, so by DAF, he was older and out of shape and yet
Still pulled Lana Wood. )

I made the comment, but Connery out of shape is still better looking than most, so it's only natural that he pulled Lana Wood (or Natalie, or both). I never met him, but everyone who did, men and women, say that he oozes magnetism.

Virgil37

chrisisall wrote:

Thunderpussy wrote:

I know even in "Extraordinary Gentleman " I still heard the sigh sound
My wife makes when a " Hunk" appears. )

I may be in a minority here, but I REALLY like that movie. The way I REALLY like TWINE.
Last movie appearances of Sean & Desmond....

...I like the "Extraordinary Gentlemen". Quite a lot in fact.

chrisisall

Virgil37 wrote:

...I like the "Extraordinary Gentlemen". Quite a lot in fact.

{[]
Wow, 11 years old now...

Virgil37

Soon it'll be a cult film...you'll see how the rest of the world catches up with us...They'll say, "oh, I loved it, I knew it was great when it opened". But we known better! {[]

chrisisall

Virgil37 wrote:

Soon it'll be a cult film...you'll see how the rest of the world catches up with us...They'll say, "oh, I loved it, I knew it was great when it opened". But we known better! {[]

Despite it being altered heavily from the graphic novel to be a vehicle for Connery's fair well, I find it to still be a truly bizarre little piece of cinema. It holds my attention every time.

Virgil37

chrisisall wrote:

Virgil37 wrote:

Soon it'll be a cult film...you'll see how the rest of the world catches up with us...They'll say, "oh, I loved it, I knew it was great when it opened". But we known better! {[]

Despite it being altered heavily from the graphic novel to be a vehicle for Connery's fair well, I find it to still be a truly bizarre little piece of cinema. It holds my attention every time.

I do really like it. And the references to Bond are great, specially considering Connery's there. I haven't read the graphic novel though.

chrisisall

Virgil37 wrote:

the references to Bond are great, specially considering Connery's there.

The 'M' thing was very cool. {[]

superado

I don't remember the details of the movie except Mr. Hyde, Captain Nemo and his cool car. The graphic novels used more of the literary Bond mythos, for example, an immediate ancestor of his being in the leadership of the Secret Service and having come from Bond Street (if memory serves), which was alluded to in OHMSS by the college of arms (though Bond doesn't agree). Then, there's a lecherous Bond in his original 1950's setting. The Alan Quartermaine character in the graphic novels is also shown in a young version and he more resembles Peter O'Toole than Connery.

chrisisall

superado wrote:

I don't remember the details of the movie

Watch it again then.

Grindelwald

St John dated both Connery & Lazenby........

Connery prolly got it on with Andress and Auger also.........could've sworn Laz had a short fling with Streisand as well or so I've heard. Then later Brolin became "Mr Streisand"