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* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/RobertShaw dyed his blond for the film and worked out extensively.

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* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/RobertShaw dyed his hair blond for the film and worked out extensively.
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** There was real conflict between the fighting gypsy girls. Martine Beswick recalled that Aliza Gur was jealous of her friendship with Creator/TerenceYoung and accused her of sleeping with him.

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** There was real conflict between the fighting gypsy girls. Martine Beswick Creator/MartineBeswick recalled that Aliza Gur was jealous of her friendship with Creator/TerenceYoung and accused her of sleeping with him.

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* BTeamSequel: Creator/KenAdam was unable to return as production designer, as he was busy working on ''Film/DrStrangelove''. Bob Simmons didn't return as stunt-co-ordinator, though he did serve as a stuntman. Maurice Binder didn't design the titles due to a brief falling out with the producers.

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Creator/KenAdam was unable to return as production designer, as he was busy working on ''Film/DrStrangelove''. ''Film/DrStrangelove''.
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Bob Simmons didn't return as stunt-co-ordinator, though he did serve as a stuntman. stuntman.
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Maurice Binder didn't design the opening titles due to a brief falling out with the producers.producers, resulting in the titles of this film and ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' being designed by Robert Brownjohn.
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Not Trivia. Moving to WhatCouldHaveBeen.James Bond.


* RunningGag: Bond being called away from his girlfriend Sylvia Trench (who he met in the previous film, Film/DrNo) just as things were about to get interesting was ''intended'' to be the start of a running gag, but the idea wasn't continued in the next film.
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* WagTheDirector: Creator/TerenceYoung wanted Creator/DesmondLlewelyn to play Q as a broad Welsh stereotype. Llewelyn convinced him otherwise.

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* WagTheDirector: Creator/TerenceYoung wanted Creator/DesmondLlewelyn Creator/DesmondLlewelyn, who was Welsh, to play Q as a broad Welsh stereotype. Llewelyn convinced him otherwise.
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* FalselyAdvertisedAccuracy: Fleming's introduction insists he was a real person and really ran SMERSH at the time the book was set. In fact, the real SMERSH never lasted beyond UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and G never existed.

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* FalselyAdvertisedAccuracy: Fleming's introduction insists he General G was a real person and really ran SMERSH at the time the book was set. In fact, the real SMERSH never lasted beyond UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and G never existed.
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* ActingForTwo: Creator/SeanConnery played both Bond and the SPECTRE training target with a [[LatexPerfection latex max]] resembling Bond's face in the opening.

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* ActingForTwo: Creator/SeanConnery played both Bond and the SPECTRE training target with a [[LatexPerfection latex max]] mask]] resembling Bond's face in the opening.



** Rosa Klebb was played by an Austrian (naturalized American) actress.

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** Rosa Klebb was played by Creator/LotteLenya, an Austrian (naturalized American) actress.
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Creator Chosen Casting is when the casting of an adaptation is influenced by the creator of the work being adapted, which in this case would be Ian Fleming. If the work was done by the adaptation's creators, it doesn't count.


* CreatorChosenCasting:
** Creator/TerenceYoung cast Creator/LotteLenya after hearing one of her musical recordings.
** For the role of Kronsteen, Young wanted "an actor with a remarkable face", so that he would be well remembered by audiences. This led to the casting of Creator/VladekSheybal, whom Young also considered convincing as an intellectual. Sheybal was initially hesitant to take the role but was convinced by Creator/SeanConnery's then-girlfriend Diane Cilento.
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* AbsurdlyShortProductionTime \ ChristmasRushed: With an October 1963 release date already announced, everything was done in just four months, and the TroubledProduction entry below shows it wasn't easy.

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* AbsurdlyShortProductionTime \ ChristmasRushed: AbsurdlyShortProductionTime: With an October 1963 release date already announced, everything was done in just four months, and the TroubledProduction entry below shows it wasn't easy.
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** Darko Kerim was modelled after Fleming's Turkish friend, Nazim Kalkavan. Fleming met the Oxford-educated shipowner in Istanbul whilst doing research.

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** Darko Kerim was modelled after Fleming's Turkish friend, Nazim Kalkavan. Fleming met the Oxford-educated shipowner in Istanbul whilst while doing research.
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Per TRS, this was renamed to Falsely Advertised Accuracy and moved to Trivia

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* FalselyAdvertisedAccuracy: Fleming's introduction insists he was a real person and really ran SMERSH at the time the book was set. In fact, the real SMERSH never lasted beyond UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and G never existed.

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* ReferencedBy: The ''Series/{{Endeavour}}'' episode "[[Recap/EndeavourS4E01Game Game]]" features a chess match; one of the characters, WPC Trewlove, displays her chess knowledge by identifying the opening move as as "the Kronsteen Variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined". In the book, Kronsteen is described as winning his chess match with "a brilliant twist into the Meran Variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined, to be debated all over Russia for weeks to come".



** Rosa Klebb was partly based on Colonel Rybkin—a real-life member of the Lenin Military-Political Academy about whom Fleming had written an article for ''The Sunday Times''.

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** Rosa Klebb was partly based on Colonel Rybkin—a Rybkin -- a real-life member of the Lenin Military-Political Academy about whom Fleming had written an article for ''The Sunday Times''.

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