In 1961 Fleming published his ninth Bond novel while that same year, his fifth Bond novel was acknowledged as one of JFK’s favorites. Ian Fleming’s prospects exploded during the 1960s, particularly in the States. Hecht is the foremost Golden Age screenwriter and won the first Best Screenplay Oscar in 1927 for the sacrosanct Howard Hughes production of Howard Hawks’s Scarface. Feldman bought the screen rights from Ratoff’s estate and hired Ben Hecht to adapt Casino Royale. However, attempts to make the Casino Royale movie remained frustrated when Ratoff died in 1960. Gregory Ratoff bought the movie rights to Fleming’s first novel the same year as that TV adaptation. As the substitute for this graphic scene, the tuxedo-clad, barefoot Bond (Barry Nelson) was secured in a bathtub and his toenails attacked with pliers in the novel’s first adaptation: a 1954 television show. In the years following, Fleming wrote 12 Bond novels and 2 collections of Bond short stories there.įleming’s first book (that many critics consider his best), Casino Royale, introduced a knock-out cocktail, the Vesper Martini, a sensational last line, “The bitch is dead now,” and a torture scene featuring Fleming’s Bond tied naked to a cane chair with its seat cut out so that his testicles could be abused with a carpet-beater.

Ian Fleming wrote his first James Bond adventure, Casino Royale, in 1953 at Goldeneye, his home in Jamaica.

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