Sean Connery beat up Lana Turner's gangster boyfriend for pointing gun at him on film set
Before he was James Bond, Sean Connery featured in film drama Another Time, Another Place opposite Hollywood star Lana Turner, who would have been 100-years-old on Monday. The actress, whose career wasn’t as hot as it used to be, played an American journalist who had an affair with a war correspondent 10 years her junior, played by Connery. During the 1957 shoot in London, rumours in the press claimed the two actors were actually having an affair, which Lana’s mob enforcer boyfriend Johnny Stompanato did not take well.
Johnny was the bodyguard and enforcer of gangster Mickey Cohen and in the mid-1950s was in an abusive relationship with Lana.
When he heard rumours surrounding his girlfriend and the future James Bond, the thug called her up, threatening to kill or disfigure her.
Johnny then flew to London to take on Connery, but Lana told her lover to stay away from the Another Time, Another Place set.
Ignoring her, he arrived at the studio in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire where the two stars were shooting a scene in which they were embracing on a couch.
