Before He Was 007, Sean Connery Got Tangled Up in a Real Hollywood Mob Scandal

Before He Was 007, Sean Connery Got Tangled Up in a Real Hollywood Mob Scandal

A few years before landing his breakthrough role as James Bond in 1962’s Dr. No, Sean Connery shared the screen with Lana Turner in the 1958 melodrama Another Time, Another Place. Unbeknownst to Connery, Turner was in a relationship with a guy named Johnny Stompanato, who was a bodyguard and enforcer for notorious mobster Mickey […] The post Before He Was 007, Sean Connery Got Tangled Up in a Real Hollywood Mob Scandal appeared first on VICE.

That Time Sean Connery Had to Hide from the Mob

In 1958, Sean Connery was a rising star in the entertainment business, but he was not yet James Bond, and so was not quite a household name. He landed the lead role in the film Another Time, Another Place opposite Lana Turner. Turner herself lobbied for Connery to fill the role, which may have contributed to the trouble. Turner's boyfriend at the time was Johnny Stompanato, a mob enforcer for notorious gangster Mickey Cohen. Stompanato suspected…