James Bond in film the Eon series, there have been three additional productions with the character of James Bond: an American television adaptation, "Casino Royale" (1954), produced by CBS; a spoof, "Casino Royale" (1967), produced by Charles K. Feldman; and a remake of "Thunderball" entitled "Never Say Never Again" (1983), produced by Jack Schwartzman, who had obtained the rights to the film from McClory. In 1954 the American CBS television network paid Ian Fleming $1,000 ($ in dollars) for the rights to turn his first novel, "Casino Royale", into a one-hour television adventure as part of the dramatic anthology series "Climax Mystery Theater", which
David Niven in "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1936) at Warners, an Imperial adventure film starring his one-time housemate Errol Flynn. Niven was fourth billed in "Beloved Enemy" (1936) for Goldwyn, supporting Merle Oberon with whom he became romantically involved. Universal used him in "We Have Our Moments" (1937) then he had another good support part in David O. Selznick's "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1937). Fox gave him the lead in a B picture, "Dinner at the Ritz" (1938) and he had a support part in "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" (1938) directed by Ernst Lubitsch at Paramount. Niven was one of the