Albert R. Broccoli

At 87 years old, Albert R. Broccoli has this physical status:

Albert Romolo Broccoli (April 5, 1909 – June 27, 1996), known as "Cubby" in the United States, was an American film director who made more than 40 motion pictures throughout his career.

The bulk of the films were produced in the United Kingdom and were often shot at Pinewood Studios.

Danjaq, LLC, and Eon Productions Broccoli's founder is perhaps best known as the maker of several of James Bond's movies.

Harry Saltzman and others watched the films evolve from low-budget origins to huge-budget, high-grossing extravaganzas, and Broccoli's descendants continue to produce new Bond films.

Early life

Broccoli was born in Queens, New York City, and the younger of two children of two immigrants from Italy's Calabria region, Giovanni Broccoli and Kristina Vence, was born. He had an older brother. He got his nickname after his cousin, mobster Pat DiCicco, started calling him "Kabibble," after a similarly named cartoon character. "Kubbie" was eventually reduced to "Kubbie" and Broccoli named it "Cubby." The family later bought a farm on Long Island, New York, near their relatives' DiCiccos.

The family moved to Florida, and Giovanni Broccoli, who died in Astoria, Queens, joined the family on the death of his father Giovanni Broccoli. Broccoli, a casket maker, then became interested in film production after having worked in various industries, including casket maker, became interested in filmmaking. He started at the bottom, playing as a gofer on Howard Hughes' The Outlaw (1941), which starred Jane Russell. Howard Hughes, his lifelong friend, was here for the first time, while Hughes was in charge of the film's development after director Howard Hawks was fired. By the time the United States entered World War II, Broccoli grew to the position of assistant director.

Broccoli is accused of being complicit in an altercation with comedian and Three Stooges creator Ted Healy outside the Trocadero nightclub, right before the latter's death in 1937. According to a person, actor Wallace Beery, Broccoli, and film director Pat DiCicco beat Healy so badly that he fell into a coma and died. There is no evidence in contemporaneous news reports that either Beery or DiCicco was present, presumably because the probe and any subsequent newspaper coverage would be routinely sidelined by MGM's reporters, Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling (Mannix would later become a producer and executive for MGM) since Wallace Beery was one of MGM's most well-paid and influential actors. Beery was immediately sent to a long vacation in Europe before the tale came to an end. Broccoli confessed that he was actually involved in a fist fight with Healy at the Trocadero. He later changed his story, claiming that a heavily intoxicated Healy had arranged a fight with him, the two briefly scuffled, then shook hands and parted ways, before concluding. Broccoli admitted to attacking Healy, but not striking him in other reports.

It's either Healy died as a result of the brawl or due to his well-known alcoholism. An autopsy was not performed until Healy's body had been embalmed, meaning the examiner's statement that Healy's organs were "soaked in alcohol" was useless in determining a cause of death.

Healy died of acute and persistent alcoholism as a result of autopsy. As there was no suggestion in the report that his death was caused by physical assault, police ended their investigation.

Family life

Broccoli has been married three times. He married actress Gloria Blondell, the younger sister of Joan Blondell, in 1940 at the age of 31, who died in 1940. They divorced amicably in 1945 without having children. He married Nedra Clark, widow of singer Buddy Clark, in 1951, and the couple were told they had fertility problems and would never have children. They adopted Tony Broccoli, a boy who died before Nedra became pregnant. Tina died in 1958, a few years after giving birth to their daughter. Dana Natol, a 1959 Broccoli, married actress Dana Natol. Barbara Broccoli was their daughter, and Natol adopted his two children. Albert Broccoli became a mentor to Dana's teen son, Michael G. Wilson. The children grew up around the Bond film sets, and his wife's presence on several production decisions has been alluded to in several informal accounts.

Michael Wilson worked his way up through the film company to co-write and co-produce. Barbara Broccoli, a daughter of the 1980s, served in various capacities under her father's tutelage from the 1980s to the present. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli have co-produced the films since Albert Broccoli's death.

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