It was Dana Broccoli who decided that an unknown beefcake named Sean Connery was the right man to play Bond in Dr No (1962), the first of the Bond films. Connery had come to Cubby Broccolis attention playing a burly farmhand in a Walt Disney film about leprechauns.One day, Dana Broccoli later recalled, Cubby called me and said: Could you come down and look at this Disney leprechaun film, Darby OGill and the Little People, at the Goldwyn Studios? I dont know if this Sean Connery guy has any sex appeal. I saw that face and the way he moved and talked, and I said: Cubby, hes fabulous! He was just perfect, he had star material right there.
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