Michael Korda - I only met Ian Fleming once, a...

I only met Ian Fleming once, at a party given by my father's friend the director Carol Reed, at his house at 211 King's Road, Chelsea, the garden of which he shared with Peter Ustinov.

Michael Korda

English Novelist

Born: Oct 8, 1933

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