Near the end of his life, DeMille began pre-production work on a film biography of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement and had asked David Niven to star in the film, which was never made.

C. L. Moore was an active member of the Tom and Terri Pinckard Science Fiction literary salon, and was a frequent contributor to literary discussions with the regular membership including Larry Niven, Norman Spinrad.

Eventually the term " Finagle's law " was popularized by science fiction author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners ; this " Belter " culture professed a religion and / or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.

Hawks developed the script with Seton Miller for their eighth and final collaboration and the script was by Miller, Kubec Glasmon, John Bright and Niven Busch.

" Niven says that when he asked Bogart about his scar he said it was caused by a childhood accident ; Niven claims the stories that Bogart got the scar during wartime were made up by the studios to inject glamor.

The ceremony was attended by some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, David Niven, Ronald Reagan, James Mason, Bette Davis, Danny Kaye, Joan Fontaine, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck and Gary Cooper, as well as Billy Wilder and Jack Warner.

Science fiction writer Larry Niven has tongue-in-cheek theorized that, based on such abundance, Krypton was actually a Dyson sphere with a surface hundreds of times that of a mere planet.

In this story, the coldest place concerned is the dark side of Mercury, which at the time the story was written was thought to be tidally locked with the Sun ( it was found to rotate in a 2: 3 resonance after Niven received payment for the story, but before it was published ).

The bible for Green Lantern was written by Niven.

When it was pointed out to Niven that the Ringworld was dynamically unstable, in that once the center of rotation drifted away from the central sun, gravity would pull the ring into contact with the star, he used this as a plot element in the sequel novel, The Ringworld Engineers.

According to author Michael Moorcock, in 1967 Niven was among those Science Fiction Writers of America members who voiced opposition to the Vietnam War.

The two timelines were implicitly joined by Niven in the story A Relic of the Empire, in which the background elements of the Slaver civilization ( introduced in World of Ptavvs, from the Belter series ) was used as a plot element of a story in the faster-than-light setting.

The Kzinti " crossed-over " in to the Star Trek universe in the animated episode " The Slaver Weapon ", which was written by Larry Niven and is adapted from Niven's own short story " The Soft Weapon ".

Gulacy was a film buff, and modeled many characters after film stars: Juliette on Marlene Dietrich, James Larner on Marlon Brando, Clive Reston ( often broadly hinted at as being the son of James Bond as well as the grand nephew of Sherlock Holmes ) occasionally looking like Basil Rathbone and Sean Connery, and a minor character Ward Sarsfield ( after the real-life name of Sax Rohmer ) who looked like David Niven.

Niven was " endlessly teased " about this error, which he corrected in subsequent printings to show Wu teleporting westward.

Larry Niven reported in 2001 that a movie deal had been signed and was in the early planning stages.

Similarities to Ringworld have been noted in the game, and Niven was asked ( but declined ) to write the first novel based on the series.

In 1969, a plaque to Leigh was placed in the Actors Church, St Paul's, Covent Garden ; in 1985, a portrait of her was included in a series of postage stamps, along with Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Chaplin, Peter Sellers and David Niven to commemorate " British Film Year ".

Niven joined what became known as the Hollywood Raj, a group of British actors in Hollywood which included Rex Harrison, Errol Flynn, Boris Karloff, Stan Laurel, Basil Rathbone, Ronald Colman, Leslie Howard and C. Aubrey Smith.

Other film stars considered to be " members " of this select group were David Niven ( whom Smith treated like a son ), Ronald Colman, Rex Harrison, Robert Coote, Nigel Bruce ( whose daughter's wedding he had attended as best man ), Leslie Howard ( whom Smith had known since working with him on early films in London ) and Patric Knowles.

Among the movies Cromwell directed are Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ) starring Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello ; The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ) starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll, with Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr .; Algiers ( 1938 ) starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr ; Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940 ) starring Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, and Ruth Gordon ; Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake ( 1942 ) starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney ; Since You Went Away ( 1944 ) starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Robert Walker, and Monty Woolley, with Hattie McDaniel, Agnes Moorehead, Alla Nazimova, Lionel Barrymore and Keenan Wynn ; Anna and the King of Siam ( 1946 ) starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, and Gale Sondergaard ; Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott ; the women's prison drama Caged ( 1950 ) and the noir crime / drama The Racket ( 1951 ) starring Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, and Robert Ryan, which Cromwell had appeared in onstage in New York and on tour.

With actors such as Boris Karloff, Aubrey Smith, Ronald Coleman, Leslie Howard ( who joined for social reasons, despite disliking cricket ), David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Fontaine, Elsa Lanchester and Merle Oberon attending matches at the Griffith Park ground on Sundays the British colony in Hollywood set the tone for tea on lawn.

" Flash Crowd " is a 1973 English language novella by science fiction author Larry Niven, one of a series about the social consequence of inventing an instant, practically free transfer booth that could take one anywhere on Earth in milliseconds.

A character based on Ackerman, and his " Ackermansion ", appears in the Niven / Pournelle collaboration Fallen Angels.

The original release of Magic: The Gathering paid homage to Larry Niven on a card called " Nevinyrral's Disk ," with Nevinyrral being " Larry Niven " spelled backwards.

" While praising the novel generally, he faulted Niven for relying on inconsistencies regarding evolution in his extrapolations to support his fictional premises.

The setting is a distant future based on extrapolation of as much hard science as Niven had available.

* The Ringworld Role-Playing Game: A Re-appraisal From Other Reviews on " Known Space: The Future Worlds of Larry Niven " fan site

A 2009 biography of actor David Niven had assertions, based on information from his widow and a good friend of Niven's, that he too had had an affair with the princess.

His life and the sacrifices he made to keep going despite pain and impending death were the subject of the 1942 British film, The First of the Few produced and directed by Leslie Howard, with Howard in the starring role of R. J. Mitchell, and David Niven as ' Geoffrey Crisp ', based on the Supermarine test pilot Jeffrey Quill who flew the aerobatic sequences for the film in a Spitfire MkII.

It features a character, Lawrence Van Cott, that is modelled on science fiction author Larry Niven, whose full name is " Laurence van Cott Niven ".

* The Man-Kzin Wars: A shared universe based on the Kzinti Conflicts in Larry Niven's Known Space universe, featuring writers personally selected by Niven

Niven requested assignment to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders or the Black Watch ; then jokingly wrote on the form, as his third choice, " anything but the Highland Light Infantry " ( because the HLI wore tartan trews rather than kilts ).

While crossing the Atlantic, Niven resigned his commission by telegram on 6 September 1933.

After Britain declared war on Germany in 1939, Niven returned home and rejoined the Army.

Niven was re-commissioned as a lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade on 25 February 1940, and was assigned to a motor training battalion.

Ustinov later appeared with Niven in Death on the Nile ( 1978 ).

In 1981 Niven published a second and much more successful novel, Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly, which was set during and after World War II, and which drew on his experiences during the war and in Hollywood.

While she was convalescing in the Blackstone Hotel in New York, Niven and Hjördis were next-door neighbours with Audrey Hepburn, who made her début on Broadway that season.

In 2007, Niven, in conjunction with a group of science fiction writers known as SIGMA, led by Pournelle, began advising the U. S. Department of Homeland Security as to future trends affecting terror policy and other topics.

He also played the role of Dr. Gibson in the 1999 production of Wives and Daughters, and appeared in the 2008 BBC production of the Charles Dickens novel Little Dorrit as Mr. Meagles, as DS Box in the first series of Criminal Justice ( 2008 ), and as Dr. James Niven in Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen in 2009.