TRUE BRITT

There are worse ways to go than being fucked to death by Britt Ekland. On your wedding night. This was almost the fate of the British comic genius Peter Sellers, one third of The Goon Show and creator of Inspector — sorry, Chief Inspector — Clouseau in the Pink Panther film franchise. It turned out to be a garden variety non-fatal heart attack. But if the world didn’t know the name of his bride — whom he’d met just 10 days earlier — it sure as hell was familiar with Britt Ekland by the end of 1964.

The 22-year-old actress, before she was scouted in an Italian coffee shop and promptly sent to England. She met Sellers on the set of , and the rest is cardiac history.