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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

December 2021

  • Film and Television<br>Editorial use only. No book cover usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore/Shutterstock (1558359a) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Sally Ann Howes Film and Television

    Sally Ann Howes obituary

    Actor and singer who played Truly Scrumptious in the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

October 2019

  • Anna Quayle and Gert Fröbe in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1968, her big-screen break.

    Anna Quayle obituary

    Multitalented actor best remembered as Baroness Bomburst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

July 2019

  • Althea Gibson Dies<br>UNDATED: Althea Gibson of the United States plays during Wimbledon 1956. Gibson, the first black person to win Wimbledon and the U.S. national title, died September 28, 2003 at the age of 76. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    Brief letters
    Althea Gibson’s role in transit of Venus

  • Kinetic sculpture A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley

    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang designer's kinetic sculpture up for sale

February 2017

  • Adrian Hall, Dick Van Dyke and Heather Ripley in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

    Widower of the parish
    In a charity shop I find my dad, and embrace my inner Caractacus Potts

    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has always been a favourite of team Golightly. But I hadn’t realised why it had been so important to me as a child

November 2016

  • Peter Picton for Other lives

    Other lives
    Peter Picton obituary

    Other lives: Comic actor and owner of the car celebrated as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

March 2016

  • James Bond: You Only Live Twice, 1967

    James Bond production designer Ken Adam – a career in pictures

    Ken Adam, who died on Thursday, built some of the most elaborate and impressive film sets ever seen, including Dr Strangelove’s war room and the villain’s lair for You Only Live Twice. Here are a selection of his greatest hits

December 2015

  • Scene from the 1968 film version of  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

    Chitty-chitty-bang-bang goes another Ian Fleming theory

  • Stars of the 1968 film  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

    Brief letters
    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s not so pretty origins

March 2012

  • King of the singalongs ... Louis and Baloo in Walt Disney's The Jungle Book (1967).

    Film blog
    Robert B Sherman: a career in clips

    The legendary Disney musicals composer – one half of the Sherman Brothers – died today. We look back at his greatest movie hits, including classics such as I Wanna Be Like You and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

March 2011

  • Frank Cottrell Boyce

    Children's books
    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flies again

    Frank Cottrell Boyce found writing a sequel to Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was not going to be easy, until he had his souped up camper van

June 2007

  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang soars to $500,000

    Dick Van Dyke's flying car from the 1968 movie has sold at auction in Florida for $505,000.

February 2002

  • After the big Bang Bang...

    At seven, Heather Ripley was whisked off to star in the perfect family film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. That's when her real family began to fall apart.

May 2001

  • Ken Hughes

    Director who yearned for serious films but won fame with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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