Last month, Barbara Broccoli ditched the family business. Not in agriculture but in Hollywood. The Broccoli Family was the original owner of the James Bond franchise, that action-packed series of movies regaling audiences with the exploits of fictional British spy 007.c

It all began in 1951 when family patriarch Albert “Cubby” Broccoli decamped from the U.S. to take advantage of tax incentives for movies made in the United Kingdom. Cubby had worked his way up in Hollywood starting as a gofer on the set of a Howard Hughes movie. He schmoozed his way up to befriend Hughes, the aviator-turned-movie-mogul, soon becoming an assistant director just before World War II.