Mendl, along with then ambassador Eric Phipps, supported appeasement, playing down Winston Churchill's importance in March 1938 and trying to prevent Anthony Eden from speaking in Paris in June 1939. Mendl married interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe in 1926, at which point he was head of the press section in the British embassy in Paris, with the wedding held at the British consulate in Paris. De Wolfe was living in a lesbian relationship with Elisabeth Marbury, and the marriage allowed her to use the title "Lady". De Wolfe paid Mendl a monthly allowance, and the two did not live together. He was an amateur baritone singer, taught by Jean de Reszke. At the Nazi occupation of France in 1940, Mendl was forced to leave for the United States, living in Beverly Hills. Mendl appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film "Notorious" in the role of Commodore who meets Ingrid Bergman's character at a party. In 1947, Mendl hosted a television programme called "The Sir Charles Mendl Show". He returned to France after the end of the Second World War. After de Wolfe's death in 1950, Mendl married Yvonne Steinbach, who died in 1956. Japanese destroyer Hagi  Two ships of the Japanese Navy have been named Hagi:      King (2009 film)  KING is an Indonesian movie released in 2009, that tells about the dream of a village boy named Guntur (Rangga Raditya) to become an international badminton player. The film starred , , Surya Saputra, , , Jonatan Christie, and Kevin Sanjaya. The film is the first film about badminton in the world. The film tells about the dream of a village boy named Guntur () to become an international badminton player. His father Tedjo (), who is a swan feather collector, ingredients to make shuttlecock, is a huge fan of Liem Swie King, an Indonesian badminton legend told his son the greatness of King. After his father told him about the story, Guntur determined to become a top international badminton player by joining a local badminton club, where he met his rival Arya Jonatan Christie. Until one day, when he and his rival, Arya invited to a selection process to join the biggest badminton club in Indonesia PB Djarum. During the selection, Arya failed it and has to go back home, when Guntur was selected to join the club.