Bond Girls: The First 10 Years

Bond's Mission: Convinced he has killed Ernst Stavros Blofeld (Charles Gray) in a pool of hot mud, James Bond (Sean Connery) is dispatched to Amsterdam by M (Bernard Lee) to pose as troubleshooter Peter Franks in order to ascertain who has been illegally trading in diamonds. He hooks up with smuggler Tiffany Case (Jill St John) before fetching up inside a coffin in a Las Vegas crematorium. Following his narrow escape, 007 encounters gold-digger Plenty O'Toole (Lana Wood) at the Whyte House Hotel, only for her to be mistakenly killed instead of Case. On finding Blofeld alive on the building's top floor, Bond discovers the reason behind the diamond smuggling racket, as SPECTRE plots to destroy the world's nuclear weapons using a laser satellite.

Bambi (Lola Larson) and Thumper (Trina Parks): Seeking to rescue millionaire Willard Whyte (Jimmy Dean), Bond is challenged by the flic-flacking, karate-kicking duo of Bambi and Thumper. During the bruising battle, the yellow-bikini'd Thumper knees 007 in the groin, while Bambi wedges his head between her thighs while dangling from a high bar. But the struggle turns in Bond's favour when they follow him into the swimming pool, where he gets the information he needs by holding their heads underwater. Named after the faun and the rabbit in Walt Disney's Bambi (1942), this dangerous duo are left gasping for air at the side of the pool when Bond leaves to rescue Whyte with CIA buddy, Felix Leiter (Norman Burton).

Plenty O'Toole (Lana Wood): Having lucked out with a serial loser, Plenty latches on to Bond (still posing as Franks) in the Whyte House casino. He gives her $5000 from his winnings and she invites herself back to his room to thank him properly. Unfortunately, while she is changing into something more comfortable, Plenty is apprehended by three thugs who hurl her out of the window into the pool. Her storyline suffered from ruthless cutting, although footage of her going to Tiffany's home and running into assassins Mr Wint (Bruce Glover) and Mr Kidd (Putter Smith) can be found among the DVD extras. Linda Thorson, who had played Tara King in The Avengers (1968-69) hoped to play Plenty, but Cubby Broccoli resisted casting short-haired actresses as Bond Girls. Lana Wood got the nod on the advice of screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz and had to be tied to a concrete block in order to film the scene of her discovery in Tiffany's pool.

Tiffany Case (Jill St. John): Named after the New York jewellery store in which she was born, Tiffany is a diamond smuggler who readily joins forces with a disguised Bond, believing they are going to make a fortune. Instead, they make a killing when the real Peter Franks shows up and they use his corpse to smuggle some gems into the United States. In fact, the stones have been switched and, after he has seduced her following Plenty's pool plunge, 007 sends Tiffany to collect the real ones from the Circus Circus casino. At this stage, Tiffany is looking after her own interests and is unconcerned by SPECTRE's role in proceedings. But when Plenty is mistakenly killed instead of her, Case throws in her lot with Bond, although she nearly confounds his bid to sabotage the satellite from an oil rig off the Mexican coast. All ends well aboard a cruise ship, although they should keep an eye out for those rough-looking room stewards.

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Bond's Mission: Having prevented Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg) from drowning herself, James Bond (George Lazenby) discovers she is Tracy, the daughter of Marc-Ange Draco (Gabrielle Ferzetti), the head of the Unione Corse crime syndicate. Bond refuses Draco's request to marry Tracy to keep her out of mischief, but agrees to date her in return for information about the whereabouts of Ernst Stavros Blofeld (Telly Savalas). He is angling for a pardon and the title Count Balthazar de Bleuchamp and is prepared to use germ warfare to blackmail world leaders into granting his wish. Posing as genealogist Sir Hilary Bray, 007 gets into Blofeld's allergy institute in the Swiss Alps, where he discovers that 12 women, known as the Angels of Death, have been brainwashed into doing the SPECTRE supremo's bidding. M (Bernard Lee) is ready to do a deal. But, when Tracy is abducted during an avalanche, the lovestruck Bond decides he must act.

Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat): Based at Blofeld's Piz Gloria institute, Irma Bunt takes Sir Hilary up the mountain by sleigh and helicopter. She reminds him that she will not tolerate any fraternisation with the young women undergoing clinical trials and doesn't take kindly to being informed that her name is naval slang for the baggy part of a sail. When Bond's alias is uncovered, Irma shoots at him in a telephone box and gives pursuit when Tracy comes to his rescue in a fast motor. They wind up driving around a stock car circuit and Irma is lucky to escape when Tracy flips her vehicle and it explodes. She gets to have the last laugh, however. German veteran Ilse Steppat was making her English-language debut and had been hired to reprise the role of the Klebb-alike Bunt. But she died of a heart attack at the age of 52, just four days after OHMSS premiered.

Ruby Bartlett (Angela Scoular): Hailing from a Morecambe chicken farm, Ruby is being treated for a poultry allergy at Blofeld's clinic and has no idea that she has been programmed as a sleeper agent. She takes a shine to Sir Hilary and writes her room number in lipstick on his kilted leg under the dinner table. Their love-making is interrupted, however, when she is summoned to Blofeld's hypnotic briefing. Fresh from bathing with Sir James Bond as Buttercup in Casino Royale, Angela Scoular gets to enjoy a night of passion with 007. When he attempts a second assignation, however, he is greeted by Bunt and a reception committee.

Nancy (Catherine Schell): Another of the female patients at the Alpine clinic, Nancy had been allergic to potatoes. She is intrigued by the book of heraldic devices mentioned during dinner by Sir Hilary, who nonchalantly informs her that 'bezants' are golden balls. Indeed, she is so fascinated that 007 find her in his room after he returns from romancing Ruby. Nancy flirts with him again when the girls are playing curling. But she is prevented from being alone with Bond again, although he sees her with the others, as they are presented with the compact and atomisers that Blofeld intends using to spread Virus Omega.

The Angels of Death: In addition to Ruby and Nancy, there are 10 other patients at the Institute for Physiological Research. Only Helen, a Nordic woman with a fish allergy (played by Julie Ege) is named. But the nationality and ailment of the others are, as follows: American/pork (Dani Sheridan); Australian/beef (Anouska Hempel); Indian/lentils (Zaheera); China/rice (Mona Chong); Irish/sweetcorn (Jenny Hanley); Israel/shellfish (Helena Ronee); German/citrus fruit (Ingrid Black); and Jamaican/bananas (Sylvana Henriques). Look out for an uncredited Judy Geeson, too. It's not quite clear what the English girl is allergic to, but Joanna Lumley clearly got a taste for OHMSS, as she played Irma Bunt in a 2014 BBC radio adaptation. And, of course, like Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg, she also partnered Patrick Macnee's John Steed, as Purdey in The New Avengers (1976-77).

Tracy Draco (Diana Rigg): The daughter of a Corsican mobster, Teresa Draco insists on being known as Tracy because she's no saint. Indeed, after leaving her Swiss finishing school, she became embroiled in so many scandals that her father cancelled her allowance and she married Count Giulio di Vicenzo. After he dies at the wheel of his Maserati with his mistress, Tracy attempts to kill herself off a Portuguese beach, only to be rescued by Bond. Having covered her gambling debt at a casino, he disarms Tracy when she steals his Walther PPK and they sleep together. When he is abducted by Draco's henchmen, however, 007 refuses to marry and tame Tracy, although he does agree to keep seeing her in return for information on Blofeld.

Tracy follows Bond to Switzerland and her red Cougar sports car comes in handy when he requires a fast getaway from Irma Bunt. Following an eventful few laps of the local stock car circuit, Bond and Tracy spend a night in a barn, where she accepts his marriage proposal. They are separated the next day, however, during a downhill ski chase with Blofeld, which culminates in Tracy being kidnapped during an avalanche. Naturally, 007 rescues her and they marry on Draco's estate. But Bond comes to regret the decision to stop and remove the flowers from his Aston Martin DB5.

Having been one of the icons of the Swinging Sixties as Mrs Emma Peel in The Avengers (1965-68), Diana Rigg landed the role of Tracy after Bridget Bardot opted to star with Sean Connery in Edward Dmytryk's Western, Shalako (1968), rather than team with his replacement, George Lazenby, the Australian who had been spotted by Cubby Broccoli and editor-turned-director Peter R. Hunt in a Fry's Chocolate Cream commercial shortly after Connery had announced his retirement from the series. We all know that didn't stay away for long, however.

Bond's Mission: When a Jupiter rocket vanishes from orbit, the Americans suspect the Soviets. But James Bond (Sean Connery) is sent to Tokyo to investigate rumours that the captured spaceship landed in the Sea of Japan. Following clues relating to a cargo ship and a chemical company, 007 flies an autogyro nicknamed 'Little Nellie' over a volcano and confides in Tiger Tanaka (Tetsuro Tamba), the head of the Japanese secret service, that SPECTRE has joined forces with a rogue Asian state in an effort to escalate the Cold War. Posing as a fisherman, Bond enters the secret base inside the volcano. But, in seeking to sabotage the Bird One spacecraft, he comes face to face with his nemesis, Ernst Stavros Blofeld (Donald Pleasence).

Aki (Akiko Wakabayashi): Part of Tiger Tanaka's team, Aki makes contact with Bond at a sumo match. He uses the code words, 'I love you', to identify her and, when he carries her to bed after she has helped him escape from the Osato chemical plant, Aki responds with the famous phrase, 'I think I will enjoy very much serving under you.' When they return to the works the next day, Aki again has to utilise her driving skills to spirit Bond away, although their cause is aided by a helicopter with a giant magnet. Disappointed at not being allowed to pose as 007's wife when he disguises himself as a fisherman, Aki helps with his ninja training. However, she dies in agony in bed beside Bond, after she ingests the poison that had been intended for him. Originally named Suki in Roald Dahl's screenplay, Aki is the first Bond Girl not to have been created by Ian Fleming. Mie Hama was set to play the role, but her limited English led to her swapping parts with Akiko Wakabayashi, whose chemistry with Connery is evident.

Helga Brandt (Karin Dor): As secretary to Osato (Teru Shimada), Miss Brandt serves Mr Fisher (Bond's alias) with champagne and takes notes during their meeting. When Bond leaves the factory, however, she dispatches a hit squad to eliminate him. Thanks to Aki, 007 survives and encounters Helga on the Nang-Po, where she sleeps with Bond, despite refusing his offer of $150,000 to betray her boss. The next day, she turns the tables by using a wooden restraint to trap Bond aboard a plummeting, smoke-filled plane. Helga parachutes to safety. But, as SPECTRE's No.11, she pays the price for failing to dispose of Bond and plunges off a walkway into Blofeld's piranha pool. Inheriting a role rejected by fellow West German Eva Renzi, Karin Dor performed her own stunts, including Helga's gruesome demise. However, her dialogue was dubbed in the German print by an unnamed actress.

Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama): As Bond needs to get close to Blofeld's volcano HQ, he pretends to be a Matsu Island fisherman and marries local agent Kissy Suzuki, who poses as an Ama diver to reinforce the cover story. On their 'wedding night', Kissy reminds 007 that their union is strictly a business arrangement. But she also tells him about a diver being killed in a cave that doubles as an air vent for the hideaway and joins Bond in a boat heading for the spot the next morning. Having been forced to swim underwater to escape some poisonous gas, Bond and Kissy have a moment on the beach. When they spot a helicopter flying into the volcano, however, Bond sends her back to base to fetch reinforcements. She needs her diving skills to evade a SPECTRE sharpshooter and returns with Tanaka's ninja force and, following the explosive finale, shares a dinghy with 007 before they are rescued by M's submarine. Dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl, Mie Hama is one of the few Bond Girls to prove capable of looking after herself and doesn't need rescuing once.

Bond's Mission: Sir James Bond (David Niven) is reluctant to emerge from his 20-year retirement, even though SMERSH is killing enemy agents across the globe. When M (John Huston) perishes trying to obliterate Bond's estate, he travels to Scotland to return his former boss's ashes to Lady Fiona McTarry. However, she has been replaced by SMERSH's Agent Mimi and Bond has to use his charm to win her to the MI6 cause. As the agency's new chief, Bond decides to confuse his foe by calling all operatives 'James Bond 007'. Among them is Evelyn Tremble (Peter Sellers), who is duped into a card table confrontation with Le Chiffre (Orson Welles) by double agent, Vesper Lynd (Ursula Andress). Meanwhile, Bond's daughter, Mata (Joanna Pettet) is abducted and, in rescuing her, he discovers the dreadful secret being harboured by his neurotic nephew, Jimmy (Woody Allen).

Agent Mimi (Deborah Kerr): Posing as M's grieving widow, Lady Fiona McTarry, SMERSH's Agent Mimi corrals a bevy of beauties in a bid to tempt the now celibate Sir James into an indiscretion when he comes to pay his respects on the McTarry estate in Scotland. Impressed by his willpower, Mimi changes sides during an explosive grouse shoot. Having shed a thimbleful of blood and kissed her Jamie, Mimi retires to a convent. Revelling in the chance to ham up a Scottish accent, the Helensborough-born Kerr freely admitted that she did the film to pay for a swimming pool at her Swiss home.

Miss Moneypenny (Barbara Bouchet): The daughter of M's original secretary, Moneypenny is asked by Sir James to organise a training programme to stop MI6 agents from thinking about sex all the time. In addition to carrying out her own kiss test, she also recruits karate expert Coop (Terence Cooper) for the task and later accompanies her boss to Casino Royale to help rescue Mata Bond. Unfortunately, she winds up playing a golden harp.

The Detainer (Daliah Lavi): Selected to test Coop's suitability to teach agents how to resist women, this exotic agent adopts the codename 'James Bond 007' and goes undercover to infiltrate SMERSH. She discovers the identity of the malevolent Dr Noah and forces him to swallow an atomic bomb pill by dropping it in a glass of champagne.

Buttercup (Angela Scoular): As part of Agent Mimi's bid to break Sir James's spirit, she subjects him to the ministrations of Eliza (Gabriella Licudi), Heather (Tracey Crisp), Peg (Elaine Taylor), Meg (Alexandra Bastedo) and Buttercup, who are all SMERSH operatives posing as five of M's 11 daughters (some of whom are adopted). The latter gets to share a tub with the flustered ex-spy and claims to have been her father's 'little thermometer'. She proceeds to scrub Bond's back and give him an impromptu anatomy lesson before he finally evades her ministrations.

Mata Bond (Joanna Pettet): The daughter of 007 and Mata Hari is estranged from her father. But he tracks her down to India, where she dances in a temple as the Celestial Virgin of the Sacred Altar. She agrees to go to Berlin to infiltrate International Mothers' Help, an au pair service that serves as a front for SMERSH's spy school. Mata uncovers Le Chiffre's plan to raise funds by auctioning off compromising snapshots of top-ranking British, American, Russian and Chinese military officials. But, having destroyed the evidence, she is kidnapped while watching Trooping the Colour and flown by flying saucer from Trafalgar Square to Dr Noah's lair beneath Casino Royale.

Miss Goodthighs (Jacqueline Bisset): Having watched boss Le Chiffre lose to Evelyn Tremble at baccarat, SMERSH agent Giovanna Goodthighs is sent to seduce and eliminate him. She slinks into his hotel room wearing a short nightgown and carrying a bottle of champagne. But her plan to put a knockout pill in his glass is foiled by Vesper Lynd, who has her swiftly dispatched. Looking back on her encounter with Peter Sellers, Jacqueline Bisset recalls him firing a blank pistol in her face causing `a shower spout of pin pricks leaking blood' on her skin. She also dropped the large bottle on her foot and subsequently dubbed the 'horrible' Sellers as her worst leading man.

Vesper Lynd (Ursula Andress): In October 1954, a version of Casino Royale was broadcast on American television as part of the Climax drama programme. Barry Nelson headlined, as the only American Bond to date, while Peter Lorre co-starred as Le Chiffre. Linda Christian became the first Bond Girl in playing Valerie Mathis, who was a renamed incarnation of Vesper Lynd. She was essayed in this non-Eon spoof by none other than Ursula Andress, who remains the only actress to have been cast as two different principal Bond Girls. Her Vesper is a retired agent and eccentric millionaire, who is lured back into the game by an unpaid tax bill. Sir James sends her to keep an eye on Tremble during his baccarat duel with Le Chiffre. But, despite the fact they tumble into bed together, Vesper has no qualms about bumping him off with a machine-gun hidden inside some bagpipes. She also has Sir James in her sights when Dr Noah's indigestion reaches critical point.

Bond's Mission: Bond (Sean Connery) is sent to the Bahamas after two NATO atomic bombs are stolen by SPECTRE No.2, Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi). He threatens to attack a major American city unless he receives $100 million in diamonds. However, Largo makes an enemy of his mistress, Domino Derval (Claudine Auger), by killing her pilot brother and she agrees to help 007 when he discovers something unusual about Largo's boat, Disco Volante.

Fiona Volpe (Luciana Paluzzi): One of the busier Bond Girls, Fiona seduces French Vulcan pilot Major François Derval (Paul Stassino) so SPECTRE can replace him with her surgically altered accomplice, Angelo Palazzi (also Stassino). Fiercely loyal to No.1, Ernst Stavros Blofeld (Anthony Dawson), Fiona disposes of boss Count Lippe (Guy Doleman) by blowing up his car with a missile fired from her motorbike. In the Bahamas, she allows Bond to seduce her and mocks his chauvinist arrogance. When he escapes her clutches and hides out in the Kiss Kiss Club, Fiona corners him on the dance floor. But 007 uses her as a shield when one of her sidekicks shoots at him. Fiona was an Irish redhead called Kelly in Richard Maibaum's original screenplay and became an Italian to accommodate Paluzzi after she missed out on the role of Domno.

Patricia Fearing (Molly Peters): A nurse at the Shrublands Health Clinic, Patricia is worried she will lose her job after Lippe tries to kill Bond by dangerously speeding up a traction table. He promises not to complain if she accompanies him to the steam room and later gives her a massage using a pair of mink gloves to relieve her tension. Although voiced by Barbara Jefford, model Molly Peters made 007 history by becoming the first woman to disrobe during a scene.

Paula Caplan (Martine Beswick): Based in the Bahamas, Paula helps Bond make contact with Domino by posing as a couple whose boat has broken down offshore. She is due to meet 007 to hand over photographs of Largo's craft, when she is ambushed by Volpe and her henchmen and taken to the Palmyra estate. Rather than divulge any information, however, Paula commits suicide with a cyanide capsule. Two years after playing Zora in From Russia With Love, Martine Beswick made her second and final series appearance. She would later share the title role in Roy Ward Baker's Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971) with Ralph Bates.

Domino Derval (Claudine Auger): Domino is first seen with her foot trapped in a reef while snorkelling and she has to be rescued by Bond, who is boating with Paula. She invites him to lunch on the beach, where their every move is watched by Largo's thugs, as she is his mistress and he is enraged by her flirtation with 007 on the casino dance floor following a highly charged game of baccarat. While the enigmatic Domino seems to have previously enjoyed the luxurious lifestyle that Largo had provided, she vows to avenge her brother when she learns of his death. Indeed, she actively seeks to exploit Bond to do the deed for her and even endures torture with ice cubes and a lighted cigar after she is caught spying on the Disco Volante. When Largo threatens to overpower Bond, however, Domino has to do her own dirty work with a handy harpoon gun. Producer Cubby Broccoli was keen to cast Julie Christie in the role and pursued Raquel Welch before she signed up for Richard Fleischer's Fantastic Voyage (1966). Onetime beauty queen Auger was cast instead, although she was dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl and doubled by Evelyne Boren for the underwater sequences.

Bond's Mission: When the Bank of England warns M that Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) is manipulating the price of gold, Bond is sent to keep the bullion dealer under surveillance. Having thwarted Goldfinger at the gin rummy table and on the golf course, 007 is fortunate to escape a close encounter with an industrial laser. But he makes it to Kentucky in one piece, where he learns that Operation Grand Slam is about to be launched to detonate a dirty bomb inside Fort Knox in order to irradiate America's gold reserves.

Bonita (Nadja Regin): Belly dancer Bonita performs the tarantella at the El Scorpio nightclub in the Mexican pre-credits sequence. Bond surprises her in her dressing-room bathtub after blowing up a heroin den and, in attempting to seduce him, she asks him to remove his Walther PPK holster because it's hurting her. Fortunately, 007 sees Capunga (Alf Joint) reflected in her eye and the assassin meets a shocking end after a protracted struggle. Having appeared as Kerim Bey's unnamed girlfriend in From Russia With Love, Nadja Regin became the first actress to play two different characters in the Bond series.

Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton): Goldfinger's mistress helps him cheat at cards using long-range binoculars and a one-way radio connected to his 'hearing aid'. However, Bond catches her in the act and lures her back to his hotel room after having used the radio to shame Goldfinger into losing a hand. The megalomaniac is so furious at being stymied that he has his Korean henchman, Oddjob (Harold Sakata), incapacitate Jill and kill her by covering her body with gold paint. Shirley Eaton had misgivings about appearing naked, but wound up on the cover of Life magazine en route to securing an indelible place in screen history. But the golden figure in the opening titles was played by Margaret Nolan, who also crops up as Bond's Miami masseuse, Dink. Indeed, just about every poster, press advert, book cover and album sleeve includes the image of Nolan covered from head to toe in her gilt tan.

Tilly Masterson (Tania Mallet): Seeking to avenge her sister's skin asphyxiation, Tilly attempts to shoot Goldfinger on a Swiss road and nearly hits Bond following in his iconic Aston Martin DB5. He uses one of Q's gadgets to shred Tilly's tyres. But he proves unable to protect her when her bid to assassinate Goldfinger at his factory results in a car chase that culminates in Tilly having her neck broken by Oddjob's famous metal-brimmed hat. Having missed out on the role of Tatiana in From Russia With Love, former Miss Universe contestant Tania Mallet finally got her 007 moment.

Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman): Having placed her Flying Circus at Goldfinger's disposal, Pussy Galore flies Bond to the gold smuggler's stud farm near Louisville. She apprehends the agent when he breaks out of confinement and uses judo on him when he gets frisky in the barn. However, 007 disarms her and persuades her to betray Goldfinger by switching the toxic gas her pilots are due to drop on Fort Knox for a harmless substance. Right up until the end, she resists Bond's advances, but succumbs after sharing a parachute descent following a hair-raising tussle on her depressurised plane. Known to millions as the catsuit-wearing Cathy Gale in The Avengers (1962-64), Honor Blackman broke the Bond Girl mould by giving 007 as good as he gets. Nervous of the name, the producers considered calling her 'Kitty Galore'. But Mike Myers had no such qualms when he created Allota Fagina for Jay Roach's spy spoof, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997).

Bond's Mission: When MI6 station chief John Strangways is murdered in Jamaica, M (Bernard Lee) sends James Bond (Sean Connery) to investigate. He hooks up with CIA counterpart Felix Leiter (Jack Lord), who is trying to discover why rockets launched from Cape Canaveral keep veering off their designated course. The clues lead to Crab Key, the island hideaway of reclusive scientist, Dr Julius No (Joseph Wiseman), who is also a member of the Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, or SPECTRE.

Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell): A Second Officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service, Miss Moneypenny is secretary to M, the head of the British Secret Service. She enjoys a mildly flirtatious relationship with Commander Bond, as she finds him attractive, in spite of knowing all about his womanising ways, and is well aware of his value to MI6 and the country. Needing money after her husband suffered a heart attack, Lois Maxwell was offered the choice of playing Moneypenny or Sylvia Trench. Uncomfortable with appearing in a state of undress, she plumped for the former and remained in situ until Roger Moore's swan song in A View to a Kill (1985). The Canadian-accented Maxwell was almost replaced after demanding a pay rise for Diamonds Are Forever (1971), but got to enjoy a rare day out of the office, when she posed as a customs official sending Bond to Amsterdam, with a request to bring back a diamond in a ring. However, she agrees to settle for a tulip.

Sylvia Trench (Eunice Gayson): Having introduced herself at the baccarat table at the London casino, Le Cercle ('Trench, Sylvia Trench'), this good-time socialite invites herself back to Bond's apartment while he is being briefed by M. He finds Sylvia dressed in one of his shirts and using his putter to knock golf balls into a hat. Suitably impressed, Bond delays his flight to get to know her more intimately. Intriguingly, director Terence Young cast Eunice Gayson, as he considered her a lucky mascot after they had worked together on Zarak (1957).

Miss Taro (Zena Marshall): As PA to the chief secretary of the colonial administration in Jamaica, Miss Taro enables Dr No to keep tabs on everything going on across the island. Having spotted her crouching by her boss's door, 007 realises she isn't to be trusted. But, even after he is ambushed by the Three Blind Mice while heading to her country home, Bond can't resist stringing Taro along after she opens the door to him in a bath towel. Following a lengthy love-making session, he delivers her into the back of a police vehicle.

Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress): First seen emerging from the sea in an iconic white bikini, shell-diver Honey Ryder initially views Bond with suspicion. On realising she can trust him and companion, Quarrel (John Kitzmiller), she reveals that her father lost his life on Crab Key, while she used a tarantula to exact her revenge on the man who had raped her. She winds up being taken prisoner by Dr No, but finds herself in a boat bobbing on the ocean as the film reaches its smoochy finale. Cast over Julie Christie after the producers saw a photograph taken by husband John Derek, Swiss actress Ursula Andress (like Eunice Gayson) had her dialogue dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl, a German voiceover artist who worked on 10 Bond movies in all. Honey's rendition of 'Underneath the Mango Tree' was performed by Diana Coupland, who is most fondly remembered as Sid James's wife in the TV series (1971-76) and 1972 film of Bless This House.