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The Bond Girls
"She drank a lot
and when they went upstairs, she led him into her bedroom and made
passionate love to him"
Casino Royale (1953)
Honey Ryder
She was the first bond girl, Honey Ryder emerged from
the sea in a skimpy white bikini singing "Underneath the Mango Tree",
and she set the standard for all the Bond girls to follow. In
Dr No Ursula Andress
is one of the best bond girls she helps guide bond through the evil
Dr No's island.
"Although Ian
Fleming had Honey Ryder emerge from the surf naked in
Dr No, the film-makers clad Ursula
Andress in a (then) shocking white bikini, which sent sales of the
suites soaring".
Most memorable quote
Honey: Are you looking for shells?
Bond: No, I'm just looking.
Tatiana Romanova
In
From Russia With Love the tempting seductress who is used to lure
Bond into a SPECTRE trap, Tatiana Romanova works as an office clerk in
the Russian cypher department. Daniella Bianchi, who was Miss Universe
in 1960, is beautiful and trusting as Bond's love interest, who he
endeavors to take safely back to England with her "dowry" - the Lektor
decoder.
Most memorable quote
Bond: You're one of the most beautiful girls I've
ever seen.
Tatiana: Thank you, but I think my mouth is too big.
Bond: No, it's just the right size - for me, that is.
Jill Masterson
Made herself a household name after her memorable appearance as
Jill Masterson in 1964's
Goldfinger The image of
her golden body became an icon of the sixties after appearing on the
cover of Life magazine. Auric Goldfinger's paidescort, she faces his
wrath after helping Bond to foil his money winning card scam and dies
from skin suffocation from being spray painted gold.
Most memorable quote
Jill: "I'm beginning to like you, Mr. Bond."
Pussy Galore
Athletic, husky-voiced and ridiculously named, Pussy Galore is
Goldfinger 's personal pilot. Strongly played by Honor Blackman, Pussy
is a memorable Bond girl with a dislike for men. With her team of female
pilots (Pussy Galore's Flying Circus), she helps to foil Goldfinger's
plan to break into Fort Knox by replacing the canisters of deadly gas
she was supposed to spray around the gold reserve with a harmless
substitute.
Most memorable quote
Pussy: My name is Pussy Galore.
Bond: I must be dreaming.
Domino Derval
The mistress of SPECTRE's number two (Emilio Largo),
Domino Derval is played by the beautiful Claudine Auger, a former Miss
France. In Thunderball,
Domino betrays her guardian when Bond informs her that Largo was
responsible for her brother's death. She then helps 007 track down two
missing nuclear devices and foil SPECTRE's plan.
Most memorable quote
Bond: I've been
admiring your form.
Domino: What sharp
little eye's you've got.
Fiona Volpe
Dangerous, deadly, but incredibly sexy,
Thunderball's
Fiona Volpe is a strong, self-willed SPECTRE operative. Sent to put an
end to Bond's interference, Fiona, played by the enchanting Luciana
Paluzzi, refuses to give in to Bond's masculine charms, but is
accidentally killed by one of her own men.
Most memorable quote
Fiona: "Do you like
wild things, Mr. Bond, James Bond?"
Patricia Fearing
A trained masseuse working at the heath club
visited by Bond, Patricia Fearing (played by Molly Peters ) soon submits
to 007's amorous advances. In
Thunderball,
she unwittingly puts Bond into a dangerous situation by strapping him to
"the rack". He repays her well, however, with a massage with a mink
glove.
Most memorable quote
Patricia: Any time,
any place.
Bond: Another time,
another place..
Aki
007's Japanese guardian angel,
You
Only Live Twice's Aki saves Bond's life on more than
one occasion. Played by Akiko Wakabayashi, and driving a Toyota 2000GT
convertible, Allures 007 into Tiger Tanaka's secret headquarters with
considerable ease. Unfortunately, she meets an untimely end when a ninja
assassin misses his target.
Most memorable quote
Aki: I think I will
enjoy very much serving under you."
Kissy Suzuki
Played by Mie Hama, Kissy is the first girl who
Bond marries, albeit as a cover, in
You Only Live
Twice . A Japanese Ama girl who makes her living
diving for shells, she also works for the secret service and assists 007
in his search for SPECTRE's hidden rocket launching base.
Most memorable quote
Bond: We're supposed
to be on honeymoon..
Kissy: Think again,
please. This is business.
Tracy Draco
Perhaps one of the strongest of all Bond girls,
Tracy Draco is also the only one James fell in love with. In
On Her
Majesty's SecretService , Tracy (played by Avenger's star Diana Rigg)
wins Bond's heart and he asks her to marry him. Sadly, the new Mrs. Bond
is gunned down by Irma Bundt, Blofeld's sinister henchwoman, just
minutes after the wedding.
Most memorable quote
Bond: I love you. I'll
never find another girl like you. Will you marry me?
Plenty O'Toole
Although she doesn't last long in
Diamonds Are Forever , Plenty O'Toole, played by Lana
Wood, is memorable simply for her introduction. She meets Bond in a Las
Vegas casino, but makes a swift exit through his bedroom window.
Most memorable quote
Plenty: Hi, I'm
Plenty.
Bond: But of course
you are.
Plenty: Plenty
O'Toole.
Bond: Named after your
father, perhaps ?
Tiffany Case
An American diamond smuggler with skimpy dresses
and ever-changing hair colour, Tiffany Case gets caught up in much more
than she bargained for when Peter Franks arrives on her doorstep. In
Diamonds Are
Forever , Tiffany, played by Jill St.John, "helps" Bond follow the
path of the smuggled diamonds until the trail leads to Ernst Stavro
Blofeld.
Most memorable quotes
Tiffany: I'm
co-operating Mr. Leiter.
Bond: Oh, I can vouch
for that.
Solitaire
Making her big screen debut, Jane Seymour plays
a rather naive tarot card reader in the service of Mr. Big in
Live And
Let Die . Trusting a little too much in a stacked deck, Solitaire
succumbs to Bond's advances and loses her powers of perception, but
gains freedom for her egotistical boss.
 
Most memorable quote
Bond turns over a tarot card: the Fool
Solitaire: You have
found yourself.
Mary Goodnight
The Man With
The Golden Gun, Mary Goodnight is Bond's beautiful but inept contact
in the Far East. She attempts to prove her worth, but ends up
unwittingly bundled into the boot of a flying car. Played to frustrating
perfection by Britt Ekland, Goodnight starts out in hostile rejection of
Bond's amorous advances, but soon succumbs to his sophisticated charms.
Most memorable quote
"Do you mean I've been in here for two hours
?"
Anya Amasova
Hailed as the first liberated Bond girl, Major
Anya Amasova of the Russian Army is 007's Russian counterpart in
The Spy Who
Loved Me . Code named XXX, Anya, like Bond, has never failed on a
mission, and cleverly outwits and out thinks 007 on more than one
occasion. Played well by Barbara Bach (the wife of Ringo Starr), Anya
manages to play both the strong secret agent and the damsel in distress
without an incongruous disparity.
Most memorable quote
Golgol: As a gesture
of good will, I am willing to make available the micro film recovered by
XXX.
Anya: With
considerable ease, I might add.
The Log Cabin Girl
Saucily played by Sue Vanner , Bond's log cabin
interest in The Spy WhoLoved Me is actually a Soviet double agent with orders to
seduce 007. When she can no longer keep him otherwise occupied, the girl
radios her KGB allies to inform them of Bond's where abouts.
Most memorable quote
Girl: But, James, I
need you.
Bond: So does England!
Naomi
Stromberg's beautiful assistant, Naomi (played
by the stunning Caroline Munro) is not only an excellent hostess, but
also a helicopter pilot with a deadly aim. In
The Spy Who
Loved Me , after allowing 007 and XXX to leave
Stromberg's Atlantis headquarters, she tries to gun them down in their
Lotus Esprit.
Most memorable quote
Bond: What a handsome
craft. Such lovely lines.
Holly Goodhead
The most intelligent of the Bond girls to date,
Dr. Holly Goodhead, played by Lois Chiles, is a NASA trained
astrophysicist working for the CIA. In
Moonraker
,she teams up with Bond and pilots the shuttle which takes them to
Drax's hidden space station.
Most memorable quote
Bond: A woman!
Holly: Your powers of
observation do you credit, Mr. Bond.
Corinne Dufour
Moonraker's
Corinne Dufour is Drax's personal helicopter pilot. Played by the
beautiful Corinne Clery, Dufour is seduced by 007, and helps him to
unlock Drax's secrets. Drax does not appreciate her sweet nature,
however, and has her mercilessly hunted down by a pair of vicious dogs.
Most memorable quote
Bond: There, you see,
you have a heart of gold.
Melina Havelock
Melina Havelock, played by Chanel model Carole
Bouquet, is a Greek marine biologist whose parents are killed in
Kristatos' search for the ATAC.
In For Your
Eyes Only , while seeking revenge for their deaths,
she saves Bond's life and follows him on the trail that leads to the
stolen defense system.
 
Most memorable quote
"Greek women, like Elektra, always avenge
their loved ones."
Bibi Dahl
The sweet and supposedly innocent Bibi (played
byHolly-Johnson ) is Kristatos' ice skating protoge in
For
Your Eyes Only . With her tutor, Jacoba Brink, she is
training under Kristatos' sponsorship for the winter Olympics. However,
she tries to seduce 007, then walks out on her guardian who has lost her
trust. She finally finds another sponsor in Columbo, another Greek
smuggler.
Most memorable quote
Bond: Yes, well, you
get your clothes on, and I'll buy you an ice cream.
Domino Petachi
Kim Basinger's first big movie appearance was as
Domino in Kevin McClory's
Thunderball
remake,
Never Say
Never Again . Playing almost exactly the same character as Claudine
Auger, Basinger's Domino is somewhat two-dimensional. Again, Domino is
Largo's mistress, but betrays him when 007 informs her of her brother's
death at the hands of her guardian's henchmen during a very memorable
tango.
Most memorable quote
Domino: I don't know
if I want him enough to risk losing you.
Bond: Well, I don't
want to risk losing me either.
Fatima Blush
Barbara Carrera makes SPECTRE assassin Fatima
lushan incredibly over the-top villainess with a massive ego-complex.
Stealing some of the scenes in
Never Say
Never Again , Blush is Max Largo's key henchwoman.
Most memorable quote
Fatima: Oh, how
reckless of me. I've made you all wet.
Bond: Yes, but my
Martini's still dry.
Octopussy
Octopussy
runs a circus as a cover for an elaborate smuggling scheme, which puts
her on the wrong side of 007. Although they are two of a kind, he
rejects her business propositions in favor of his more amorous ones.
Octopussy is played by Maud Adams, who also played Scaramanga's
girlfriend in
The Man With
The GoldenGun.
Most memorable quote
"I don't have to answer to you, a trained
assassin, for what I am."
Stacy Sutton
A San Francisco based geologist, Stacy
Sutton, played by the beautiful Tanya Roberts, is paid off
by Max Zorin for old mines which he needs as part of his nefarious plan.
In A View To
AKill , she meets Bond at Zorin's party, and later helps 007 to
unravel Project Main Strike, the villain's scheme to destroy Silicon
Valley. Her quote should really be "Oh, James", as that's all she ever
says.
Most memorable quote
Bond: Now I shall be
all alone.
Stacy: Oh, I doubt
that.
Pola Ivanova
A Russian agent from Bond's past, Pola Ivanova,
played by Fiona Fullerton , turns up just in time to save Bond from
trouble in A
View To A Kill . She falls foul of his slight of hand however, when
he swaps her hard earned recording of Zorin's plans for a lovely
collection of soothing Japanese music.
Most memorable quote
"The bubbles. They tickle my ...
Tchaikovsky!"
Kara Milovy
A celebrated concert cellist, Kara Milovy is
setup by her boyfriend, General Georgi Koskov, as the sniper to make his
defection look real. Saved only by 007's instincts, in
The
Living Daylights, she is unwittingly enlisted by Bond
to track down the missing General. Played naively by Maryam D'Abo,
Olivia's cousin, Kara falls for Bond on the search for Koskov.
Most memorable quote
Kara: They're looking
for a man and a woman...
Bond: And a cello.
Pam Bouvier
Pam Bouvier is the only living contact the CIA
have on Franz Sanchez. In
Licence To Kill Bond uses her information to get into
the drug baron's organization and exact his revenge. Carey Lowell plays
Pam as a stronger Bond girl than most, and makes her presence felt by
her character as well as her looks.
Most memorable quote
"Out of gas. I haven't heard that one in a
longtime."
Lupe Lamora
Talisa Soto plays Lupe, Sanchez's mistress in
Licence
To Kill . A pretty girl who is punished unmercifully by her lover for
trying to run away, Lupe helps Bond to win Sanchez's confidence in an
effort to escape his clutches.
Most memorable quote
"I love James so much."
Natalya Siminova
Natalya, played by Polish model and rock singer
Izabella Scorupco , is a level two programmer at the Severnaya Space
Installation before it is destroyed by a blast from one of the two
Goldeneye satellites. She is tied up with Bond in a stolen Tiger helicopter, and
later helps him to track down the villain's hidden base and thwart his
dastardly plan.
Most memorable quote
Bond: That's what
keeps me alive.
Natalya: No, that's
what keeps you alone.
Xenia Onatopp
An ex-Soviet pilot and KGB assassin, Xenia
Onatopp kills her victims by crushing them to death with her shapely
thighs. In
Goldeneye , she now works for the Janus
syndicate. Played by Columbia University graduate Famke Janssen , Xenia
gets a kick from killing and lives life on the edge.
Most memorable quote
Xenia: You don't need
the gun
Bond: That depends on
your definition of safe sex
Paris Carver
Paris Carver is one of bonds past lovers and
wife of evil media mogul Elliot Carver. Played well by Teri Hatcher in
Tomorrow
Never Dies. Paris confronts bond about the break-up of their
relationship. She accuses him of ending it because she was getting to
close to him. But it seems that now they are going to get close again .
Bond offers to 'rescue' Paris from her marriage to Carver, but she
refuses. She will however, do him one favour: she tells Bond the where
abouts of a secret lab owned by Carver Media group. Elliot finds this
out and gets Dr Kaufman to kill her.
Wai Lin
The most prominent woman in the male-dominated
world of Asian action films, Michelle Yeoh is a truly international star.
Michelle Yeoh plays Chinese agent Wai Lin gorgeous sexy intelligent and
on a par with bond . Wai Lin terms up with Bond to help stop evil media
mogul Elliot Carver starting world war three.
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