Posted in People, Photography, Portraits, tagged Bond girls, Casino Royale, James Bond, Linda Christian, Tarzan films on November 28, 2014| 5 Comments »
Linda Christian was a Mexican-born, United States-based film actress, who appeared in Mexican and Hollywood films. Her career reached its peak in the 1940s and 1950s. She played Mara in the last Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan film, Tarzan and The Mermaids (1948). She is also noted for being the first Bond girl, appearing in a 1954 television adaptation of the James Bond novel Casino Royale.
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Posted in Actors, Movies, People, tagged Ian Fleming, James Bond, Sean Connery on July 19, 2014| 4 Comments »
I can just as well admit it at once, I’m a James bond buff. I got all Fleming’s books both in worn paperbacks from my younger days and nice bookshelf hard cores, and I’ve read them all several times. And like with most real Bond buffs, there is only one James Bond for me; Sean Connery. Apart from Daniel Craig the rest of them are a bunch of sissies. My absolute favourite Bond Movie is Thunderball and my heart soars when I read here that that movie is still the top grossing of all Bond movies. The reason it is my favourite is that it is the Bond movie that has a story line closest to the the original book – Ted
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The Walter PPK was not James Bond’s weapon of choice as it says on the illustration. He was forced to start using that because M found Bond’s weapon of choice, a Beretta 32 cal. with a skeleton grip lacking in stopping power.Watching the movies is not enough, read the books 😉
Image found at my Swedish friend Rincewind’s blog Erotixx
Posted in Movies, The sixties, tagged 1963, Daniela Bianchi, From Russia with love, James Bond, Sean Connery on January 17, 2014| 13 Comments »
…you can’t stand there fiddling with your gun with a lovely woman like that to keep your hands occupied.
Image found at worshipping beauty from a safe distance
Posted in Actresses, Models & starlets, Movies, tagged Daniela Bianchi, From Russia with love, Italian actresses, James Bond on November 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Daniela Bianchi (born 31 January 1942) is an Italian actress, whose best known part was Tatiana Romanova in the 1963 James Bond movie From Russia with Love.
Born in Rome, she was the 1st runner-up in the 1960 Miss Universe contest, where she was also voted Miss Photogenic by the press. Her film career began in 1958. In From Russia with Love her voice was dubbed by Barbara Jefford.
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She made a number of French and Italian movies after From Russia with Love, the last being Scacco Internazionale in 1968. One of her later films was Operation Kid Brother (also known as OK Connery and Operation Double 007), which was a James Bond spoof filmed in English (though Bianchi was again dubbed) and starring Sean Connery’s brother, Neil Connery. In 1970, she retired from acting to marry a Genoan shipping magnate, with whom she has a son.
Posted in British, Movies, tagged James Bond, James Bond Movies on October 16, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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