...is the woman Bond dances with at the Kiss Kiss Club (before Fiona cuts in). Just a *gorgeous* face!
Domino a close second, obviously, with Paula hot on her heels. And Moneypenny still had her fastball, too.
Paula played by Martine Beswick
They were all pretty good Bond girls. In this movie I particularly liked the Fiona character (portrayed by Luciana Paluzzi). Anyway, of particular note, with her is the scene when she is found in James Bond's bathtub; taking a bath-nude of course (a direct opposite to a previous scene when a wannabe hitman is found hiding in the bathtub with the shower curtain drawn). In the Blu Ray DVD she gets out of the bathtub with some remaining modesty by taking a towel on top of her head and using that to cover herself when standing up in the tub. The scene of her getting out of the tub is somewhat clipped.
But, I remember seeing this film on its theatrical run and in that scene, shown relatively uncut, the towel covers her front (breasts and bush) but there is a very good side look where one can see she really is nude and can see her back and rear curves quite well. That was about the limit of what they could show at the time (1965), and I guess that boosted the modern day rating of the film from PG to "R". Do any of the DVDs have this extended "bathtub exit) scene on them?
In this movie I particularly liked the Fiona character (portrayed by Luciana Paluzzi).
I would like for someone to answer that question!
shareThe woman Bond briefly dances with was former model Diane Hartford, at the time the wife of U.S. millionaire Huntington Hartford (who owned Paradise Island in the Bahamas, where some of "Thunderball" was filmed) -- and she WAS gorgeous!
They were all beautiful, but I've always been drawn to Molly Peters as Patricia the nurse.
shareAll the women in this movie were beautiful, but Claudine Auger was truly stunning. She was a former Miss France, but was actually not the first choice to play Domino. Cubby Brocoli wanted Raquel Welch for the part, but she was tied up filming "Fantastic Voyage" at the time. As it turns out, Auger got the role and was terrific, and Welch was wonderful in "Voyage", which was a great success. But I am sure that Raquel would have made a super Bond girl though, and I am surprised that Brocoli did not pursue her for any future Bond films. (Or perhaps he did and she was just not interested, I don't know. A contributing factor may be that most Bond girls were relatively unknown at the time of their appearance in the Bond film; apparently that is the way that Brocoli preferred it, and Raquel after "Voyage" may have become too famous in her own right to be a Bond girl.)
shareCheck this out:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4181900032/nm0000805?ref_=nmmd_md_nxt
"Cum Grano Salis"
Bond didn't bang Paula, did he?
shareDomino, easily
so many movies, so little time
i like that masseuse Molly Peters..
shareDomino.
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