All the Hottest Bond Girls

Barbara Bach - The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

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As KGB officer Major Amasova of the Soviet army - a Russian code-named Agent XXX, she was assigned by General Gogol (Walter Gotell), the KGB's head, to investigate the disappearance of a Russian submarine. At the same time, Bond (Moore) was investigating the disappearance of a British sub. Both vessels were apparently abducted by a mysterious giant underwater craft. Amasova and Bond met in the city of Cairo at the Giza Pyramids during a pyramid light show. In the plot, villainous, racist shipping tycoon/magnate Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens) was intent on drowning all life on Earth except for his own underwater hideout named Atlantis - his scheme for world domination was to aim the missiles of the stolen submarines at various strategic targets to flood everything. After Bond killed Amasova's lover, a fellow Russian agent during a downhill ski chase in Austria, she sought revenge until she fell in love with 007 when he saved her life from attack by Stromberg's gigantic henchman Jaws (Richard Kiel). She was the first liberated Bond girl. When they talked about survival strategies, Bond agreed with her when she suggested: "When necessary, shared bodily warmth." In the final scene in an escape pod when in bed with Amasova, Bond explained to his superiors what he was doing: "Keeping the British end up, Sir." She was the "first girl-power Bond beauty" who posed for Playboy to promote the Bond film.

Britt Ekland - The Man With the Golden Gun (1974)

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Bond (Moore) attempted to assassinate "The Man with the Golden Gun" Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee), allied with ditzy and inept blonde British Secret Service assistant Mary Goodnight, in this Bond installment. He sought to acquire the Solex Agitator - a device powerful enough to harness the energy of the sun - during the current energy crisis.Bond first met her when she pulled in front of his taxi during a pursuit scene. In another scene, she was thrown in a hotel closet while Bond had sex with Scaramanga's deceitful mistress Miss Anders (Maud Adams) (who revealed her nakedness under her bathrobe), afterwards promising the sensuous Goodnight: "Your turn will come, I promise." She was also thrown in Scaramanga's Flying Matador car trunk during a chase sequence through Bangkok. In the end, she helped to detonate the villain's private Yellow Sea island after the bad man's death, escaping with Bond in Scaramanga's Chinese junk.

Jane Seymour - Live and Let Die (1973)

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Solitaire was a naive, sensual, virginal Tarot card-reader, who worked for crime-drug lord and San Monique's evil foreign minister Kananga/Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto). He was seeking control of the North American heroin market. The heroine had to remain chaste in order to retain her mystical, psychic powers and keep herself from danger. In her first meeting with Bond (Moore) at the Fillet of Soul restaurant, when she performed a Tarot card reading, he picked up The Lovers card and asked her, prophetically: "Us?" She was later tricked by him into losing her virginity with a fixed tarot deck (composed completely of The Lovers cards). After lovemaking, he told her: "The deck was slightly stacked in my favor...Come on, cheer up, darling. There must be a first time for everyone." She eventually assisted Bond in combating Kananga and defeating his evil plans. By film's end, he rescued Solitaire on San Monique and killed Kananga.

Jill St. John - Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

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Bond (Connery) was involved in preventing the takeover of the world diamond market by villainous Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Charles Grey) who was stockpiling gems, intent on selling them to the highest bidder to attain nuclear supremacy. Tiffany Case was a devious, sly, redheaded (although she often changed hair color) voluptuous American diamond smuggler (working as a fence for the 'Spangled Mob' - an American cartel smuggling diamonds out of Africa), who first met Bond in Amsterdam and then eventually assisted him. When she appeared in a satiny bra and brunette wig at the doorway, Bond asked: "Weren't you a blonde when I came in?" She replied: "Could be." He further added: "I tend to notice little things like that, whether a girl's a blonde or a brunette." She asked provocatively: "And which do you prefer?" She was most memorable wearing a purple bikini (into the back of which Bond had earlier stuffed a cassette tape control mechanism) and running around with a machine gun (that propelled her off the deck) during the final battle on the burning Baja oil rig.

Lana Wood - Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

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In her very short role, this buxom Bond girl introduced herself to Bond (Connery) in a Las Vegas casino, when she heard him wagering $10,000 at the craps table. She gave him her suggestive name as she leaned over presenting her cleavage in her low-cut purple dress: "Hi, I'm Plenty!" to which Bond replied as he looked downward: "But of course you are." She added: "Plenty O'Toole," to which Bond quipped: "Named after your father, perhaps?" She was given $5,000 for her "help." She was soon tossed out of Bond's 10-story hotel bedroom window, surviving certain death by landing in a pool. She was later drowned at the hands of murderous, soft-spoken homosexual assassin Mr. Wint (Bruce Glover) and nearly-bald Mr. Kidd (Putter Smith), in a case of mistaken identity, in Tiffany Case's (Jill St. John) pool.

Diana Rigg - On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

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Teresa was a tragic, daring, suicidal, lovelorn, headstrong Mafia heiress; however, she had skillful driving, skiing, and fighting abilities, but also a penchant for drinking and gambling foolishly. She was the adventurous, independent-spirited, pretty daughter of Draco (Gabriele Ferzetti), who was assisting Bond (Lazenby) against the villainous SPECTRE head Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas), who was scheming to blackmail the world with the threat of massive destruction. She first met Bond on a deserted Portugal coast beach, when he rescued her from committing suicide by walking into the ocean. She assisted Bond in escaping from Blofeld in Switzerland. In the shocking and tearjerking ending of this film, the British secret service 007 agent senselessly lost his newlywed wife Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo or Tracy Bond - the only Bond girl to every marry Bond - only moments after their Portugal wedding when villainous attempted to kill Bond -- Blofeld's henchwoman Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat) strafed their honeymoon Aston Martin car from his black Mercedes 600 sedan with MP-40 submachine gun fire in a drive-by shooting and then drove away, as Louis Armstrong's mournful and ironic rendition of "We Have All the Time In the World" played. She was hit in the forehead by a bullet through the windshield and instantly killed, shortly after their wedding.

Claudine Auger - Thunderball (1965)

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Domino was the love-starved mistress of "guardian" SPECTRE Number 2 villain Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi), who was intent on stealing nuclear warheads and blackmailing NATO. She was also the sister of Major Francois Derval (Paul Stassino), unwittingly used in SPECTRE's scheme. She first met Bond (Connery) during a diving trip at Nassau in the Bahamas, when she was caught on some coral and Bond extricated her. She had a birthmark on her left thigh. She began to trust him after he convinced her that Largo had killed her brother, a NATO bomber pilot. When they met, Bond knew her nickname and she inquired how: "How do you know my friends call me Domino?" Bond: "It's on the bracelet on your ankle." Domino: "So... what sharp little eyes you've got." Bond: "Wait 'til you get to my teeth." In the end, she was the one who killed Largo (Domino: "I'm glad I killed him" Bond (relieved): "You're glad?") with a harpoon, and was left with Bond in a life raft by the film's closing awaiting rescue. [Trivia note: In one of her earlier roles, Kim Basinger also played Domino in the unofficial remake Never Say Never Again (1983).]

Honor Blackman - Goldfinger (1964)

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With the most memorable (and improbable) Bond girl name in the film series' history. She introduced herself to a tranquilized Bond (Connery) who awakened on Goldfinger's jet: "My name is Pussy Galore." Bond replied: "I must be dreaming." He also told her: "You're a woman of many parts, Pussy!" She was a pilot for villain Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) intent on spraying deadly Delta-9 nerve gas over Fort Knox to ultimately destabilize the western economy - she was one of a team of all-female pilots, Pussy Galore's Flying Circus, possibly lesbian-leaning. She often took a stance with her hands on hips, and as she held a gun on Bond, said: "Do you want to play it easy, or the hard way?" She wrestled with Bond in the hay in a horse stable, something that convinced her of the appeal of heterosexuality as he lowered himself down on her and kissed her. By film's end after helping Bond (by switching the gas canisters), she was kissing him under a parachute after the demise of Goldfinger.

Martine Beswick - From Russia With Love (1963)

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Martine Beswick starred as cat-fighting fiery gypsy wench Zora. She engaged in the famous "catfight" scene with her gypsy rival Vida (played by former Miss Israel Aliza Gur), fighting to the death for the affections of the same man. When the fight was cut short, Bond (Connery) was allowed to spend the night with the girl of his choice.

Daniela Bianchi - From Russia With Love (1963)

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A low-level Soviet (Istanbul) embassy cypher clerk/employee with a Russian name, Tatiana, was hired by evil terrorist organization SPECTRE member/officer Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya), under orders from Ernst Blofeld (Anthony Dawson), to seduce and destroy Bond (Connery) in order to avenge the killing of Dr. No. She was to entice him (through her companionship and the promise of defection) to acquire a Lektor code machine from the Russians, an encryption or crytopgraphic device, so that SPECTRE could kill him. She revealed that she had fallen in love with him through a personnel photo. She first encountered Bond by awaiting him in bed (wearing only a sexy black velvet choker) in his Istanbul hotel suite, unaware that they were being filmed through a one-way mirror during their subsequent love-making. At one point, she asked Bond: "Will you make love to me all the time in England?" - part of a personal deal in which he would take her back to England (on the Orient Express) with the decoder. When she confessed: "I think my mouth is too big," Bond replied: "It's just the right size - for me that is." The film ended with the romantic pair sailing away in a Venice gondola after Tatiana shot Klebb (who was disguised as a maid, with a dagger-tipped shoe with poison venom).

Ursula Andress - Dr. No (1962)

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In the film's most unforgettable sequence, Bond (Connery) awakened to the sound of a girl's voice singing "Underneath the Mango Tree." On the Crab Key beach rising Venus-like from the water with giant seashells that she was poaching, Bond had his first view of Honey Ryder, an innocent, voluptuous native island girl/diver wearing a sexy, white bikini and hunting knife. Honey asked: "What are you doing here? Looking for shells?" Bond (glibly) replied: "No, I'm just looking." [Note: In the original Ian Fleming 1958 novel, Honeychile emerged from the water naked.] She explained how she didn't go to school, but resourcefully learned everything as a child by reading a set of encyclopedias ("I started at A when I was eight, now I've reached T. I bet I know a lot more things than you do!"). When she was taken captive with Bond by Dr. No, they both had to take decontamination showers. By film's end, Bond rescued her from drowning and they escaped Crab Key in one of Dr. No's boats - conveniently running out of gas.