James Bond Girls
Some good, some bad – but never ugly (on the outside anyway), the women who grace Bond’s adventures are as necessary to 007’s screen existence as his cars, gadgets, and guns – but not necessarily in that order! Some try to woo him while others try to do him (in), but all succumb to the Bond charm in the end.
Take a look at the files of just a few of the women who have graced the world of James Bond 007 and see for yourself.
1. HONEY RYDER
JOB DESCRIPTION: Beachcomber located in Jamaica; makes a living selling seashells in Miami.
EMPLOYER: Self.
MOST MEMORABLE DIALOGUE: (to Bond) “I put a black widow under his mosquito net, a female, and they’re the worst. It took him a whole week to die.” “Did I do wrong?”
ATTRACTION FACTOR: Bond falls for Honey’s child-of-nature allure – plus the fact she looks great in a white bikini!
2. JILL MASTERSON
JOB DESCRIPTION: Kept woman. Villain’s plaything (although she tells Bond she’s only paid to be seen with Goldfinger) and card cheat accomplice.
EMPLOYER: Auric Goldfinger.
MOST MEMORABLE DIALOGUE: (to Bond) “I’m beginning to like you Mr Bond – more than anyone I’ve met in a long time, James.”
ATTRACTION FACTOR: She looks great in a black bikini – and later in Bond’s pyjama top.
3. PUSSY GALORE
JOB DESCRIPTION: Personal Pilot
EMPLOYER: Auric Goldfinger
MOST MEMORABLE DIALOGUE: (to Bond) “Do you want to play it easy – or the hard way?”
ATTRACTION FACTOR: She looks great in the hay (literally). Almost certainly looks pretty good in a bikini.
4. DOMINO DERVAL
JOB DESCRIPTION: Kept woman. Villain's plaything.
EMPLOYER: Emilio Largo MOST MEMORABLE
DIALOGUE: (to Bond) "Promise me you'll kill Largo." (Fair enough - the villain's killed her brother after all!)
ATTRACTION FACTOR: She looks great in a black & white bikini. (Get it? Her name's Domino!)
5. FIONA VOLPE
JOB DESCRIPTION: Assassin
EMPLOYER: SPECTRE (SPecial Executive or Counterintelligence Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) – Execution Branch
MOST MEMORABLE DIALOGUE: (to Bond) “James Bond, who only has to make love to a women and she starts to hear heavenly choirs singing. She repents and immediately returns to the side of right and virtue – but not this one! What a blow it must have been – you having a failure.”
ATTRACTION FACTOR: Looks great clad in black leather biker’s gear – unless of course you’re the driver of the car she’s about to incinerate with her rocket-firing motorbike!
6. TRACY BOND – nee Vincenzo
JOB DESCRIPTION: Doesn’t need one – she’s a Countess!
EMPLOYER: N/A
MOST MEMORABLE DIALOGUE: (to Bond) “You’re very sure of yourself – aren’t you? Suppose I were to kill you for a thrill!”
ATTRACTION FACTOR: She’s loaded – she’s a Countess!
6. MARY GOODNIGHT
JOB DESCRIPTION: Staff Intelligence – Hong Kong
EMPLOYER: British Secret Service
MOST MEMORABLE DIALOGUE: (to Bond) “Oh darling I’m tempted – but killing a few hours as one of your passing fancies isn’t quite my scene.”
ATTRACTION FACTOR: Looks great in all kinds of bikinis – and a baby doll nightie!
7. ANYA AMASOVA
JOB DESCRIPTION: Spy (Agent Triple X)
EMPLOYER: KGB
MOST MEMORABLE DIALOGUE: (to Bond, who has just been wounded) “Why don’t you lie down and let me look at it!”
ATTRACTION FACTOR: Looks great in and out of any number of uniforms.
8. OCTOPUSSY
Maud Adams in the title role of Octopussy
FILM: Octopussy (1983)
JOB DESCRIPTION: Smuggler and Circus owner
EMPLOYER: Self
MOST MEMORABLE DIALOGUE: (to Bond) “…and you are James Bond oo7 licence to kill! Am I to be you’re target for tonight?”
ATTRACTION FACTOR: Heads a large female group of international smugglers. Unfortunately she doesn’t live up to her name.
9. PAM BOUVIER
JOB DESCRIPTION: Contract Pilot
EMPLOYER: CIA
MOST MEMORABLE DIALOGUE: (to Bond) “It’s Ms Kennedy – and why can’t you be my executive secretary?”
ATTRACTION FACTOR: She handles a pump-action shotgun like no woman you’ve ever seen!
10. NATALYA SIMONOVA
JOB DESCRIPTION: Computer Programmer
EMPLOYER: Russian Government – ‘Goldeneye project’
MOST MEMORABLE DIALOGUE: (to Bond) “You think I’m impressed? All of you with your guns you’re killing you’re death – for what? So you can be a hero? All the heroes I know are dead.”
ATTRACTION FACTOR: Can tell the difference between a floppy or hard disk in the dark!
11. WAI LIN
JOB DESCRIPTION: Secret Agent
EMPLOYER: Chinese People’s External Security Force
MOST MEMORABLE DIALOGUE: (to Bond) “…it’s mostly dull routine of course, but every now and then, you get to sail on a beautiful evening like this – and sometimes work with a decadent agent of a corrupt Western power.”
ATTRACTION FACTOR: Martial Arts Expert. Petite powerhouse of a woman. Allows a man to lie back and think of England while she does all the work – beating the bad guys into submission!
12. JINX
JOB DESCRIPTION: Secret Agent
EMPLOYER: NSA
MOST MEMORABLE DIALOGUE: (to Bond) Ornithologist, huh? There’s a mouthful (looking south).
(to Bond, while tied up with deadly laser beams spinning randomly around her) James!! Turn them off!! Turn them off or I’ll be half the girl I used to be!!
ATRACTION FACTOR: Doesn’t beat about the bush! This lady casts from the hip and lands what she wants!! Deadly with a pistol and in unarmed combat – but drop-deadly gorgeous in an orange bikini!!!!
