Stick with Honor Blackman, personally... "Bond slowly regained consciousness. In his groggy stupor, he became bluntly aware of pains all over his body. His head ached as if it were composed entirely of vodka martinis. He felt both shaken and stirred. It must have been quite a night, Bond thought. His eyes crept open. It seemed to take all his strength to force them to focus. Within a few seconds, he could make out a face — an extremely attractive face. It belonged to a woman in her mid-30s, perhaps a little older. Her thick, blonde hair was arranged in a bouffant bob, and her sensuous lips were cruelly smirking at him. ‘Who are you?’ Bond croaked. ‘My name is Pussy Galore.’ Now it was Bond’s turn to smirk. ‘I must be dreaming,’ he replied. They held each other’s gaze. Bond was immediately attracted to her, but there was something about the constancy of this particular woman’s stare that indicated his usual dominance over the opposite sex had been temporarily weakened. Besides, the tranquilliser gun in Pussy’s right hand suggested the only business she meant was strictly impersonal . . . No one who has ever watched Goldfinger, the third James Bond film, can forget the stunning entrance of the character Pussy Galore. Played by Honor Blackman, there has never been a better Bond girl in the 50 years since the film was released. In fact, it is hard to think of a sexier, funnier, tougher, and more formidable woman even outside the Bond franchise. Pussy Galore is not only a brilliant pilot, she is also highly proficient in judo, enough — for a while at least — to withstand Bond’s lecherous advances in a stable. And she is not just a physical match for the British secret agent; her wit is just as sharp. It therefore comes as fantastic news for Bond aficionados that the character of Pussy Galore is going to be revived by the bestselling author Anthony Horowitz in his novel, Trigger Mortis — the latest instalment in a series of books based on Ian Fleming’s hero, written by modern authors. Horowitz has so far revealed that his story, to be published in September, will begin in 1957 — two weeks after the end of Fleming’s novel Goldfinger. What the author has not yet revealed is whether his version of Pussy Galore will, like the version in Fleming’s book, be openly lesbian. In the film, Pussy’s sexuality — which is finally ‘overcome’ by Bond — is only ever hinted at when she repels 007’s advances with the words: ‘You can turn off the charm, I’m immune.’ At the time, it was reckoned by the filmmakers that the censors would never allow an openly-lesbian character to appear in a family film. Of course, one of the best aspects about Pussy Galore is her name, with its deliciously racy double-entendre that had many Sixties moviegoers spluttering into their popcorn. But now, thanks to the release of some highly secret government papers, the story of the woman from whom Fleming drew inspiration for the character can now finally be told. Astonishingly enough, the real woman was also called Pussy, although her surname was to have no double meaning — Deakin. Just like her fictional counterpart, Pussy Deakin was brave, beautiful and resourceful. She even married a British secret agent and Oxford don — and it was through this marriage that she would meet Fleming. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the real Pussy was not born with that name. When she arrived in the world in Bucharest, Romania, on August 7, 1916, she was called Livia Stela Nasta, and was the daughter of a distinguished Romanian journalist who worked as a newspaper editor. We know little about her early life, but by the outbreak of war in 1939, when she was 23, she was a secretary at the Ministry of Cooperation in Bucharest. For the first year of war, Livia’s homeland was to remain neutral, but by late 1940, a fascist coup saw Romania joining the Axis powers. In March 1941, Livia decided to flee. Like her father, she was an avowed anti-fascist, and she bravely decided to do her bit to rid Romania of fascism. Travelling via Belgrade and Budapest, Livia arrived in Athens on March 29. From there, she somehow managed to make contact with the British. She soon found a job in Egypt, working as a secretary for the Squadron Leader at the RAF’s 2nd Photographic Reconnaissance Unit in Heliopolis, a suburb of Cairo. But for the redoubtable Livia, working as a secretary did not offer the kind of hands-on opportunity to really strike back at the hated fascists." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3101536/The-REAL-Pussy-Galore-sexiest-Bond-girl-returns-new-007-novel-untold-story-war-heroine-inspiration-character.html#ixzz3bU0P6Nay
I watch the Bond films a lot......Magda in Octopussy and Melina in For Your Eyes Only were horrible actresses and not much to look at....very dreary....although not major bond girls, Shirley Eaton in Goldfinger and Caroline Munro in the Spy Who Loved Me were up on my list....real eyepoppers! Pussy Galore trained a squad of female pilots to spray ''sleeping'' gas over Fort Knox, so Goldfinger could get the gold
