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RIP Linda Christian - First Ever Bond Girl

007JamesBond007JamesBond
edited July 2011 in News Posts: 321
RIP

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ikZXjPZRlUU6l8abpF1NmGHEdxxw?docId=CNG.92f5d89415b102936c7ce02a3c5403b5.131

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  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    Posts: 13,350
    Wow, rest in peace. Another part of the legacy gone.
  • dragonskydragonsky
    Posts: 2,491
    Wow, rest in peace. Another part of the legacy gone.
    i dont have to add nothing more
    R.I.P.
  • SirHenryLeeChaChingSirHenryLeeChaChing
    edited July 2011 Posts: 3,494
    Sorry to hear, but I don't consider her to be a Bond girl or part of the Broccoli/Saltzman legacy anymore than Basinger, Carrera, etc. First Bond girl honors go to Ursula Andress, Eunice Gayson, and Zena Marshall.
  • Risico007Risico007
    Posts: 9,770
    I said ti before I'll say it again it would of been nice if Barry Nelson (who was alive at the time) or Linda Christian had a cameo in Casino Royale 2006 a nice nod to a very good tv adaption of Casino Royale despite a few flaws.
  • SirHenryLeeChaChingSirHenryLeeChaChing
    Posts: 3,494
    But it was nice to see Tsai Chin cameo in CR
  • PrinceKamalKhanPrinceKamalKhan Monsoon Palace, Udaipur
    Posts: 3,262
    RIP, Miss Christian.

    Her daughter Taryn Power co-starred with Bond girl extraordinaire Jane Seymour in 1977's "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger" and made her film debut in 1975s "The Count of Monte Cristo" co-starring James Bond villains Louis Jordan and Donald Pleasance.
  • j7wildj7wild Suspended
    Posts: 823
    has anyone seen the TV Casino Royale?

    I haven't!

    I wonder if it's on YouTube!
  • PrinceKamalKhanPrinceKamalKhan Monsoon Palace, Udaipur
    Posts: 3,262
    has anyone seen the TV Casino Royale?

    I haven't!

    I wonder if it's on YouTube!
    It's an extra on the 1967 Peter Sellers CR spoof DVD.

  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    Posts: 13,894
    It was one youtube a while back, I don't know if it still is.


    R.I.P, the first (unofficial) Bond Girl.
  • PrinceKamalKhanPrinceKamalKhan Monsoon Palace, Udaipur
    edited July 2011 Posts: 3,262
    has anyone seen the TV Casino Royale?

    I haven't!

    I wonder if it's on YouTube!
    It was one youtube a while back, I don't know if it still is.
    Here it is:













    I like Michael Pate's take on Leiter(here English and with the first name of Clarence). He played an Apache chief one year earlier in the John Wayne western "Hondo".
  • j7wildj7wild Suspended
    Posts: 823
    Thanks PrinceKamalKhan

    hey, after watching it, I may change 40 years of opinion and say he is the BEST BOND ever!!

  • PrinceKamalKhanPrinceKamalKhan Monsoon Palace, Udaipur
    Posts: 3,262
    Thanks PrinceKamalKhan
    You're welcome, sir. :)
    hey, after watching it, I may change 40 years of opinion and say he is the BEST BOND ever!!

    Well, he ought to be at least one Bond fan's favorite. The main other role I remember Barry Nelson playing is that of Dean Martin's co-pilot in the blockbuster disaster epic "Airport"(1970).

  • BounineBounine
    Posts: 2,598
    RIP Linda Christian. The very first Bond girl!

    I have this film on VHS. I need to get it on DVD presuming it's available on DVD.
  • mdo007mdo007 Katy, Texas
    edited January 2013 Posts: 259
    Risico007 wrote:
    I said ti before I'll say it again it would of been nice if Barry Nelson (who was alive at the time) or Linda Christian had a cameo in Casino Royale 2006 a nice nod to a very good tv adaption of Casino Royale despite a few flaws.

    Yes, it sad Barb and Michael didn't get that chance. But at least she got to appear on the Road to Casino Royale special feature on Casino Royale blu-ray (and the special edition DVD).

    I read it that she has 8 grandchildren, I'm not sure if any of them are girls and if they're actresses, you know what would be cool, if the granddaughters are actresses (or models) and their age are between 20s-late 30s, and whether if they're famous or not, I would love it if one of them ended up getting the role of Bond girls in future Bond films I can imagine it:

    Today (insert name of Linda Christian granddaughter) has announced that she'll play the new Bond girl in the upcoming James Bond film which is not named yet. In an ironic new twist, this new Bond girl is also the granddaughter of Linda Christian, who played the first Bond girl, Valerie Mathis in the 1954 Climax! adaptation of Casino Royale, 8 years before Dr. No came out in 1962. (last name of Christian's granddaughter) said this to the press "My grandmother played the first Bond girl in 1954, and it was 8 years before Ursula Andress in Dr. No, I am honored to bring my Grandmother legacy by playing as a Bond girl for this new Bond film. My grandma would be so proud of me for taking this role if she was alive. I want to thank the producers at EON for casting me for this role." Bond scholars has been debating on who was the first Bond girls, it was thought Ursula Andress, and Eunice Grayson were considered first Bond girls. Others have said Linda Christian was considered a Bond girl way before the formation of EON and the official first Bond film Dr. No in 1962. The debate will continue but this will be the first time a Bond girl actress who has a relative that previously played a Bond girl in earlier film.
    SirHenryLeeChaChing wrote:
    Sorry to hear, but I don't consider her to be a Bond girl or part of the Broccoli/Saltzman legacy anymore than Basinger, Carrera, etc. First Bond girl honors go to Ursula Andress, Eunice Gayson, and Zena Marshall.

    So what about real-life Bond girls like Playboy playmate, Lisa Dergan who appear on Raymond Benson's Midsummer Night Doom:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Dergan

    Is she not a Bond girl?

  • Villiers53Villiers53
    Posts: 802
    PrinceKamalKhan wrote:
    <blockquote rel="j7wild">Thanks PrinceKamalKhan</blockquote>

    You're welcome, sir. :)

    <blockquote rel="j7wild">hey, after watching it, I may change 40 years of opinion and say he is the BEST BOND ever!!

    </blockquote>

    Well, he ought to be at least one Bond fan's favorite. The main other role I remember Barry Nelson playing is that of Dean Martin's co-pilot in the blockbuster disaster epic "Airport"(1970).
    SirHenryLeeChaChing wrote:
    Sorry to hear, but I don't consider her to be a Bond girl or part of the Broccoli/Saltzman legacy anymore than Basinger, Carrera, etc. First Bond girl honors go to Ursula Andress, Eunice Gayson, and Zena Marshall.

    I fear SirHenryLeeChaChing is being a little disingenuous and factually incorrect.
    Of course Linda Christian was the first Bond girl!
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