"the name James Secretan as Bond's cover name while on missions. Bond's number—007—was assigned by Fleming in reference to one of British naval intelligence's key achievements of World War I: the breaking of the German diplomatic code. One of the German documents cracked and read by the British was the Zimmermann Telegram, which was coded 0075, and which was one of the factors that led to the US entering the war. Facially, Bond resembles the composer, singer and actor Hoagy Carmichael. In ""Casino Royale"" Vesper Lynd remarks, ""Bond reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and"
"more with Burton in Disney's 2019 live-action adaptation of ""Dumbo"", co-starring with Colin Farrell and Michael Keaton. In 2018, she was appointed as a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, an honorary award given by the French government. In addition to her acting career, Green did endorsements for Montblanc, Breil, Emporio Armani, Lancôme, Heineken, and Christian Dior's ""Midnight Poison"" perfume, in an advert directed by Wong Kar-wai. In 2018, she was in TV adverts for Jaguar I-Pace. In 2007, Green was voted the sixth-sexiest movie star of all-time by ""Empire."" ""Empire"" also listed her character Vesper Lynd"
"travels to Kazan, Russia, where he finds Vesper Lynd's former lover, Yusef Kabira (Simon Kassianides), a member of Quantum who seduces women with valuable connections, and who is indirectly responsible for her death. Bond tells Kabira's latest target, Corrine Veneau (Stana Katic), a Canadian Intelligence agent, of Kabira's true intentions, thus sparing her Vesper's fate. He allows MI6 to arrest Kabira. Outside, M tells Bond that Greene was found dead in the middle of the desert, shot twice and with engine oil in his stomach. M tells Bond she needs him back; he responds that he never left. Walking away,"
"Athens, Sparta, and every city from Mumbai to Minneapolis, behold the magnificent Eva Green, and tremble!"" Between May 2014 and 2016, Green starred in the Showtime horror drama series ""Penny Dreadful"" as Vanessa Ives. Her performance earned her a nomination for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards. She also played the titular role of Ava Lord in the ""Sin City"" sequel film, """" (2014). In 2016, Green reunited with Tim Burton in ""Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children"", a film based on the 2011 novel by Ransom Riggs. Green would collaborate once"
"the film in protest. Craig, unlike previous actors, was not considered by the protesters to fit the tall, dark, handsome and charismatic image of Bond to which viewers had been accustomed. The ""Daily Mirror"" ran a front-page news story critical of Craig, with the headline, ""The Name's Bland – James Bland"". The next important casting was that of the lead Bond girl, Vesper Lynd. Casting director Debbie McWilliams acknowledged Hollywood actresses Angelina Jolie and Charlize Theron were ""strongly considered"" for the role and Belgian actress Cécile de France had also auditioned, but her English accent ""wasn't up to scratch."" French"
"""Perfect Sense"" (2011). In 2014, she played Artemisia in the ""300"" sequel, """", and Ava Lord in Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez's ""Sin City"" sequel, """". Green is also known for her collaborations with director Tim Burton, starring as Angelique Bouchard in the horror comedy film ""Dark Shadows"" (2012), Miss Alma Peregrine in the fantasy film ""Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children"" (2016), and Colette Marchant in the fantasy film ""Dumbo"" (2019). Green starred as Morgan Pendragon in the Starz historical fantasy series ""Camelot"" (2011). She also starred as Vanessa Ives in the Showtime horror drama series ""Penny Dreadful"" (2014–2016),"
"""Billboard"" Hot 100. Alpert would later contribute a trumpet solo to the title song of the ""unofficial"" 1983 James Bond film ""Never Say Never Again"" (which was sung by Alpert's wife, Lani Hall). The film features the song ""The Look of Love"" performed by Dusty Springfield. It is played in the scene of Vesper Lynd recruiting Evelyn Tremble, seen through a man-size aquarium in a seductive walk. ""The Look of Love"" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song. The song was a Top 10 radio hit at the KGB and KHJ radio stations. It was heard again in"
"necklace was worn by the character Vesper Lynd (played by Eva Green) and kept by Bond after her death. In 2013 Sophie Harley won 'UK Jewellery Designer of the Year'. Clients include:Kate Beckinsale, Naomi Campbell, Judi Dench, Colin Firth, Jerry Hall, and Joss Stone. Sophie Harley Sophie Harley is a British jewellery designer. She is known for designs incorporating charms and a mixture of silver, gold and precious stones. She obtained an MA in 'goldsmithing and jewellery design' from London's Royal College of Art in 1989. In 2002 Harley was commissioned by DeBeers to create a brooch to be awarded"
"Bond girl of all time; IGN named her the best ""femme fatale"", stating, ""This is the girl that broke – and therefore made – James Bond""; and she won a BAFTA and an ""Empire"" award for her performance. Both awards were voted for by the British public. Green portrayed the witch Serafina Pekkala in the 2007 film adaptation of ""The Golden Compass"". Green hoped the religious themes of the book would be preserved, but references to Catholicism were removed from the film. Green next appeared in ""Franklyn"", as the tormented artist Emilia, (who Green compared to real-life figures Sophie Calle"
"based on the same story by Frank Miller. In the film, Ava is portrayed by actress Eva Green, whose role was announced in January 2013. Prior to Green's casting, actresses Rose McGowan and Salma Hayek were rumoured to play Ava, while director Robert Rodríguez and Miller had expressed interest in 2006 for Angelina Jolie to play Ava. Ava Lord Ava Lord is a fictional character in Frank Miller's ""Sin City"" universe, the title character in the graphic novel ""A Dame to Kill For"". An ex-lover of Dwight McCarthy, she manipulates men with her good looks and an innocent facade for"
"then hires Vesper Lynd, a retired agent turned millionaire, to recruit baccarat expert Evelyn Tremble, whom he intends to use to beat SMERSH agent Le Chiffre. Having embezzled SMERSH's money, Le Chiffre is desperate for money to cover up his theft before he is executed. Following up a clue from agent Mimi, Bond persuades his estranged daughter Mata Bond to travel to West Berlin to infiltrate International Mothers' Help, an au pair service that is a cover for a SMERSH training center. Mata uncovers a plan to sell compromising photographs of military leaders from the US, USSR, China and Great"
"explained that the film was always intended for release in 2014 and that they were merely holding the October date for ""Machete Kills"". In May 2014, the Motion Picture Association of America banned a poster of the film featuring Eva Green due to nudity visible through a sheer gown. During initial pre-production following release of the first film in 2005, Angelina Jolie was said to be Rodriguez's first choice in the role of Ava, so much so that he was delaying production to correspond with her pregnancy, according to Rosario Dawson, but subsequent articles throughout the years stated that other"
"Runner"" (1982) with Sean Young, ""Blue Velvet"" (1986) with Isabella Rossellini, ""Basic Instinct"" (1992) with Sharon Stone, ""Damage"" (1992) with Juliette Binoche"", The Last Seduction"" (1994) with Linda Fiorentino, ""To Die For"" (1995) with Nicole Kidman, ""Space Jam"" (1996) with Kath Soucie, ""Lost Highway"" (1997) with Patricia Arquette, ""Cowboy Bebop"" (1998) with Wendee Lee, ""Devil in the Flesh"" (1998) and ""Jawbreaker"" (1999), both with Rose McGowan, ""Original Sin"" (2001) with Angelina Jolie, ""Femme Fatale"" (2002) with Rebecca Romijn, and ""Jennifer's Body"" (2009), with Megan Fox. In 2013, Tania Raymonde played the title role in """". In 2014, Eva Green portrayed"
"franchise. However, Jim Windolf of ""Vanity Fair"" noted that unlike previous Bond girls, Sévérine's name was not constructed from a double entendre. Commentators were divided on how Sévérine compared to previous female characters in ""James Bond"" films. John Boone of ""Entertainment Tonight"" wrote that she was not as fully realized as Vesper Lynd's role in the 2006 film ""Casino Royale"", but felt she was a more promising character than Mary Goodnight from ""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1974) and Octopussy from the 1983 film of the same name. In contrast, ""The New Daily""s Susannah Guthrie dismissed Sévérine, along with"
"for the first time, Bond orders a drink from a barman while at the casino. The drink will later be referred to as a ""Vesper"", after the original Bond girl, Vesper Lynd. A Vesper differs from Bond's usual cocktail of choice, the martini, in that it uses both gin and vodka, Kina Lillet instead of vermouth, and lemon peel instead of an olive. In the same scene Bond gives more details about the Vesper, telling the same barman that vodka made from grain instead of potatoes makes the drink even better. Kina Lillet is no longer available, but can be"
"fifth best of the series, and chose Vesper Lynd as the fourth best Bond girl in the series. Some newspaper columnists and critics were impressed enough by Craig's performance to consider him a viable candidate for an Academy Award nomination. Roger Ebert gave the film a four out of four star rating, and wrote that ""Craig makes a superb Bond ... who gives the sense of a hard man, wounded by life and his job, who nevertheless cares about people and right and wrong,"" and that the film ""has the answers to all my complaints about the 45-year-old James Bond"
"find a good script"". Green supports UNICEF. In 2014, after playing a spiritualist in the TV series ""Penny Dreadful"", she talked about her spiritual side. She said that although she is not religious, she does believe in supernatural forces. In 2017, she revealed that Harvey Weinstein made an inappropriate advance during a business meeting and almost ruined her career. Eva Green Eva Gaëlle Green (; ; born 6 July 1980) is a French actress and model. The daughter of actress Marlène Jobert, she started her career in theatre before making her film debut in Bernardo Bertolucci's ""The Dreamers"" (2003). She"
"use three Bond girls: The first should die ""preferably in Bond's arms"" early, the second a villain whom Bond seduces before she dies in an unusual and gory way midway, and the third survives to the end of the film. In several, the Bond girl is revealed, after her tryst with Bond, to be a villainess. Examples are Fatima Blush (Barbara Carrera) in ""Never Say Never Again"" (1983), Elektra King (Sophie Marceau) in ""The World Is Not Enough"" (1999), and Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike) in ""Die Another Day"" (2002). As of 2013 there have been only two films in which"
"and rejected the offer. The roles went to Donna Reed and Montgomery Clift. Linda Christian died on July 22, 2011, at the age of 87. Linda Christian Linda Christian (November 13, 1923 – July 22, 2011) was a Mexican film actress, who appeared in Mexican and Hollywood films. Her career reached its peak in the 1940s and 1950s. She played Mara in the last Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan film, ""Tarzan and the Mermaids"" (1948). She is also noted for being the first Bond girl, appearing in a 1954 television adaptation of the James Bond novel ""Casino Royale"". In 1963 she starred"
"without them. The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood, originally released in the UK as Hollywood Blue, is a 1980 film starring two-time Bond girl Martine Beswick, Adam West, Phil Silvers, Chris Lemmon, Edie Adams, and Richard Deacon. The film, the last of a trilogy, is loosely based on the life of Xaviera Hollander, a prostitute from the Netherlands, as she attempts to make a film in Hollywood based on her best-selling book about her life. She gets involved with some of the most crooked producers in Hollywood, but beats them at their own game and films"
"Supreme Court decision was published as ""Nothing Green: The Sequel to the Bestselling ""Evelyn"""" (2004, Orion Publishing Group, London). A highly fictionalised account of these events has been recorded in the film ""Evelyn"" (2002), starring Pierce Brosnan (who plays Desmond), Julianna Margulies, Sophie Vavasseur, Stephen Rea, Aidan Quinn and Alan Bates and directed by Bruce Beresford. The film only showed three children, Evelyn and two brothers (Maurice and Dermot), instead of all six of the real-life family's children, and involved no period in England or Jessie Powers. Desmond Doyle Desmond Doyle (1924 - 1986) was an Irish painter, decorator and"
"Viper (actress) Viper (September 12, 1959 – December 24, 2010) was the stage name of Stephanie Green, an American pornographic actress, known for a prominent full body snake tattoo, for co-founding Fans of X-Rated Entertainment with Bill Margold, and for her disappearance in 1991. Green was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, but raised in rural New Hampshire. Green joined the United States Marine Corps, where she served at Camp Lejeune, rising to the rank of corporal. After six years, Green was expelled from the Corps for fraternizing with her superior officers, and worked a year in Baltimore as a prostitute"
"Vivian Reed (silent film actress) Vivian Reed (April 17, 1894 – July 19, 1989) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 36 films between 1914 and 1938. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Reed died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. She was married to film director Alfred E. Green and they had three children—Douglas Green, Hilton A. Green, and Marshall Green—all of whom worked as assistant directors. One of her films, ""The Lad and the Lion"" (1917), was the first adaptation of an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, predating the Tarzan films. As with many early silent films,"
"first bite out of me."" She made her film debut in the 1944 musical comedy ""Up in Arms"", co-starring Danny Kaye and Dinah Shore. This movie also happened to be Danny Kaye's own first film. This film was followed by ""Holiday in Mexico"" (1946), ""Green Dolphin Street"" (1947), and what was perhaps her best-known film, ""Tarzan and the Mermaids"" (1948). She was the subject of a well-known photograph published in the January 1, 1949, issue of ""Vogue"". Christian was the first Bond girl to appear on screen, playing Valerie Mathis (opposite Barry Nelson as James Bond) in the 1954 TV"
"Iva Shepard Iva Shepard (April 23, 1886, Cincinnati, Ohio – January 26, 1973, Arcadia, California) was an American silent film actress. Her most notable film roles were as Zoe Trevor in ""The Haunted Manor"" (1916) and as Nettie Lea in ""The Isle of Love"" (1916). Late in her career, she made guest appearances in two 1955 episodes of the hit TV show ""I Love Lucy"": ""Nursery School"" and ""Don Juan and the Starlets"", as a nurse and maid, respectively. These two roles provided fans who remembered her a chance to hear her voice for what may have been the first"
"a 1954 episode of the CBS television series ""Climax!"" with Barry Nelson as an American Bond, a 1967 film version with David Niven playing ""Sir James Bond"", and a 2006 film in the Eon Productions film series starring Daniel Craig as James Bond. M, the Head of the British Secret Service, assigns James Bond, 007, to play against and bankrupt Le Chiffre, the paymaster for a SMERSH-controlled trade union, in a high-stakes baccarat game at the Royale-les-Eaux casino in northern France. As part of Bond's cover as a rich Jamaican playboy, M also assigns as his companion Vesper Lynd, personal"
"Vance in 1953, a marriage which featured as part of the television show ""Bride and Groom"". They divorced in 1959, and in 1968 she married the film and stage actor Brian Jackson. She and Jackson had a daughter before getting a divorce after a decade of marriage. Their daughter Kate would later appear in the casino scene in the 1995 Bond film ""GoldenEye"". Gayson died on 8 June 2018, aged 90. Eunice Gayson Eunice Gayson (born Eunice Elizabeth Sargaison; 17 March 1928 – 8 June 2018) was an English actress best known for playing Sylvia Trench, James Bond's love interest"
"The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood, originally released in the UK as Hollywood Blue, is a 1980 film starring two-time Bond girl Martine Beswick, Adam West, Phil Silvers, Chris Lemmon, Edie Adams, and Richard Deacon. The film, the last of a trilogy, is loosely based on the life of Xaviera Hollander, a prostitute from the Netherlands, as she attempts to make a film in Hollywood based on her best-selling book about her life. She gets involved with some of the most crooked producers in Hollywood, but beats them at their own game and films the movie"
"long-term contract child in Hollywood,"" having been signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. That same year, she appeared in her favorite film, ""The Last Time I Saw Paris"". Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous short story ""Babylon Revisited"", she played Vicky, the daughter of Van Johnson and Elizabeth Taylor. After her mother dies, Vicky is adopted by her mother's sister, played by Donna Reed. The movie called on her to speak French and to dance ballet. In 1954, she also played a crippled child in a Martin and Lewis film. In 1955, she was in ""The Prodigal"" with Lana Turner. Then she played"
"are always compromises"". ""The Golden Compass"" film stars Dakota Blue Richards as Lyra, Nicole Kidman as Mrs. Coulter, and Daniel Craig as Lord Asriel. Eva Green plays Serafina Pekkala, Ian McKellen voices Iorek Byrnison, and Freddie Highmore voices Pantalaimon. No sequels are planned. ""Compass"" actor Sam Elliott blamed the Catholic Church's opposition for forcing their cancellation, but UK Guardian film critic Stuart Heritage thought that critical ""disappointment"" with the first film may have been the real reason. In November 2015, the BBC announced that it had commissioned a television adaptation of ""His Dark Materials"", to be produced by Bad Wolf"
"the project. Before he left the project, Stone had considered casting Michelle Pfeiffer in the lead role of Eva, and this was confirmed in July 1994. Pfeiffer left the production when she became pregnant with her second child. Parker also considered Glenn Close, along with Streep, to play Eva. In December 1994, Madonna sent Parker a four-page letter explaining that she was the best person to portray Eva and would be fully committed to the role. She also sent him a copy of her ""Take a Bow"" music video as a way of ""auditioning"". Rice believed that Madonna suited the"
"grafts, signs of the wound remain in later Bond books). Then, at the end of the novel, Bond's lover and fellow agent Vesper Lynd—in fact a Soviet double agent—commits suicide when she learns that a SMERSH agent has her under surveillance and that the organisation is planning to kill her. As a result of her death, Bond swears vengeance upon SMERSH, which he calls ""the threat behind the spies, the threat that made them spy"". His revenge begins in the second novel, ""Live and Let Die"", wherein he becomes highly interested in disrupting Mr. Big's financing of Soviet operations upon"
"and Meagan Good, and ""The Woodsman"" with Kevin Bacon in mid 2004. She voiced Major Jones in the video game ""XIII"", as well as one of the villains of the short-lived show Spider-Man Animated Series on MTV. She also featured in the 2008 British movie ""Flashbacks of a Fool"" alongside Daniel Craig. In 2003, Eve starred in the UPN television sitcom, ""Eve"", as a fashion designer named Shelly. The show lasted three seasons until it was cancelled in May 2006. Eve guest starred as Yvette Powell on an episode of ""Third Watch"". She also was a guest star on an"