Saturday, July 05, 2008

Bond & Bond Girl @ the Beach

Sean Connery and Ursula Andress in Jamaica in 1962. Aren't they adorable?

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They were filming the Bond classic Dr. No which opened in the US the following summer. Honey Ryder is one of the best Bond girls ever, methinks. The shot of her emerging from the ocean was so choice. It wasn't bested in the franchise until Daniel Craig donned the blue speedo.

Time capsule
They weren't the only ones getting sandy. Lawrence of Arabia opened that year. They weren't the only ones getting wet. Mutiny on the Bounty was up for Best Picture. The Bond franchise wasn't the only classic thing debuting: 1962 also saw the premiere of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf on Broadway, the birth of A listers Jodie Foster and Tom Cruise, the release of The Beatles first single and Spider-Man in comic books. Spidey would get his own powerhouse movie franchise 40 years later.

Oh, and the ground underneath the Bond playthings feet? It had a big year too. Jamaica became independent in 1962.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mmm...methinks Jinx coming ashore tops (so to speak) them all.

Anonymous said...

Xenia Onatopp didn't come out of any ocean (or even don a bikini), but she still beats them all for me.

Anonymous said...

in the top pic, he seems to be in the early stages of gettng interested.

Deborah said...

I just blogged about the films of 1962 and Dr. No a couple of days ago.

Ursula Andress remains one of the best. She was very raw.