Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962-1973

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McFarland, Apr 10, 2002 - Performing Arts - 352 pages
Sean Connery began the sixties spy movie boom playing James Bond in Dr. No and From Russia with Love. Their success inspired every studio in Hollywood and Europe to release everything from serious knockoffs to spoofs on the genre featuring debonair men, futuristic gadgets, exotic locales, and some of the world's most beautiful actresses whose roles ranged from the innocent caught up in a nefarious plot to the femme fatale. Profiled herein are 107 dazzling women, well-known and unknown, who had film and television appearances in the spy genre. They include superstars Doris Day in Caprice, Raquel Welch in Fathom, and Ann-Margret in Murderer's Row; international sex symbols Ursula Andress in Dr. No and Casino Royale, Elke Sommer in Deadlier Than the Male, and Senta Berger in The Spy with My Face; and forgotten lovelies Greta Chi in Fathom, Alizia Gur in From Russia with Love, and Maggie Thrett in Out of Sight. Each profile includes a filmography that lists the actresses' more notable films. Some include the actresses' candid comments and anecdotes about their films and television shows, the people they worked with, and their feelings about acting in the spy genre are offered throughout. A list of websites that provide further information on women in spy films and television is also included.
 

Contents

Foreword by Eileen ONeill
1
Beverly Adams
33
Pier Angeli
39
Claudine Auger
46
Alexandra Bastedo
53
Martine Beswicke
60
Jacqueline Bisset
66
Erika Blanc
73
Mary Ann Mobley
218
Rosemary Nicols
227
Luciana Paluzzi
236
Joanna Pettet
242
Dorothy Provine
250
Diana Rigg
256
Tura Satana
264
Nancy Sinatra
270

Andrea Dromm
117
Barbara Feldon
125
Eunice Gayson
131
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184
Thordis Brandt
191
Hélène Chanel 91
197
Table of Contents
200
Lois Maxwell
208
Stella Stevens
278
Maggie Thrett
289
Sigrid Valdis
296
Raquel Welch
304
Celeste Yarnall
311
Websites
319
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About the author (2002)

Tom Lisanti, the author of six McFarland books, has written extensively about sixties cinema. He contributes to Cinema Retro and blogs at www.sixtiescinema.com. He lives in New York. Louis Paul has contributed film reviews, interviews, biographies and articles to film-related publications including Chiller Theatre and European Trash Cinema. He published a genre film magazine in the 80s and 90s called Blood Times. Paul co-curated an exhibit at the New York Public Library celebrating 100 years of the horror film called "Screams on Screen." He lives in New Jersey.

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