When it comes to my ever-growing crushes on actresses, I have no ability to stay loyal. I just bounce around from one after another being so fickle and sexist but hey, that’s how I am made. Today’s unhealthy memory came courtesy of the film ‘Around the World under the Sea’ that threw up the delectable Shirley Eaton.
She caught my eye playing Jill Masterton a character in Goldfinger and the memory of her laid out across the bed painted head to toe in gold paint, a nasty way to die but a great memory for the male of the species and me. That one scene gained her the recognition as one of the top remembered Bond girls up there with the like of Honor Blackman, who played famed Bond Girl Pussy Galore in the same film.
Shirley was born in England but as that Nordic blonde look and was strikingly beautiful with a stunning face and physique who wasn’t shy about showing off her remarkable athletic body. She starred on British TV, stage and film and after Bond Hollywood beckoned and Shirley immediately won a number of female leads in melodrama, crime yarns, and rugged adventures playing mainly the love interest.
She started her career playing minor parts in such classic British comedies as Doctor in the House (1954) and quickly rose to co-star status in films like Three Men in a Boat (1956), The Naked Truth (1957) and Doctor at Large (1957), has well as a number of Carry on films.
She when into self-imposed retirement at the end of the 1960’s to look after her family.
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