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think he could.
    Margaret Nolan played Dink in
Goldfinger
. A well-rounded role!
     
    Put ’em up! Honor Blackman (centre) with Shirley Eaton (left) and Tania Mallett inside the Fort Knox set on
Goldfinger
.
    Cubby Broccoli admitted that Honor Blackman had been cast on the back of her success in
The Avengers
, despite the fact that the American audience had never even seen the programme. He said, ‘The Brits would love her because they knew her as Mrs Gale, the Yanks would like her because she was so good, it was a perfect combination.’
    One time I was doing an interview with Jimmy Tarbuck on
Sunday Night at the London Palladium
and Tarbuck said:
    ‘You’re the Saint, Sean Connery is Bond, Patrick McGoohan is Danger Man and Patrick MacNee is in
The Avengers
… do you ever meet up?’
    I said, ‘Yeah, sure.’
    ‘Do you go out together?’
    ‘Yeah,’ I said.
    ‘Pussy Galore?’
    ‘Well, we don’t go looking for it …’ I replied.
    I’m still not sure how we got away with it!
BEWARE NUMBER ONE
    Bond rarely limits himself to just one conquest per film. The pattern established by Cubby and Harry – and still honoured to this day – usually sees anyone sleeping with Bond in the first reel bumped off before the end of the second. So beware young actresses.
    Sean and Martine Beswicke in
Thunderball
. Martine also appeared in the gypsy fight sequence in
From Russia With Love.
    Roald Dahl summed it up best when he spoke about being contracted to write the screenplay for
You Only Live Twice
(1967): ‘“You put in three girls,” the producers said, “girl number one is pro-Bond. She stays around roughly for the first reel of the picture, then she is bumped off by the enemy, preferably in Bond’s arms.
    ‘ “Girl number two is anti-Bond and usually captures him, and he has to save himself by knocking her out with his sexual charm and power. She gets killed in an original (usually grisly) fashion mid-way through the film. The third girl will manage to survive to the end of the film.” ’
    Mollie Peters played Patricia in
Thunderball
, and helped soothe Jim’s stress.
    To date, only two Bond girls have actually turned the formula around and captured Bond’s heart – though neither lived very long, proving you can’t tamper with the recipe too much. In
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
, Tracy di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg) married Bond
,
though she was shot dead soon after the ceremony by Irma Bunt and Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The second to wed was Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) in
Casino Royale
. Bond professes his love for her and resigns from MI6 in order that they can have a normal life together. Later, he learns she was actually a double agent working for his enemies at Quantum (in the film) – the enemy organization ostensibly kidnapped her former lover and was blackmailing her to secure her cooperation. She died by drowning in a lift in a building under renovation. Realizing his betrayal and loss in equal measure, Bond confirmed, ‘The bitch is dead’ – one of the most intense lines of all Fleming’s novels, which was also used in the film.
FAQS
    Among the most frequently asked questions I am asked in interviews (and I assume this is true of any other retired 007) is, ‘Who is your favourite Bond girl?’
    ‘Oh! How original!’ I exclaim. ‘No one has ever asked me that before.’
    I never give an answer as I think it is terribly unfair to name one co-star as being any better than another; you immediately upset someone. ‘What was wrong with me?’ they cry out.
    Avoiding naming names also allows me to talk about some leading ladies without actually identifying them, though if I drop the odd hint, you might put two and two together.
    In the 1960s, while playing Simon Templar, I was being interviewed by a television station and the journalist started off with, ‘You’ve played Ivanhoe, Maverick and now the Saint … you must have got through a lot of leading ladies in your time.’
    ‘You can’t say