#jill masterson

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Shirley Eaton on the set of Goldfinger (1964)

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Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson in ’Goldfinger’

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Goldfinger (1964) dir. Guy Hamilton

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Jill Masterson, Sean Connery, Goldfinger, 1964.

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Random Reviews: Goldfinger

"He loves only gold! ONLY GOOOOOOLD!"

Let that be a lesson to all you blockbuster filmmakers out there. If you want to get the audience's attention, hire Shirley Bassey to belt out spoilers while shots from the movie project onto a nude woman's gold skin.

It’s particularly hard to pick a favorite moment in GOLDFINGER since the entire movie is stacked with exactly what you’d want in an EON-produced flick about Her Majesty’s best secret agent. GOLDFINGER is the definitive Bond picture - it solidified the formula that every sequel has so closely followed. It may not be my own personal favorite, but it's damn near close. You have Oddjob, Pussy Galore, her entourage of flying female aviators, a gold-obsessed villain with a crotch-crocheting laser, a sleepy army, a bomb that goes up to 007, a tricked-out Aston Martin, and John Barry's brassy fanfare.

Is there one scene that sums up this picture? If anything, I’ll have to go with James Bond's discovery of Jill Masterson’s gold painted body. It’s THE image that is still used to sell the movie.

If you’ve never seen a Bond movie, spend your next two hours with this finger.

*****

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Goldfinger was premiered on this day (21 December) in 1964 and released to the rest of the US the day after. It stars Sean Connery as 007, James Bond.

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Shirley Eaton by John Pratt (1955)

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Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson in Goldfinger (1964)