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Jill St . John Jill St . John ( born Jill Arlyn Oppenheim ; August 19 , 1940 ) is an American actress . She is best known for playing Tiffany Case , the first American Bond girl of the 007 franchise , in Diamonds Are Forever . Additional performances in film include The Lost World , Tender Is the Night , Come Blow Your Horn , for which she received a Golden Globe nomination , Whos Minding the Store? , The Oscar , Tony Rome , Sitting Target and The Concrete Jungle . On television , St . John has appeared in such top rated shows as Batman , The Big Valley , Rowan & Martins Laugh-In , Hart to Hart , Vega$ , The Love Boat , Fantasy Island , Magnum , P.I . and Seinfeld . During her Hollywood heyday she was almost equally famous for her high-profile social life and frequent romantic associations with prominent public figures . St . John is married to actor Robert Wagner and has known him since she was 18 years old . They share credits on nearly a dozen screen and stage productions , notably the miniseries remake of Around the World in 80 Days . Early life . St . John was born Jill Arlyn Oppenheim in Los Angeles , California , the daughter of Edward Oppenheim , a prosperous restaurant owner , and his wife Betty ( née Goldberg ) , who became her stage mother . She has no siblings . As a young girl , St . John was a member of the Childrens Ballet Company with Natalie Wood and Stefanie Powers . All three would later marry or co-star with actor Robert Wagner . Her mother Betty changed Jills last name to St . John during her adolescence . Career . Child actress . St . John began acting on radio at age six , and made her screen debut in December 1949 , at age nine , in The Christmas Carol , the first full-length TV movie . She was in the TV show Sandy Dreams that same year . At age 11 , she appeared in two episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show . She had a small role in the film Thunder in the East ( 1951 ) and was in episodes of Sky King , Fireside Theatre , and Cavalcade of America . She attended Powers Professional School and received her high school diploma from Hollywood Professional School in the spring of 1955 at age 14 . At age 15 , St . John enrolled at UCLAs Extension School . During this time , she appeared on a large number of radio shows , notably One Mans Family . Universal . In May 1957 , St . John was 16 when Universal Pictures signed her to a contract for seven years starting at $200 a week . Her major studio film debut was in Summer Love ( 1958 ) starring John Saxon . She also appeared on TV in episodes of The Christophers , Schlitz Playhouse , and The DuPont Show of the Month ( an adaptation of Junior Miss ) . She said her idol was Kay Kendall . 20th Century Fox . St John then signed a contract with 20th Century Fox who tried to build her into a star . She played the daughter of Clifton Webb in The Remarkable Mr . Pennypacker ( 1959 ) and Holiday for Lovers ( 1959 ) , then was put in an adventure movie , The Lost World ( 1960 ) . Nothing but starlet parts , she later said . You know , the daughter , the niece , the girlfriend . Fox picked up their option on her . Warner Bros borrowed her for The Roman Spring of Mrs . Stone ( 1961 ) , then she had a supporting role in Tender Is the Night ( 1962 ) . Comedy . St . John had a key role in Come Blow Your Horn ( 1963 ) , where she starred opposite Frank Sinatra . She received a Golden Globe Award nomination as Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her performance in the film . Im a comedienne , she said in 1963 . Ive never pretended to be a dramatic actress . But Im very funny . She followed this with a series of comedies : Whos Minding the Store ? ( 1963 ) with Jerry Lewis , Whos Been Sleeping in My Bed ? ( 1963 ) with Dean Martin and Honeymoon Hotel ( 1964 ) with Robert Morse and Nancy Kwan . Now I play the sexy comedienne , which is my forte she said in 1964 . Comedy is what Ive always wanted to do . She guest-starred on television shows like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , Burkes Law , The Rogues , and Theatre of Stars . In 1964 , she guest-starred in the episode Take a Walk Through the Cemetery of the drama series Mr . Broadway . She also appeared in some variety specials with Bob Hope . MGM gave her the female lead in a spy spoof The Liquidator ( 1965 ) with Rod Taylor , and she was in The Oscar ( 1966 ) with Stephen Boyd . St . John appeared in the first and second episodes of the television series Batman ( 1966 ) as the Riddlers moll Molly . She was also in The Big Valley . Universal . St . John signed a contract at Universal . She was in a TV movie Fame Is the Name of the Game ( 1966 ) , and had a supporting role in How I Spent My Summer Vacation ( 1967 ) with Robert Wagner . She did the Bob Hope comedy Eight on the Run ( 1967 ) , then made Banning ( 1967 ) with Wagner and The Kings Pirate ( 1967 ) with Doug McClure . In 1966 , she said her goal was to be at a point where I have so proved myself as an actress that I can be more discriminating in the roles I choose . I want to be able to choose the parts I know I can do next . She was reunited with Sinatra in Tony Rome ( 1967 ) and did a TV movie The Spy Killer ( 1968 ) , which was popular enough for the sequel Foreign Exchange ( 1970 ) . She guested on The Name of the Game . Decisions ! Decisions ! ( 1971 ) was a TV movie St . John did with Bob Newhart and Jean Simmons . James Bond . St . Johns most famous role was as diamond smuggler Tiffany Case , the love interest of James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever ( 1971 ) , where she starred opposite Sean Connery . She was the first American to play a Bond girl . The character of Tiffany is argumentative , abrasive , loud , and brash when compared to previous Bond girls who were more demure ; she is meant to be a stereotypical commentary on American women , apparently . In 1972 , St . John appeared alongside Oliver Reed in the crime drama Sitting Target . Television . She did the TV movies Saga of Sonora ( 1973 ) and Brenda Starr ( 1976 ) ( playing the title role ) , and guest-starred on The Love Boat , Magnum , P.I. , Fantasy Island and Matt Houston . St . John did the TV movies Two Guys from Muck ( 1982 ) and Rooster ( 1982 ) and was top-billed in the feature The Concrete Jungle ( 1982 ) , a woman in prison film . She had a small role in The Act ( 1983 ) . During 1983–1984 , she starred with Dennis Weaver on the short-lived soap opera Emerald Point N.A.S. , in which she played Deanna Kinkaid , Thomas Mallorys conniving former sister-in-law . Later career . St . John and Robert Wagner were in Around the World in 80 Days ( 1989 ) ; Something to Believe In ( 1998 ) ; and The Calling ( 2002 ) . They made brief cameo appearances as themselves in Robert Altmans Hollywood satire The Player ( 1992 ) . In 1996 , they started appearing together on stage in Love Letters . In 1997 , the couple appeared together at the end of The Yada Yada episode of the television sitcom Seinfeld . St . John appeared without Wagner in Out There ( 1995 ) and The Trip ( 2002 ) . In 2014 , St . John played Mrs . Claus in the TV movie Northpole alongside Wagner , who played the part of Santa Claus . The film marked her first acting role after a 12-year absence from the screen . Other activities . In 1972 , St . John largely left Hollywood behind and moved to Aspen , Colorado , where she focused on personal interests and cooking . She eventually developed her interest in cooking into becoming a culinary personality , appearing in monthly cooking segments on ABC-TVs Good Morning America and with a column in USA Weekend magazine through the 1980s . This culminated in authoring The Jill St . John Cookbook ( 1987 ) , a healthy , but not health food , collection of recipes and some anecdotes . St . John also developed a handmade Angora sweater business , and became interested in orchid growing , skiing , hiking , river rafting , camping , and gardening . In 1987 , she said Im a mountain gal now . I love the outdoors and I love harvesting and using fresh vegetables and herbs . St . John is founder of the Aunts Club , a Rancho Mirage-based group of women who contribute at least $1,000 per year to provide financial support for a child . Personal life . St . John has been married four times : - Neil Dubin ( May 12 , 1957 – July 3 , 1958 ; divorced ) St . John was 16 years old when they eloped to Yuma , Arizona . Dubin was heir to a linen fortune . St . John complained that he harassed and ridiculed her . - Lance Reventlow ( March 24 , 1960 – October 30 , 1963 ; divorced ) Reventlow was the son of Barbara Hutton , heir to the F . W . Woolworth fortune . St . John received a settlement of $86,000 . Despite their divorce and subsequent remarriages , she refers to Reventlow as my late husband in interviews . - Jack Jones ( October 14 , 1967 – February 28 , 1969 ; divorced ) Jones said demands on his singing career and the traveling involved contributed to the breakup . - Robert Wagner ( May 26 , 1990 – present ) The couple first met in 1959 when they were contract players at 20th Century Fox , and have been together since Valentines Day 1982 . In between marriages , St . John dated entertainment , sports , and political personalities including Ben Barnes , Gianni Bulgari , Sammy Cahn , Michael Caine , Oleg Cassini , Barry Coe , Sean Connery , Ahmet Ertegun , Robert Evans , Glenn Ford , David Frost , Bill Hudson , Henry Kissinger , Sidney Korshak , Sandy Koufax , Peter Lawford , George Lazenby , Trini López , Tom Mankiewicz , George Montgomery , Jack Nicholson , Ogden Mills Phipps , Roman Polanski , Alejandro Rey , Tom Selleck , Frank Sinatra , U Thant , Robert Vaughn , Giovanni Volpi and Adam West . St . John was also romantically linked with criminal court judge Jerome M . Becker , ski instructor Ricky Head , Olympic ski champion Brownie Barnes , plastic surgeon Steven Zax , investment broker Lenny Ross , Chicago businessman Delbert W . Coleman and Brazilian entrepreneur Francisco Baby Pignatari . She was engaged to Miami real estate developer Robert Blum in 1974 , but called off the engagement . She has three stepdaughters : - Katie Wagner , born 1964 to Wagner and Marion Marshall - Natasha Gregson , born 1970 to Richard Gregson and Natalie Wood , but raised in the Wagner/St . John household after Wood died - Courtney Wagner , born 1974 to Wagner and Wood In July 2007 , Wagner and St . John sold the Brentwood ranchette they had lived on since 1983 , for a reported $14 million and relocated to their vacation home in Aspen . They retain a condo in L.A . Mutual animosity between St . John and her husbands former sister-in-law , actress Lana Wood , dates back to 1971 , when Sean Connery was simultaneously involved with both women during the filming of Diamonds Are Forever . The pairs half-century feud has been highlighted by two well-documented public altercations : one in September 1999 , when St . John refused to be photographed with Wood at a Bond girl reunion for Vanity Fair magazine , and another in February 2016 , when Wood crashed an event honoring St . John in Palm Springs and confronted Wagner over the reopened death case of her sister Natalie , who mysteriously drowned in 1981 while yachting with Wagner off the coast of Santa Catalina Island . Filmography . Film . - Thunder in the East ( 1952 ) as English Girl ( uncredited ) - Summer Love ( 1957 ) as Erica Landis - The Remarkable Mr . Pennypacker ( 1959 ) as Kate Pennypacker - Holiday for Lovers ( 1959 ) as Meg Dean - The Lost World ( 1960 ) as Jennifer Holmes - The Roman Spring of Mrs . Stone ( 1961 ) as Barbara Bingham - Tender Is the Night ( 1962 ) as Rosemary Hoyt - Come Blow Your Horn ( 1963 ) as Peggy John - Whos Minding the Store ? ( 1963 ) as Barbara Tuttle - Whos Been Sleeping in My Bed ? ( 1963 ) as Toby Tobler - Honeymoon Hotel ( 1964 ) as Sherry Nugent - The Liquidator ( 1965 ) as Iris MacIntosh - The Oscar ( 1966 ) as Laurel Scott - Eight on the Lam ( 1967 ) as Monica - Banning ( 1967 ) as Angela Barr - The Kings Pirate ( 1967 ) as Mistress Jessica Stephens - Tony Rome ( 1967 ) as Ann Archer - Diamonds Are Forever ( 1971 ) as Tiffany Case - Sitting Target ( 1972 ) as Pat Lomart - The Concrete Jungle ( 1982 ) as Warden Fletcher - The Act ( 1984 ) as Elise - The Player ( 1992 ) as Jill St . John - Something to Believe In ( 1998 ) as Dr . Joanne Anderson - The Trip ( 2002 ) as Mary Oakley - The Calling ( 2002 ) as Elegant Lady Television . - Sandy Dreams ( 1949 ) - The Christmas Carol ( 1949 , TV Movie ) as Missie Cratchit - The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show ( 1951–1952 ) as Sherry Kelly / Jill Kelly - Sky King ( 1952 ) as Gretchen Gluckman - Fireside Theatre ( 1953 ) - Cavalcade of America ( 1954 ) - The Christophers ( 1957 ) - Schlitz Playhouse ( 1957 ) as Eloise - The DuPont Show of the Month ( 1957 ) as Lois Graves - Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre ( 1963–1965 ) as Janie Douglas / Faith / Bunky - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ( 1964 ) as Carol ( uncredited ) - Mr . Broadway ( 1964 ) as Herself - Burkes Law ( 1964 ) as Pinky Likewise - The Rogues ( 1965 ) as Jena Tate - Batman ( 1966 ) as Molly - The Big Valley ( 1966 ) as Barbary Red - Fame Is the Name of the Game ( 1966 , TV Movie ) as Leona Purdy - How I Spent My Summer Vacation ( 1967 , TV Movie ) as Nikki Pine - Rowan & Martins Laugh-In ( 1968–1971 ) - The Spy Killer ( 1969 , TV Movie ) as Mary Harper - The Name of the Game ( 1969 ) as Michelle Howell - Foreign Exchange ( 1970 , TV Movie ) as Mary Harper - The Red Skelton Hour ( 1971 ) as Freida - Decisions ! Decisions ! ( 1971 , TV Movie ) as Andrea Winters - Old Faithful ( 1973 , TV Movie ) as Miss Roberts - Saga of Sonora ( 1973 , TV Movie ) as Molly - Brenda Starr ( 1976 , TV Movie ) as Brenda Starr - Telethon ( 1977 , TV Movie ) as Fran Sullivan - Hart to Hart ( 1979 ) as Sylvia Maxwell - The Love Boat ( 1979–1982 ) as Laura / Sandy Wilson / Claire Dalrymple / Mitzi De Risi - Vega$ ( 1980 ) as Mavis Graham - Fantasy Island ( 1981–1982 ) as Ellen Layton / Jane Doe / Helen of Troy - Magnum , P.I . ( 1982 ) as Jan Kona - Two Guys from Muck ( 1982 , TV Movie ) as Miss Demandt - Rooster ( 1982 , TV Movie ) as Joanna Van Eegan - Matt Houston ( 1982 ) as Karen Ann Douglas - Emerald Point N.A.S . ( 1983–1984 ) as Deanna Kincaid - Dempsey and Makepeace ( 1986 ) as Mara Giardino - J.J . Starbuck ( 1988 ) as Rachel Capstone - Around the World in 80 Days ( 1989 ) as Woman mistaken for Princess Aouda - Out There ( 1995 , TV Movie ) as Bunny Wells - Seinfeld ( 1997 ) as Mrs . Abbott - Northpole ( 2014 , TV Movie ) as Mrs . Claus External links . - Jill St . John at Yahoo ! Movies - Jill St . John at the British Film Institute