50 years ago: The Beatles and James Bond – beatle.net by dvt | posted in: 50 Years Ago , Other products , Trivia | 0 The Beatles were in Hamburg and James Bond was in the clutches of Dr. No on Crab Tree Island As detailed in last week’s edition, the Beatles were playing nightly at the Star-Club in Hamburg from November 1 – 14, 1962. During this time, people back in Merry Old England were enjoying the first James Bond film, “Dr. No.” In fact, the first James Bond film made its world-wide premier in London on October 5, 1962, the same day that the first Beatles single, “Love Me Do,” was released! This week’s trivia questions pertain to other connections between the Beatles and James Bond. 1. Which Beatles movie contains gimmicks and music mimicking the James Bond craze? 2. Name the three James Bond theme songs produced by Beatles producer George Martin, along with the artist who sang each song. 3. In the film “Goldfinger,” what remark does James Bond make about the Beatles when discussing the proper temperature for drinking Dom Perignon champagne? 4.

The James Bond film “The Spy Who Loved Me” has two connections to Ringo and one connection to Paul. Can you describe them? Hint: Two of the connections are linked to the theme song for the film, “Nobody Does It Better.” 5. Actor Richard Vernon appears in both a James Bond movie and a Beatles film. Name the two movies and the roles he played. REVEAL THE ANSWERS 1. The Beatles second film, “Help!,” was influenced by the James Bond craze. After confronting the Beatles as they leave their apartment, Klang and Bhuta prepare to follow the Fab Four’s car in a Harrods truck that drops tacks into the street. This “chase scene” parodies the classic scene in “Goldfinger” when the back of James Bond’s Aston Martin car releases smoke and oil slicks in front of the cars in pursuit. The music for this scene in “Help!” is a variation of the “James Bond Theme.” A portion of this music was used to open the Capitol Records soundtrack album for “Help!” 2.

George Martin produced the following James Bond theme songs: “From Russia With Love” by Matt Monro, “Goldfinger” by Shirley Bassey and “Live And Let Die” by Wings. Martin also produced the score for the film soundtrack for “Live And let Die.” The book “The Beatles Solo on Apple Records” tells the fascinating and humorous story about how Paul was asked to write the theme song for “Live And Let Die” and the meeting between George Martin and film producer Harry Saltzman during which Saltzman asked Martin who they should get to sing the title song! Saltzman, who had used singers such as Matt Monro, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones and Nancy Sinatra for prior Bond films, had female vocalists like Thelma Houston and Aretha Franklin in mind. When Martin explained that they would not get the song unless they used Paul’s recording, Saltzman consented after realizing that having an ex-Beatle sing the theme song could be a plus. 3. After noticing that a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne had lost its chill, James Bond climbs out of bed to get a fresh bottle from the hotel suite refrigerator.

He explains to his beautiful female companion, Jill Masterson, “My dear girl, there are some things that just aren’t done, such as drinking Dom Perignon ’53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!” Shortly after insulting the Beatles, Bond was knocked unconscious by Goldfinger’s Korean henchman, Odd-Job. Although he recovered, the girl was painted gold from head to toe, causing her to suffocate from lack of oxygen passing through her skin. 4. The lead Bond Girl in “The Spy Who Loved Me” was Barbara Bach, who later married Ringo. The theme song for the film, “Nobody Does It Better” (performed by Carly Simon), was produced by Richard Perry, who produced the albums “Ringo” and “Goodnight Vienna” for Ringo. Finally, the guitar solo in the song was played by Laurence Juber, who later was a member of Wings with Paul McCartney. 5.

Actor Richard Vernon appears in the James Bond film “Goldfinger” as Colonel Smithers and as the Man on the Train in “A Hard Day’s Night.” He is the stuffy businessman who is annoyed by the Beatles playing the radio and opening the train compartment window for fresh air. He’s the one who says “I fought the war for your sort.” Thanks to Beatle Tom Frangione for Help! with this week’s trivia Get these classics from Amazon: [asa]B0091V6TF4[/asa] [asa]B008YJFF2M[/asa] [asa]B006U1J5ZY[/asa] [asa]B006U1JD5G[/asa] [asa]B008YKV2FU[/asa] [asa]B00004RG62[/asa] Join Bruce’s email list to get his weekly Tuesday Trivia question 1000+ images about From Bond To A Beatle on Pinterest | Harrison ford, Emilio pucci and Actresses Forward Barbara Bach is credited as Actress and model, The Spy Who Loved Me, James Bond movie.

Barbara Bach is an American actress and model known as the Bond girl from the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me She is married to former Beatle See More 1000+ images about Ringo and Barbara on Pinterest | Olivia d'abo, Celebrity couples and Actresses Barbara Bach and Ringo Starr. They were so cute together in " Caveman," a funny '80's movieabout-what else?- a caveman! See More My Beatles and Classic Rock page: THE WOMEN OF THE BEATLES My Beatles and Classic Rock page THE WOMEN OF THE BEATLES Behind every man's success is a woman as they say. The world of rock music is known for the bohemian lifestyle of its stars and the Beatles were no exception.Money,drugs and sex come in droves which the rock stars happily indulged on. The women featured here by the way,were not just groupies.They were the ladies who inspired our beloved fab four...some of the famous Beatles songs were written and inspired by them.

These are the women behind the men who wrote those beautiful harmonies and eventually saved us all from boredom.The women I featured here were the serious girlfriends and wives that helped shape the Beatles' lives.Some were even labeled as destroyers of a wondergroup,some were just plain sweethearts.Not counting the groupies or other women which were heavily dubbed as one night stands wherein the Beatles as one mighty rock stars have met along the way. 1.DOT RHONE Dot Rhone was said to have been Paul McCartney's first serious girlfriend. At the height of the Beatles' career which started in their hometown Liverpool,England and the band's overseas gigs in Hamburg,Germany. Only a few can be heard about Rhone,she nearly married Paul as she was pregnant by Paul's supposed to be first child but she had a miscarriage and Paul stated later on that he fell out with her. There has been reports that Dot now lives in Canada and is a grandmother of several children.It was said that Paul had recently met her when he performed in Canada on the North American leg of his 2005 World Tour.(photo:Dot Rhone with Paul McCartney) 2.

JANE ASHER I guess everybody knows Jane Asher,the British actress in the 1960s who used to be Paul McCartney's girlfriend.Several Beatles songs were said to have been written about her,one beautiful love song called "And I Love Her" from the soundtrack album A Hard Day's Night is one of the best known Beatles songs were reportedly inspired by her.Other songs Paul wrote that were inspired by Jane were "All My Loving","Im Looking Through You","You Won't See Me","For No One" and "Here,There And Everywhere". Paul eventually wrote another song called "A World Without Love" and was given to Jane's brother Peter Asher of the pop/rock duo Peter And Gordon. Paul and Jane's relationship lasted for five years.They got engaged in early 1967 and then broke up a year later. 3.FRANCIE SCHWARTZ Its quite odd that Paul never mentioned her in any of his interviews nor on his autobiographies.But it was also rumoured that Francie was the reason behind Paul and Jane's breakup.

This attractive woman first crossed the Beatles' paths when she worked part-time at Apple Records in 1968,and then there she met Paul and became his live-in girlfriend for several months.It was said that when Francie came to live in Paul's house,Paul was very sad and lonely about his break up with his ex Jane Asher.Jane's clothes were still on Paul's house when Francie came to live with him.Francie eventually wrote a book about his relationship with Paul called "Body Count" and had memories of Yoko that were even kinder than others would have later stated. Francie stated on her book that Paul broke her heart when he asked her to leave[in which Paul had reportedly been dating Linda Eastman at the time and eventually later on became his wife].She never saw Paul again after that. 4.LINDA EASTMAN Linda Eastman,who would later be known as Linda McCartney first met Paul McCartney when she flew to London to attend the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's photoshoot.The Beatles just released their new album at the time Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band and had a press conference.

Linda was already an established rock photographer even before she met the Beatles,taking photos of rock bands like The Rascals,The Doors,The Grateful Dead,The Rolling Stones,Jimi Hendrix,Cream and so many others. Danny Fields revealed on his book that the Paul and Linda meeting was indeed "love at first sight".But it took a year before they met again and had a formal dating and she eventually moved to Paul's house in London.They married on March 12,1969 and Paul adopted Linda's daughter Heather from her previous marriage.Their union produced three other children Mary(born 1969),Stella(born 1971) and their only son James(born 1977).Rumour finders sadly,also linked Linda with Yoko Ono as one of the reasons why the Beatles broke up and was the subject in the book(along with Ono) The Women Who Broke Up The Beatles.

Songs inspired by Linda were the Beatles' song "I Will" which was included on the White Album and was released in 1968.Perhaps the most beautiful love song ever written by Paul about Linda was "Maybe I'm Amazed" which was included on Paul McCartney's first solo album McCartney.His most enduring ever,"Maybe I'm Amazed" remains a regular on his concert setlist up to this day. When Linda married Paul,the Beatles were in the brink of dissolution,bad business problems began emerging and Paul couldn't help it but watch his band die slowly from the inside.Paul couldn't keep the Beatles together and he later stated that it was Linda who literally saved him as he got too depressed and was spiraling downwards with all the Beatles issues and she tried to encourage him that he was a good songwriter and thus he got up on his stupor and wrote materials that were later recorded for his first solo album. Another beautiful love song which was written about Linda was "My Love" which was included on the Paul McCartney And Wings album Red Rose Speedway.Linda played keyboards and even sang back up and lead vocals with Wings.

Paul and Linda's marriage was known to be a rock n'roll fairy tale and would last 29 years until Linda's death in 1998 due to breast cancer.Their union has inspired other people including the hopelessly romantics as their dream marriage.Even though Paul remarried years after Linda's death,it was always said that Linda was the love of his life.And I guess Paul knew that deep inside. 5.CYNTHIA POWELL Cynthia was John Lennon's first wife and the mother of Julian Lennon.John had been dating her and they got married even before the Beatles came to fame.Though they had been famous locally in their town of Liverpool,John married Cynthia even before Beatlemania started to take the world over. It was always said that Cynthia was often a casualty on the Beatles' career wherein they had to keep their marriage a secret as to not hurt John's boy next door image as the band was still trying to make it big in the States.She often rode in escort cars that followed the Beatles' but never rode with the band which was kinda sad.

One song that was said to have been inspired by Cynthia was "Norwegian Wood" from the Beatles' album Rubber Soul.The lines "I once had a girl or should I say she once had me" was said to have been John Lennon's direct reference to Cynthia as John believed that she trapped him into marriage by getting pregnant.John and Cynthia were former classmates in art school where they eventually met and thus they started dating afterwards.They were married in August 23,1962 and their union would last six years until Lennon left her for Yoko Ono and they divorced on November 8,1968. 6.MARY COX It was weird to think that all the Beatles' wives and girlfriends who attended the Maharishi's in Rishikesh never lasted with their respective partners.Mary Cox aka Maureen Starkey is definitely one of them. Mary was Ringo Starr's first wife,having met Ringo in the Beatles' early days in the Cavern Club in Liverpool,she was a regular at the Cavern at age 15 and wasn't noticed immediately by Ringo.

She and Ringo got married in February 1965 after finding out that she was pregnant with Ringo's first child-and that is future rocker Zak Starkey who would later join Oasis as an unofficial drummer.She and Ringo had two other children. When the Beatles broke up in 1970,the couple's marriage started spiraling downwards as well with ill reports of Ringo's infidelity igniting the breakup.Their divorce was finalized in 1975 on the grounds of Ringo's affair with American model Nancy Lee Andrews.Their divorce said to have crushed her completely with an unsuccessful suicide attempt she made after riding her motorbike into a brick wall.Ringo later on married Bond girl Barbara Bach. Maureen(Mary) lived with Isaac Tigrett-the founder of Hard Rock Cafe in 1976 but didn't marry him until 1989.She died of leukemia in 1994 with all of her children,husband Isaac and ex-husband Ringo Starr on his bedside."Little Willow" from Paul McCartney's 1997 album Flaming Pie was said to have been written by Paul in her memory.

7.PATTIE BOYD Pattie was George Harrison's first wife and I guess was the subject of much controversy when she married two famous rock stars-and that is George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Harrison first met Pattie on the set of the Beatles' first movie A Hard Day's Night.Pattie had a cameo appearance on the film with a one-liner dialogue "prisoners?" on a train scene with the fab four. George and Pattie dated briefly in the height of Beatlemania and was married in 1966.It was noted that it was Pattie who got George interested into Eastern Mysticism when the couple first went to Bombay earlier that year. Several Beatles classics were said to have been inspired by Boyd with these beautiful George Harrison compositions such as "I Need You" "For You Blue" and "Something".The latter being the biggest George Harrison penned Beatles single which eventually went to number one on both sides of the Atlantic.

The couple never had a child as to may have the reason why George Harrison got into so much infidelity as the years went by.Their marriage went on the rocks and finally ended when Pattie was snatched by George's best friend and fellow guitar god Eric Clapton.The couple divorced in 1974 and Pattie became Mrs Clapton. Pattie was believed to be barren that she didn't had a child with Eric Clapton either.Eric and Pattie later divorced in 1988 on grounds of Clapton's alcoholism and affairs with several women. 8.YOKO ONO Yoko Ono オノ・ヨーコ（小野 洋子） was born in Tokyo but was raised in Scarsdale,New York.She's seven years older than John Lennon and was known by many Beatles fans as the main person who said to have been broken up the Beatles.Many fans of the fab four still couldn't stop talking about her,or perhaps hated her for drifting the band apart.Perhaps Yoko wanted to keep John away from the Beatles,or was it a coincidence that John was already tired of all these rock star madness when she came to his life?

John first met Yoko on the latter's art exhibit in London in 1966 wherein Ono was said to have been impressed by Lennon's humour.But it wasn't until 1968 when they started living together wherein John left his first wife Cynthia for her. The Beatles by then,were slowly drifting apart from each other and everybody believed that Ono made it worse by hanging out with the band all the time,even in the studio where they work which made the other Beatles uncomfortable. When the Beatles disbanded in 1970,she collaborated with her husband John Lennon(whom she married in 1969) on his solo albums and even sang with him onstage at the charity concert in Madison Square Garden in 1972.The couple moved to New York City in 1973 and lived there until Lennon's untimely death in 1980. 9.HEATHER MILLS Heather Anne Mills was born in 1968 and was 26 years Paul McCartney's junior when she married him at a lavish ceremony at Castle Leslie in Ireland in 2002.

Mills was Paul McCartney's second wife,having met Sir Paul at one charity event a year after Linda McCartney's passing in 1999.Paul later claimed that he was surprised to himself looking at other women in which he said he never did during his 29 years of marriage with Linda. Paul wrote two songs about her on his 2002 album Driving Rain,one called "Your Loving Flame" which is a song about an elder man who found love for the second time on the twilight of his life.The second song was called "Heather" in which shouldn't be confused over the 1969 song of the same title written by Paul for his eldest daughter which is unreleased up to this day and was only available in bootlegs. Heather had an accident in 1993 when she was hit by a motorcycle while crossing the street in London,she was so badly injured that her left leg was amputated 6 inches below the knee.She is currently wearing prosthetic limbs to help her compensate for the loss leg.

Their union produced a daughter,Beatrice Milly McCartney who was born in 2003.Their marriage however was marred with problems with rumours coming in and out in which Mills was reportedly angry on how the music press would treat her.In 2003,she first described her marriage to Paul on Larry King's show as a great one and even praising Paul's tidiness.But later on,she was said to have been complaining to her friends that Sir Paul was a boring old fart prompting the media to be suspicious on her,even calling her a gold digger.Their marriage had several problems with the press even digging her past wherein she modeled in full frontal nudity when she was in her 20s and there has been wild rumours circulating that she used to be a porn queen which made the couple's problems worst.

The couple separated in 2006 with Mills doing interviews pointing her feud with Sir Paul's daughter Stella as the cause of the breakdown of their marriage.There has been many speculations on why McCartney and Mills separated but nobody could point a right reason why they parted ways.Perhaps the couple had more personal problems unknown to most of us.Their divorce was granted on May 12 2008 with Heather unsuccessfully applied for the decision to be kept a secret fearing that she would be vulnerable to crazed Beatles fans. £16.5 million was said to have been McCartney's alimony to Mills together with assets of £7.8 million which included the properties she owned at the time.Plus £35,000 per annum,a nanny and school costs for their daughter in which both of them would share custody. 10. MAY PANG May Pang is John Lennon's girlfriend,they lived together for two years while Lennon was separated from Yoko Ono.

Pang was the daughter of Chinese immigrants and grew up in New York's Spanish Harlem.She first got into the music business by working as a receptionist at ABKCO Records managed by Allen Klein who,at the time represented Apple Records and as the Beatles' newly elected manager(which Paul McCartney strongly opposes).And then there she had crossed the Beatles' paths and later on became Yoko Ono's personal assistant. In 1973,after the recording of Mind Games,Lennon's fourth post-Beatles solo album,John and Yoko were having marital problems and decided to separate for a while.John left New York and headed to Los Angeles with Pang(whom Yoko had suggested to be Lennon's companion),the two became lovers as John Lennon indulged into what he called "The Lost Weekend". In later interviews,John was heard to be saying that he was attracted to Pang when he first saw her even when he was still with Yoko.The couple moved back to New York and lived together until 1975 in which Lennon moved back to Yoko Ono,and broke May's heart.

May Pang later wrote a book about her relationship with John Lennon called Loving John.She married record producer Tony Visconti and would later divorce in 2000. 11.BARBARA BACH Barbara Bach is the second and current wife of Ringo Starr,they met at the set of their 1980 film Caveman in which both of them had a starring role.They were married in 1981 shortly after the film's release. Bach became an international sex symbol for her role as Bond girl opposite Roger Moore on 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me and has appeared on several issues of Playboy magazine. 12.OLIVIA ARIAS Olivia Arias,later to be known as Olivia Harrison is George Harrison's second wife.She and George met at Harrison's 1974 North American tour shortly after his divorce with first wife Pattie Boyd.Arias was then working as a secretary at A&M Records. Their union produced a son Dhani,who was born in 1978 and would later become a famous musician just like his father.

George and Olivia's marriage[they exchanged vows on September 2,1978] would last until George's untimely death due to lung cancer. She produced the Concert For George a tribute concert in her husband's memory which featured artists such as Eric Clapton,former Beatle bandmates Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr,Gary Brooker.Jeff Lynne,Joe Brown,Billy Preston and other musician friends of George.The tribute concert is said to be a solemn one with profits from the events went to a charitable institution organized by Harrison.It remains one of the most beautiful and enduring concert tributes ever. 13.SABRINA GUINNESS She is the heiress to the Guinness family and was rumoured to be dating Paul McCartney shortly after his separation from second wife Heather Mills. The two has been spotted several times together by the British papparazzi and was the subject of what her role might be to the future of Sir Paul McCartney,who was knighted in 1997.

Guinness,who had dated Mick Jagger and Prince Charles was denied by Paul himself as anything but an old friend.But despite the cute Beatle's denials of the said relationship,the press still followed their "rumoured relationship",with the papparazzi even taking stolen shots of the two going out having dinner and even their most intimate time together. Perhaps Sir Paul's relationship with her fell too short for him to admit it? 14.NANCY SHEVELL Nancy Shevell became Paul McCartney's third wife at a wedding ceremony held at Marylebone Town Hall on October 9,2011 which ironically is also John Lennon's birthday. The couple married at the same venue where Paul married his first wife Linda in 1969.Nancy is a member of the board of New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority and is the vice president of the family owned New England Motor Freight. At first,fans were so eager and excited to see the new couple wed as the news of their wedding registry made on early September where everybody's wondering when the exact date the couple would exchange vows.The world was finally surprised when they did on what would be John Lennon's 71st birthday.

There were rumours spreading and with other journalists having mixed comments and some would say that Sir Paul never learned from his past marriage with second wife Heather Mills and with a rumour that has spread over the rock press that Paul and Nancy signed a pre-nup agreement. Well whatever lies ahead,we wish them all the best and it may not be right to compare Nancy to Linda,but we all wish Sir Paul to have a happy and lasting marriage. Lord knows what lies ahead,but we wish them all the best. (c) Keith Vernon Adagio Barbara Bach, Bond Girl And Ringo Starr's Wife, And Her Killer Style (PHOTO) | The Huffington Post Barbara Bach, Bond Girl And Ringo Starr's Wife, And Her Killer Style (PHOTO) 02/01/2013 08:27 am ET Michelle Persad Fashion Editor, The Huffington Post. Barbara Bach could win anyone over with her big green eyes and full lips.

The American actress not only bagged one of the Beatles (she has been married to Ringo Starr for several decades), but she also nabbed the part of Bond girl Anya Amasova in the James Bond film " The Spy Who Loved Me ." Following her role in the film, both her modeling and acting career took off, and her raw talent combined with her killer body made Bach an icon. In this 1977 photograph, we see Mrs. Ringo Starr on the set of "The Spy Who Loved Me" with co-star Roger Moore . The Queens native is perched on the famous amphibious Lotus Esprit , in a pair of flared pants and a low-cut white blouse. The cut of her jeans elongates her legs , while her top screams '70s sex symbol. We also can't help but notice that her shoes bear a strong resemblance to Kate Middleton's favorite wedges -- looks like we found the Duchess' style muse.

Getty Images/Hulton Archive/Stringer Bond Girls: Then and Now Diana Rigg (Tracy Bond) United Artists via Everett/HBO via WENN Best known for her role as Emma Peel in the British TV series The Avengers, Diana Rigg played James Bond's wife Tracy Bond in the George Lazenby film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Since 2013, Rigg has played The Queen of Thornes, Olenna Tyrell, in the HBO series Game of Thrones. 2 Tanya Roberts (Stacey Sutton) United Artists via Everett/Chris Connor via WENN Before she was Stacey Sutton in the 1985 Roger Moore film A View to a Kill, Tanya Roberts played Julie Rogers on the TV series Charlie's Angels. You might also recognize her as Donna's mom, Midge Pinciotti, from That '70s Show. 3 Jane Seymour (Solitaire) United Artists via Everett/WENN Jane Seymour played Solitaire in the 1973 Bond film Live and Let Die and from 1993 to 1998, she starred as the eponymous character in the series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

Over the course of her career, Seymour has earned an Emmy, two Golden Globes, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2000, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. In 2007, she was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars where she finished in sixth place. She's also guest starred on Smallville, Castle, and How I Met Your Mother, but you might remember her as the mom in Wedding Crashers, "Call me kitty cat." article continues below ad Teri Hatcher (Paris Carver) United Artists via Everett/HRC via WENN Teri Hatcher rose to prominence for her portrayal of Lois Lane on the ABC series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, before starring as Bond girl Paris Carver in the Pierce Brosnan film Tomorrow Never Dies. Hatcher went on to star as Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. More recently, Hatcher has lent her voice to animated films including Coraline, Planes, and Planes: Fire & Rescue.

5 Michelle Yeoh (Wai Lin) United Artists via Everett/Daniel Deme via WENN Michelle Yeoh is best known for her roles as Wai Lin in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies and Yu Shu Lien in the Academy Award-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Yeoh will also star in the upcoming Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon II: The Green Destiny. 6 Kim Basinger (Domino Petachi) Warner Bros via Everett/WENN Kim Basinger enjoyed one of the most successful post-Bond careers. After her break-out role in the independent Bond film Never Say Never Again, Basinger went on to star in blockbusters like The Natural, Batman, and 8 Mile. In 1997, Basinger won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in L.A. Confidential and in the 2016, Basinger will appear in the film The Nice Guys alongside Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe. article continues below ad Ursula Andress (Honey Ryder) United Artists via Everett/Apega via WENN Ursula Andress is best known for her role as Honey Ryder in the first Bond film Dr. No.

for which she won a Golden Globe. Andress would later star as Vesper Lynd in the 1967 Bond-parody Casino Royale but after the birth of her son in 1980, Andress scaled back her acting career. 8 Eunice Gayson (Sylvia Trench) United Artists via Everett/WENN The first official Bond girl, Eunice Gayson played Sylvia Trench, James Bond's girlfriend in the Sean Connery films Dr. No and From Russia with Love. Gayson was originally cast as Miss Moneypenny, but the role went to Lois Maxwell instead. In 1995, Gayson's daughter made a cameo in the Bond film GoldenEye. 9 Shirley Eaton (Jill Masterson) United Artists via Everett/James Shaw via WENN Best remembered as the Bond girl who was painted to death, Shirley Eaton played Jill Masterson in 1964's Goldfinger. Only five years after the release of Goldfinger, Eaton retired from acting to devote herself to her family.

article continues below ad Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore) United Artists via Everett/WENN Before her role as the unfortunately named Pussy Galore in the 1964 Bond film Goldfinger, Blackman played Cathy Gale in the British series The Avengers. Blackman would go on to to star as Julia Daggett in the 1968 Western Shalako and in 2013, she guest-starred on the British dramas Casualty and By Any Means. 11 Jill St. John (Tiffany Case) United Artists via Everett/Splash News Best known for her role as Tiffany Case in the 1971 Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, Jill St. John guest starred in several TV shows including Magnum, P.I. and The Love Boat. In 1972, St. John left Hollywood to pursue her other passions, including cooking. Throughout the 1980s, appeared in cooking segments for ABC's Good Morning America and in 1987, she released a cookbook, The Jill St. John Cookbook. St. John and her husband, actor Robert Wagner, also appeared together at the end of the Seinfeld episode "The Yada Yada".

12 Barbara Bach (Anya Amasova) United Artists via Everett/Splash News Barabara Bach starred in the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, as Bond girl Anya Amasova, and the film Force 10 from Navarone where she acted alongside Robert Shaw and Harrison Ford. In 1981, Bach married Beatle drummer Ringo Starr and has since retired from acting. article continues below ad Lois Chiles (Holly Goodhead) United Artists via Everett/Splash News After her role as Dr. Holly Goodhead in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker, Lois Chiles went on to star in films like Creepshow 2, The Great Gatsby, The Way We Were, Death on the Nile, and Broadcast News. Chiles also made a cameo appearance in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, but her scene was cut from the U.S. release of the film.

14 Carole Bouquet (Melina Havelock) United Artists via Everett/WENN After her role as Bond girl Melina Havelock in the 1981 movie For Your Eyes Only, Carole Bouquet continued to act in European films throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Bouquet dated actor Gérard Depardieu from 1997 to 2005 and the couple was engaged from 2003 to 2005. Bouquet made an appearance in the Sex & the City episode "An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux" and in 2014 she starred in the TV adaptation of Rosemary's Baby alongside Zoe Saldana. 15 Maud Adams (Octopussy) United Artists via Everett/Jeff Grossman via WENN Maud Adams is best known for her roles as two different Bond girls, as Andrea Anders in The Man with the Golden Gun and as Octopussy in the 1983 Bond film of the same name. Adams also made a brief, uncredited appearance in A View to a Kill.

In 2000, Adams guest-starred on That '70s Show, appearing as a bridesmaid to fellow Bond girl Tanya Roberts. article continues below ad Carey Lowell (Pam Bouvier) United Artists via Everett/Joel Ginsburg via WENN Carey Lowell played Pam Bouvier in the 1989 Bond film Licence to Kill. From 1996 to 2001, Lowell starred as Assistant District Attorney Jamie Ross on Law & Order and in 2005, Lowell made a guest appearance as ADA Ross in the series Law & Order: Trial by Jury. 17 Secret History of Paul McCartney, the Jewish Beatle - Culture – Forward.com Secret History of Paul McCartney, the Jewish Beatle Twitter Sir Paul McCartney recently released “New,” his first album of original rock songs since 2007’s “Memory Almost Full.” Given the 71-year-old McCartney’s love affair with all things Jewish for the past half-century — including collaborators, business associates, girlfriends and wives — the title could well be meant as a transliteration of the all-purpose Jewish word nu.

The nu — I mean, new — album, full of Beatlesque confections in a panoply of styles — is co-produced by Mark Ronson, one of the hottest producers in popular music for the last decade or so, and the scion of a prominent English-Jewish family (the name was originally Aaronson). Ronson got the McCartney gig after DJing his 2011 wedding to Nancy Shevell, which took place on the day after Yom Kippur. Over the holiday, the bride and groom attended services at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St. John’s Wood, near McCartney’s home and close to Abbey Road Studios, where the Beatles recorded most of their songs. Reports from the time of the wedding suggested that McCartney was considering a Jewish conversion in deference to his newlywed, but that apparently hasn’t happened — yet. But Shevell is not the first Jewish Lady McCartney; that honor belonged to McCartney’s first wife, Linda Eastman. Born in New York City and raised in Scarsdale, N.Y., Linda Eastman was the daughter of Lee Eastman — the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, born Leopold Vail Epstein — and Louise Sara Lindner.

When Linda Eastman and McCartney’s daughter, Stella McCartney, became a fashion designer, she followed family footsteps into the rag trade; her maternal grandfather, Max J. Lindner, was founder of the Lindner Company, the largest women’s clothing store in Cleveland, Ohio. Lindner was a member of the most prominent Reform temple in Cleveland and president of its Men’s Club; active in the Jewish Welfare Fund and in the Jewish country club; and a major philanthropic force in Cleveland’s Jewish community. McCartney married Linda Eastman in 1969, and the two famously stayed together as one of rock music’s most stable, loving couples until Eastman’s death in 1998 due to complications from breast cancer. They made music together: first, on the album “Ram,” the cover of which pictures McCartney grasping two ram’s horns, and subsequently, in McCartney’s post-Beatles group, Wings. Linda’s father, Lee Eastman, was an entertainment lawyer who represented McCartney after the Beatles’ long-term manager — coincidentally also an Epstein, named Brian (but no relation) — passed away.

McCartney’s choice of his father-in-law as manager was famously opposed by fellow Beatle John Lennon, who favored the former Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein. The dispute over management of the Beatles (which pitted a Jewish lawyer against a Jewish accountant) became a major factor in the ultimate dissolution of the Fab Four. Linda Eastman’s brother, John Eastman, later took over from Lee Eastman and remained McCartney’s manager for many years. Linda Eastman wasn’t the first Jewish woman who McCartney had dated That distinction goes to Francie Schwartz, who, as a 23-year-old screenwriter, flew to London from her native New York City on a whim in 1968 to see if she could interest McCartney — who at the time was engaged to be married to Jane Asher — in one of her scripts. The two wound up having an affair during the making of “The White Album,” and were allegedly discovered in bed together at McCartney’s place by Asher upon her surprise return home from a stay in India. Asher subsequently broke off the engagement; McCartney and Schwartz soon split, and McCartney took up with Linda Eastman.

McCartney wasn’t the only Beatle to enjoy a storied and enduring marriage to a Jewish woman. Ringo Starr and one-time Bond girl and Playboy model Barbara Bach — born Barbara Goldbach, a native of Jackson Heights, Queens — recently celebrated 32 years of matrimony. While Lennon and McCartney were perhaps the greatest songwriting duo of all time — at least on paper, that is, as we now know that they mostly worked separately on their own songs, even though they were all originally credited to “Lennon–McCartney” — they had their differences. McCartney frowned upon Lennon’s cavalier treatment of his first wife and young son, Julian, whom Lennon basically abandoned once he took up with Yoko Ono, and McCartney once wrote a song to cheer up the youngster. “Hey Jules,” written for Julian Lennon (who later would say he was closer to McCartney than to his own father), became “Hey Jude.” Thus was born one of the most popular rock ballads of all time.

It was Lennon who once said, “Show business is an extension of the Jewish religion.” But it is McCartney — one of the few English rock stars to have defied an unofficial boycott by performing in Israel — who has actually lived it. Seth Rogovoy is a frequent contributor to the Forward, where he has explored the Jewish back stories of David Bowie, Alfred Hitchcock, James Bond and J.R.R. Tolkien, among others. Seth Rogovoy Your Comments The Forward welcomes reader comments in order to promote thoughtful discussion on issues of importance to the Jewish community. In the interest of maintaining a civil forum, The Forward requires that all commenters be appropriately respectful toward our writers, other commenters and the subjects of the articles. Vigorous debate and reasoned critique are welcome; name-calling and personal invective are not and will be deleted. Egregious commenters will be banned from commenting. While we generally do not seek to edit or actively moderate comments, our spam filter prevents most links and certain key words from being posted and the Forward reserves the right to remove comments for any reason.

Barbara Bach - Biography - IMDb Barbara Bach Jump to: Overview (3) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (2) | Trivia (19) Overview (3) 5' 7" (1.7 m) Mini Bio (1) Barbara Goldbach was born to Howard and Marjorie Goldbach in Queens, New York. Her father was a policeman. Barbara is the oldest of 5 children. She met her first husband Augusto Gregorini in New York while she worked as a model and he was visiting from Italy for a business trip in 1966. Barbara followed him to Italy to be with him In 1968, they married. They had 2 children, Francesca (b. 1969) and Gian Andrea (b. 1972). During Gianni's birth, he had the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, nearly choking him, and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, although a later operation improved his condition. In 1975, Barbara and Augusto Gregorini separated when she moved to Los Angeles, California. The couple divorced in 1978, sharing custody of their 2 children.

Barbara met Ringo Starr on the set of Caveman (1981) in 1980, and they became a couple during the filming. Ringo and Barbara were on a holiday in December 1980 when her daughter called to inform them that John Lennon had been shot. Ringo and Barbara went to New York to console Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon . Ringo and Barbara married on April 27, 1981. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Jeannette Spouse (2) (1968 - 16 March 1981) (divorced) (2 children) Trivia (19) Mother, with Augusto Gregorini, of Francesca Gregorini and Gianni Gregorini . A published interview with her in the late 1970s proclaimed her "Queen of the B-Movies". Attended the famous Beatles concert at Shea Stadium in 1965 which is 15 years before she would meet her future husband, Beatles drummer Ringo Starr . Barbara's photo was featured on the cover of "Playboy" magazine in January 1981.

Inside was a photo spread of Barbara, too. She made several other appearances in "Playboy" related to her movie work, especially as a "Bond Girl" in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Barbara was sent to Rome as model for the noted "Seventeen" mag. There she fell in love with an Italian businessman, Augusto Gregorini, who was 11 years her senior. At the age of 18 she married Augusto and moved with him to Rome where she began her film career. Born in Queens, she has three siblings; one older brother and a younger brother and sister. Her mother Marjorie Mary Goldbach née McKnight was Irish Catholic. Her father Howard Irwin Goldbach was Austrian Jewish and a New York City police officer. Her Grandmother was Rumanian. Received a Masters Degree in Psychology from UCLA in 1993. Has involved herself in charity work, including the Live Aid connected "Fashion Aid", and "The Rumanian Angel" appeal which was set up with Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono , George and John's widows. Barbara worked with the "Parents For Safe Food" Campaign.

In 1991, with help from Pattie Boyd (George's ex), she set up a free clinic for addicts called SHARP (Self Help Addiction Recovery Program) in London. While traveling through England in May 1980 Ringo and Barbara suffered a near-fatal car crash, miraculously surviving with few injuries. Ringo decided he never wanted to be separated from Bach again. They married less than a year later. It was between Barbara and Shelley Hack to replace Kate Jackson on Charlie's Angels (1976). The New York-born Barbara was deemed too European and sophisticated for the role and Hack won the part. Hack was not keenly accepted as an "Angel" by audiences, however, and left after only one season. Stepaunt of Lucy Walsh . She graduated from the all-girl Dominican Commercial High School in Jamaica, New York in 1964. Her most famous film role is of a Russian spy in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Because she spoke with a Russian accent in that film, and because most of her other film roles were either in Italian or French, everyone assumed that she was European and refused to cast her in American roles.

The truth is she was born and raised in New York, USA and speaks English with an American accent, even after her marriages to an Italian businessman and to an Englishman Ringo Starr . Roger Moore barely mentions her in his memoir, even though he called The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) as one of the best James Bond films. John Glen later said that he believed that Moore and Bach "weren't the best of buddies" and that she might have found his humor to be juvenile.

Question: Which Bond girl married a Beatle?
Answer: Barbara Bach