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Remembering The Incredible Honor BlackmanMost widely recognized as the Bond girl, Honor Blackman was an actress who possessed both beauty and brains. She cho...
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- VINTAGE ARCHIVES
A favourite amongst several generations, and always pleasure to watch, from her earliest film and television roles from 1947 onwards (her last acting televis...
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A little hommage to the recently deceased legendary actress Honor Blackman.This video includes footage and music from Goldfinger (1964)
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- The James Bond Complex
Honor Blackman (22 August 1925 – 5 April 2020) was an English actress and singer, known for the roles of Cathy Gale in The Avengers [1] (1962–1964), Bond girl Pussy Galore in Goldfinger (1964), Julia Daggett in Shalako (1968), and Hera in Jason and the Argonauts (1963).
- Early life
- Acting career
- Later career
- Film
- Later years
One of four children, Blackman was born in London's East End to a statistician father employed with the civil service and a homemaker mother. She received diction lessons as a teenager and later attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She temporarily followed in her father's footsteps with a job in the civil service, and then was, of all ...
Blackman received her first acting work on stage in London's West End as an understudy for \"The Guinea Pig\". She continued with roles in \"The Gleam\" (1946) and \"The Blind Goddess\" (1947), before moving into film. She debuted with Fame Is the Spur (1947), starring Michael Redgrave. In that picture, Blackman dies from a horse-riding accident. T...
The stress and struggles of advancing her career coupled with a divorce from her first husband, Bill Sankey, caused Blackman to suffer a nervous collapse in the mid-1950s. After a brief time recovering in a hospital, she regained her health and began rebuilding her career with rather obligatory B-level fare, at first. That reentry culminated with a...
Not out of work long, Blackman took on the role of Greek goddess \"Hera\" in popular movie adventure Jason and the Argonauts (1963) (1963) with marvelous Ray Harryhausen and melodrama Life at the Top (1965) (1965) with Laurence Harvey. She then filmed the most popular role of her career: \"Pussy Galore\". In the classic \"James Bond\" movie Goldfin...
That resurgence of popularity should have led to better film opportunities but did not. Blackman toiled for the most part in low-level melodramas and routine adventures. She earned raves on stage, however, as the blind heroine of the thriller \"Wait Until Dark\" as well as for her dual roles in \"Mr. and Mrs.\", a production based on two of Noël Co...
- August 22, 1925
- April 5, 2020
Apr 6, 2020 · April 7, 2020 - 3:36AM. News Corp Australia Network. Legendary Bond girl Honor Blackman has died aged 94 from natural causes. The star was famous for playing Pussy Galore in 1964 James Bond classic Goldfinger. Honor Blackman in 2008. Picture: Getty Images.
Apr 6, 2020 · Honor Blackman, the British actress who played Pussy Galore in the James Bond film Goldfinger, has died at the age of 94. In a statement, her family said she died peacefully of natural causes...
