Film fatales: women in espionage films and television, 1962-1973

Tom Lisanti, Louis Paul

McFarland, 2002 - Performing Arts - 341 pages

Sean Connery began the sixties spy movie boom playing James Bond in Dr. No and From Russia with Love. Their success inspired every studio in Hollywood and Europe to release everything from serious knockoffs to spoofs on the genre featuring debonair men, futuristic gadgets, exotic locales, and some of the world's most beautiful actresses whose roles ranged from the innocent caught up in a nefarious plot to the femme fatale.
Profiled herein are 107 dazzling women, well-known and unknown, who had film and television appearances in the spy genre. They include superstars Doris Day in Caprice, Raquel Welch in Fathom, and Ann-Margret in Murderer's Row; international sex symbols Ursula Andress in Dr. No and Casino Royale, Elke Sommer in Deadlier Than the Male, and Senta Berger in The Spy with My Face; and forgotten lovelies Greta Chi in Fathom, Alizia Gur in From Russia with Love, and Maggie Thrett in Out of Sight. Each profile includes a filmography that lists the actresses' more notable films. Some include the actresses' candid comments and anecdotes about their films and television shows, the people they worked with, and their feelings about acting in the spy genre are offered throughout. A list of websites that provide further information on women in spy films and television is also included.

Contents

• Foreword by Eileen ONeill: 1
• Introduction: 7
• Beverly Adams: 33
• Pier Angeli: 39
• Claudine Auger: 46
• Alexandra Bastedo: 53
• Martine Beswicke: 60
• Jacqueline Bisset: 66
• Erika Blanc: 73
• Barbara Bouchet: 79
• Anna Capri: 86
• Greta Chi: 93
• Yvonne Craig: 101
• Danielle De Metz: 109
• Andrea Dromm: 117
• Barbara Feldon: 125
• Eunice Gayson: 131
• Alizia Gur: 137
• Mie Hama: 143
• Carol Lynley: 200
• Lois Maxwell: 208
• Donna Michelle: 216
• Rosalba Neri: 223
• Eileen ONeill: 232
• Trina Parks: 240
• Websites: 319

About the author

Tom Lisanti is the author of McFarland's Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies (2005), Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties (2003), Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962?1973 (2002, coauthored with Louis Paul) and Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema: Interviews with 20 Actresses from Biker, Beach, and Elvis Movies (2001). He is a contributing writer for Cinema Retro magazine and lives in New York.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Film fatales: women in espionage films and television, 1962-1973
• Authors: Tom Lisanti, Louis Paul
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: McFarland, 2002
• ISBN: 0786411945, 9780786411948
• Length: 341 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Film & Video / General; Performing Arts / Film & Video / History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Television / History & Criticism; Social Science / Women's Studies