Andress, herself, would set a benchmark for “Bond Girls” that would give an opportunity for numerous actresses to inhabit personas of strong, smart and sexy women often equal to Bond himself. The image of Ursula Andress emerging from the ocean under the leering gaze of Connery was a compelling one, and his characterization was so strong that it actually prompted Fleming to write a back-story for Bond to fit the image of Connery, a robust and brooding Scotsman, in the novel You Only Live Twice, which followed the film release of Dr.
Relatively few people today read the James Bond novels and short stories, so the image and legend of his character in the popular imagination was set by Sean Connery’s portrayal of Bond in the 1962 film production of Dr.
Against the advice of an ex-girlfriend, he published it under his real name and from there, the Bond character took on a life of it’s own. It occupied his time as a diversion from real life in the count-down to marriage with his then pregnant fiancé Ann Charteris Fleming, the widow of a friend fictionalized in Bond novels. The character Ian Fleming created for the first Bond book published in 1953, Casino Royale, was conceived as composite of American singer Hoagy Carmichael and Fleming himself, ordinary in appearance and habits, living an extraordinary life in perilous times.įleming, an intelligence officer in the British Royal Navy during WWII, was itching to write a spy novel drawing on the personal experiences of himself, his brother and friends, and in the early stages of the Cold War, he found the perfect milieu in a Europe then actually infested with spies and intrigue.
In fiction, just as real life, things don’t always go quite as planned. Ian Fleming, The New Yorker, 21 April 1962
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