Holly Goodhead

She also is good and looks lovely in the previous year's DEATH ON THE NILE which may be where someone saw her.
I love the "Vassar" line. It's one of the random repartee bits that ops up in my head frequently.

It's also always amusing to see how they use her introduction as a way to poke fun at Bond's purported machismo in all of the tour scenes. Roger plays their banter in such a manner that shows bemusement and is in on the joke.

Ah you've just reminded me to give Death on the Nile a watch. I had bought it partly to check out her performance (I was very impressed with her Say Anything cameo and her extended role in Broadcast News) and yet it's still unopened in my drawer! Might make good viewing in January after my catalogue of Christmas films to get through.

Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang wrote:

Ah one of the forgotten Angels. Not sure she'd have worked any better than Chiles if she was the only other name being thrown around at the time. Now Jaclyn Smith in a Bond movie as a damsel in distress is a missed opportunity. Though none of the girls of the 70s and 80s would have really suited her, except maybe Stacey, but I wouldn't swap out Tanya Roberts.

I think Jaclyn would have been been superior to Lois and Tanya.

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang wrote:

Ah one of the forgotten Angels. Not sure she'd have worked any better than Chiles if she was the only other name being thrown around at the time. Now Jaclyn Smith in a Bond movie as a damsel in distress is a missed opportunity. Though none of the girls of the 70s and 80s would have really suited her, except maybe Stacey, but I wouldn't swap out Tanya Roberts.

I think Jaclyn would have been been superior to Lois and Tanya.

She seems a little lightweight for a CIA agent and astronaut with a name like Goodhead (as Chiles is), but I'm sure she'd live up to her name.

Death on the Nile 78 is amazingly and very surprisingly good. It's a bit longer winded than Murder on the Orient Express '74 but in the same vein and feel and John Guillermin does pretty well despite Lumet not being able to make the film. It's the second best of the EMI Christie adaptations and has some really great moments in it-but is most awesome like the first film for seeing great stars once more.

If you like it then the other two films The Mirror Crack'd and Evil under the Sun are highly recommended. The former is literally Bond fan required as it was directed by Hamilton and features Brozzer's first onscreen role which despite being a small single scene part is shall we say...in an interesting location...

With a referral like that it's jumped up a few spots on my list. I have seen The Mirror Crack'd and Evil Under The Sun... In fact I bought Nile at the same time I did the latter two but the Bond connections in those were more enticing (Rigg, Brosnan, Hamilton...)

I loved MOTOE '74 so much I sought out the other EMI films and suddenly found all the Bond connections. They're all great in their warm old fashioned way and feature scene stealing performances from screen legends.

Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang wrote:

Ah one of the forgotten Angels. Not sure she'd have worked any better than Chiles if she was the only other name being thrown around at the time. Now Jaclyn Smith in a Bond movie as a damsel in distress is a missed opportunity. Though none of the girls of the 70s and 80s would have really suited her, except maybe Stacey, but I wouldn't swap out Tanya Roberts.

I'd have hired Olivia Newton-John and written the character around her.

ELO for the title song.

Without a doubt she'd have been picked as a Bond girl had an adventure been set in Australia. Maybe Kara could have been a singer instead of a cellist.

Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang wrote:

Hilly KCMG wrote:

Who else would we have had in 1979? One's tempted to suggest Raquel Welch

I was thinking about this too. Farrah Fawcett?

Hilly, I think I have the answer: Kathleen Turner.

Just gave The War of the Roses a watch and with certain frames of her I found myself thinking of Lois Chiles. Given she'd only be 25 at the time, perhaps it might not have worked as well, but that voice and her acting ability would have certainly given Holly Goodhead the gravitas she deserved... Question is if Moonraker is the film (and script) would warrant and support it.

Yes it could have worked very well actually.
She's incredibly good in Body Heat (1981) and Barry's score really drives home the legendary steamy sequences but also the inherent but yearning darkness than runs through the film.

Keen to check out more of her films. She was great in War of the Roses. Really created a character to love to hate.

Turner in MR is a nice thought, but given that at the time her sole bit of 'onscreen' work was a part in a soap it seems unlikely. Even Bach had had parts in around 10 Italian movies previous to TSWLM.

Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang wrote:

Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang wrote:

Hilly KCMG wrote:

Who else would we have had in 1979? One's tempted to suggest Raquel Welch

I was thinking about this too. Farrah Fawcett?

Hilly, I think I have the answer: Kathleen Turner.

Just gave The War of the Roses a watch and with certain frames of her I found myself thinking of Lois Chiles. Given she'd only be 25 at the time, perhaps it might not have worked as well, but that voice and her acting ability would have certainly given Holly Goodhead the gravitas she deserved... Question is if Moonraker is the film (and script) would warrant and support it.

Inter-esting. Always had a thing for her. Saw Jewel of the Nile a few times when I was younger (I rewatched that and Romancing the Stone other month), War of the Roses is a knockout...Yes. An unknown Turner in 1979 would've been fascinating. She's not a bad actress so you never know and I could see her being a perfect foil to Moore. I'll say this, she's not bad now. I know, I know.

I think she'd certainly be a great foil to Moore's Bond. Imagine that first scene they have together.

The intriguing part is the action. Now I know Chiles other than the fight in the control room atop Moonraker, didn't really fling the fists or whatnot away, but from what I've seen Turner was never that sort of actress and some like to do that (most she does in Jewel of the Nile is seemingly fall off everything from buildings to camels).

But yes, would've loved to seen her in a Bond film. Even a Brozzer film, that smoky voice, either a very old flame of Bond's, some sort of warning voice (perhaps in TND, she is at the party, Bond knows from his past, we're not sure how but clearly, an ally, and she leans in at the bar: "It's not just Carver you have to look out for, old flames...", some bilge but...)

Well, there we go.

I think she would have taken to the action stuff. I'm assuming most of her gymnastic scenes in War of the Roses used a stunt double, but there was still an athletic physicality to her that might make a good fighter (by Bond girl standards, anyway).

She would have been great in the series at least somewhere-but I don't know if she could have at that time done the same spunky "it's my way buster" shtick that is what we all like about Holly.

Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang wrote:

Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang wrote:

Hilly KCMG wrote:

Who else would we have had in 1979? One's tempted to suggest Raquel Welch

I was thinking about this too. Farrah Fawcett?

Hilly, I think I have the answer: Kathleen Turner.

Just gave The War of the Roses a watch and with certain frames of her I found myself thinking of Lois Chiles. Given she'd only be 25 at the time, perhaps it might not have worked as well, but that voice and her acting ability would have certainly given Holly Goodhead the gravitas she deserved... Question is if Moonraker is the film (and script) would warrant and support it.

Ken Russell Crimes of Passion is the only movie I have seen her in but you do get to see a lot of her

She might have made a good Tiffany Case. Would have been a touch young for the role, I suppose, though...

If she was opposite Lazenby's Bond in DAF, she wouldn't have been too young. Yes, I could see her also as a Tiff.

That's a great idea actually. I can totally see her in her later career as having done a version of Fleming's Tiffany.

hegottheboot wrote:

but I don't know if she could have at that time done the same spunky "it's my way buster" shtick that is what we all like about Holly.

I'm not sure Chiles could either!

Sarai wrote:

Ken Russell Crimes of Passion is the only movie I have seen her in but you do get to see a lot of her

I'll have to check it out!

PK wrote:

She might have made a good Tiffany Case. Would have been a touch young for the role, I suppose, though...

Hilly wrote:

If she was opposite Lazenby's Bond in DAF, she wouldn't have been too young. Yes, I could see her also as a Tiff.

I love that idea. Perhaps if TMWTGG was made after OHMSS, then DAF later in the 70s with Lazenby still as Bond...