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"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020

The First Avenger - Honor Blackman RIP


Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman) and John Steed (Patrick Macnee)

The First Avenger
  • Women from the olden days movies were basically boring. They were largely props on the sets or love interests - - - and were always worried they might break a nail.
  • But in 1961 (predating James Bond) along comes The Avengers.  Suddenly Honor Blackman becomes the first female Superhero on the small or large screen. No longer worried about breaking a nail, a leather clad Blackman is beating the living crap out of bad guys- - - - and yes I do own the complete DVD Avengers set.    


Honor Blackman, the potent British actress who took James Bond’s breath away as Pussy Galore in “Goldfinger” and who starred as the leather-clad, judo-flipping Cathy Gale in “The Avengers,” has died. 

She was 94.

Blackman’s family said in a statement Monday that she died peacefully of natural causes at her home in Lewes, in southeastern England.

The honey-voiced Blackman first became a household name in the 1960s spy TV series “The Avengers.” She joined the show in the second season as Cathy Gale, the leather-wearing anthropologist with martial arts skills.

But Blackman’s most famous role was as Pussy Galore in 1964’s “Goldfinger,” the third Bond movie. In it, she made an impression from the start, memorably introducing herself to Sean Connery’s just awoken James Bond.

Blackman was 39 when she landed the role of Bond’s love interest, and she long maintained the term of “Bond girl” didn’t apply to her. In the film, Pussy Galore is the leader of a group of female aviators enlisted by the villain Auric Goldfinger. She uses judo (a skill carried over from “The Avengers”) to attack Bond, who later holds her down to kiss her.

Blackman considered Pussy Galore a kind of early feminist, and a different breed from the average Bond woman.

“In so many of the films, the girls just looked at James and fell flat on their backs,” Blackman told the magazine TV Times in 2014. “Yet Pussy Galore was a career woman — a pilot who had her own air force, which was very impressive. She was never a bimbo.”

L.A. Times . . . .








Honor as the Goddess Hera in
Jason and the Argonauts

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