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Being chosen as the latest Bond girl - playing sultry Solange opposite the new James Bond, Daniel Craig, in Casino Royale - is considered 'the big break' for Italian model-turned-actress Caterina Murino (right).
Since Ursula Andress surfaced dripping wet in 1962's Dr No - judged cinema's sexiest moment ever in a recent poll - no Bond film has been complete without one or two objects of desire for 007. But how big a break did it turn out to be for the actresses involved?
Andress, who this year celebrated her 70th, received a Golden Globe as Best Promising Newcomer shortly after portraying Honey Ryder in Dr No. She worked on a score of mostly light European comedies - among them the spoof Bond film Casino Royale - until her film career 'ended with a bang' in 1980 when she became pregnant by her co-star while
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playing Aphrodite in Clash Of the Titans.
The secondary Bond Girl in Dr No - Zena Marshall, who played Miss Taro - has never been seen since Act Of Betrayal, a TV play, back in 1971.
Britt Ekland considers playing Mary Goodnight in The Man With The Golden Gun "one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done... but it did nothing for my career". Daniela Bianchi - Tatiana Romanova in From Russia With Love - would agree; she subsequently worked on the "excruciating" Operation Kid Brother (starring Sean Connery's brother Neil).
Lynn-Holly Johnson - Bibi in For Your Eyes Only - was awarded the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress in her following film and has since preferred to busy herself "nautically theming" a 2,500 sq/ft beach house designed by her architect husband. 
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