James Bond : Who are you? Pussy Galore : My name is Pussy Galore. James Bond : I must be dreaming. Pussy Galore : What happened? Where's Goldfinger? James Bond : Playing his golden harp. James Bond : Manners, Oddjob.

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Pussy Galore is a fictional character in the Ian Fleming James Bond novel Goldfinger and the film of the same name. In the film, she is played by Honor Blackman. The character returns in the Bond continuation novel Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz , set in the s two weeks after the events of Goldfinger. Blanche Blackwell , a Jamaican of Anglo- Jewish descent, is thought to have been the love of Fleming's later life and his model for Pussy Galore. In Fleming's novel Goldfinger , Pussy Galore is the only woman in the United States known to be running an organized crime gang. Initially trapeze artists, her group of performing catwomen, "Pussy Galore and her Abrocats", is unsuccessful, and so the women train as cat burglars instead.
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Peter Bradshaw on Honor Blackman: an elegant and witty star who never took herself too seriously Honor Blackman: a life in pictures. Honor Blackman, the actor best known for playing the Bond girl Pussy Galore, has died aged Blackman, who became a household name in the s as Cathy Gale in The Avengers and had a career spanning eight decades, died of natural causes unrelated to coronavirus. She died peacefully of natural causes at her home in Lewes, Sussex, surrounded by her family.
She introduces herself sternly and quickly, establishing the no-nonsense attitude to Bond's pithy charm. Do you want to play it easy, or the hard way? And this isn't a tranquillizer gun. It takes a lot of hard work for Bond to persuade the slightly eccentric and very dangerous Pussy to see his point of view, but at the end of the mission, is duly rewarded with a soft parachute landing. With a distinct dislike for the male persuasion it takes her a long time to warm to 's masculine allure. She trains the top female stunt pilots from all over the world to become members of the exclusive Pussy Galore's Flying Circus. Her task is to set up her pilots to spray the Delta-9 Nerve Gas that will wipe out the military presence surrounding Fort Knox. She is eventually turned to the side of good by the ever-suave Agent and rigs the gas canisters with a harmless substitute. Her career began when she was admitted to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. While in college she worked in a variety of part time jobs to keep the fees and bills paid.