Carole Bouquet was hot, but turkeyneck Roger Moore stayed around wayyyy to long.
Posted on 06/07/2009 8:36:21 PM PDT by Steelfish
James Bond prefers brunettes, research says
Gentlemen may prefer blondes but Britain's most sophisticated secret service agent tends to go for brunettes, according to an extensive investigation into James Bond's love life.
By Roger Dobson 07 Jun 2009
MI6 agent Strawberry Fields, played by Gemma Arterton, is one of the nine per cent of red-haired Bond girls Photo: EON Productions
Academics who set out to discover what makes the ideal Bond girl found that apart from having long dark hair, she is likely to have an American accent – and to carry a weapon.
The unexpected findings were reached by a team who assessed the physical traits of all 195 female characters in the first 20 Bond movies, then contrasted the characteristics of the 98 who had "sexual contact" with Bond with those of the 97 who did not.
Their research, published in the journal Sex Roles, examines how Bond girls have changed over the years as well as exploring what kind of women end up in the spy's arms.
Unsurprisingly, Bond's sexual partners also tend to be younger, slimmer and more attractive than the women he does not bed – and they are less likely to wear glasses.
Those who fit the ideal type include Lois Chiles as Dr Holly Goodhead in Moonraker (1979) and Lana Wood as Plenty O'Toole in Diamonds Are Forever (1971).
The researchers studied all women who had speaking roles or who appeared in two or more scenes in each film from Dr No in 1962, starring Sean Connery, to Die Another Day in 2002, starring Pierce Brosnan. The only film during the period that was excluded was Never Say Never Again (1983), because it was a remake of Thunderball.
The average age of the women was estimated at 26. Down the years, 46...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I vote for Pussy Galore.
I have a little 4’11” brunette I have a major thing for. And as soon as she’d done with therapy...
> Those who fit the ideal type include Lois Chiles as Dr Holly Goodhead in Moonraker (1979) and Lana Wood as Plenty O’Toole in Diamonds Are Forever (1971).<
They really had good porn names back then. The title should also read : Bond prefers naked/hot redheads’.
Carole Bouquet was hot, but turkeyneck Roger Moore stayed around wayyyy to long.
I vote for Ms Galore too. I’ll tell you though, if most of the bleached blondes we see on television would let their hair go natural, we’d have a lot more brunettes.
Thank heavens someone did this study. I feel better. Isn’t being liked by Bond a virtual guarantee that you’re going to get knocked off?
~a blonde
I vote for Jill St. John. Man, was she hot in Diamonds!
Raquel Welch is still all-time best.
Naomi (Caroline Munro), the helicopter pilot from The Spy Who Loved Me.
Yowza.
James is a smart man....brunettes rule
Me too.
“MI6 agent Strawberry Fields, played by Gemma Arterton, is one of the nine per cent of red-haired Bond girls”
Even Bond can’t conquer us.
How about a Teri Hatcher? Or one of my faves, Sophie Marceau.
According to Wikipedia, she “holds the distinction of being the first woman ever undeniably killed by James Bond.”
Sophie Marceau was a knock-out!
Sophie
wow!
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