Honor Blackman - Goldfinger (1964)

With the most memorable (and improbable) Bond girl name in the film series' history. She introduced herself to a tranquilized Bond (Connery) who awakened on Goldfinger's jet: "My name is Pussy Galore." Bond replied: "I must be dreaming." He also told her: "You're a woman of many parts, Pussy!" She was a pilot for villain Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) intent on spraying deadly Delta-9 nerve gas over Fort Knox to ultimately destabilize the western economy - she was one of a team of all-female pilots, Pussy Galore's Flying Circus, possibly lesbian-leaning. She often took a stance with her hands on hips, and as she held a gun on Bond, said: "Do you want to play it easy, or the hard way?" She wrestled with Bond in the hay in a horse stable, something that convinced her of the appeal of heterosexuality as he lowered himself down on her and kissed her. By film's end after helping Bond (by switching the gas canisters), she was kissing him under a parachute after the demise of Goldfinger.

Martine Beswick - From Russia With Love (1963)

Martine Beswick starred as cat-fighting fiery gypsy wench Zora. She engaged in the famous "catfight" scene with her gypsy rival Vida (played by former Miss Israel Aliza Gur), fighting to the death for the affections of the same man. When the fight was cut short, Bond (Connery) was allowed to spend the night with the girl of his choice.

Daniela Bianchi - From Russia With Love (1963)

A low-level Soviet (Istanbul) embassy cypher clerk/employee with a Russian name, Tatiana, was hired by evil terrorist organization SPECTRE member/officer Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya), under orders from Ernst Blofeld (Anthony Dawson), to seduce and destroy Bond (Connery) in order to avenge the killing of Dr. No. She was to entice him (through her companionship and the promise of defection) to acquire a Lektor code machine from the Russians, an encryption or crytopgraphic device, so that SPECTRE could kill him. She revealed that she had fallen in love with him through a personnel photo. She first encountered Bond by awaiting him in bed (wearing only a sexy black velvet choker) in his Istanbul hotel suite, unaware that they were being filmed through a one-way mirror during their subsequent love-making. At one point, she asked Bond: "Will you make love to me all the time in England?" - part of a personal deal in which he would take her back to England (on the Orient Express) with the decoder. When she confessed: "I think my mouth is too big," Bond replied: "It's just the right size - for me that is." The film ended with the romantic pair sailing away in a Venice gondola after Tatiana shot Klebb (who was disguised as a maid, with a dagger-tipped shoe with poison venom).

Ursula Andress - Dr. No (1962)

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In the film's most unforgettable sequence, Bond (Connery) awakened to the sound of a girl's voice singing "Underneath the Mango Tree." On the Crab Key beach rising Venus-like from the water with giant seashells that she was poaching, Bond had his first view of Honey Ryder, an innocent, voluptuous native island girl/diver wearing a sexy, white bikini and hunting knife. Honey asked: "What are you doing here? Looking for shells?" Bond (glibly) replied: "No, I'm just looking." [Note: In the original Ian Fleming 1958 novel, Honeychile emerged from the water naked.] She explained how she didn't go to school, but resourcefully learned everything as a child by reading a set of encyclopedias ("I started at A when I was eight, now I've reached T. I bet I know a lot more things than you do!"). When she was taken captive with Bond by Dr. No, they both had to take decontamination showers. By film's end, Bond rescued her from drowning and they escaped Crab Key in one of Dr. No's boats - conveniently running out of gas.