That earns it a solid place in the history books as the earliest filming of a Bond tale and makes Linda Christian Hollywood’s original “ Bond girl.” (Sorry, Ursula Andress.)īetter still, yesterday I found the full hour of that 1954 small-screen version of Casino Royale on YouTube. This version of Casino Royale, broadcast on October 21, 1954, as part of the CBS-TV series Climax! and re-casting Fleming’s man as a CIA agent, “Jimmy” Bond, predated Sean Connery’s debut as Agent 007, in Dr. She played Valerie Mathis, a character who isn’t in the book but who stood in for the more-familiar Vesper Lynd (and, like Lynd, eventually betrayed Bond). More interesting for Rap Sheet readers is that Christian starred alongside actor Barry Nelson in a one-hour American TV adaptation of Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953). Its subject is Linda Christian (1923-2011), a Mexican-born actress who’s said to have relocated to Hollywood after enjoying a romantic fling with Errol Flynn, and who went on to appear in a variety of movies and TV shows on both sides of the border. Last week Paul Bishop-a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department, as well as an author and blogger-posted the photo above on his Facebook page.
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