Bond girls are forever: Seductive trading cards featuring 007’s femme fatales

01.15.2018
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Bond Girls are Forever

A trading card featuring Swiss actress Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder in 1962’s ‘Dr. No.’

“James? Take me ’round the world one more time.”

—Holly Goodhead (played by actress Lois Chiles) in Moonraker, 1979

The cultural phenomenon surrounding fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond started in 1953 when author Ian Fleming’s first Bond novel Casino Royale was published. Over the course of the next 65 years, Fleming’s books and short stories featuring the exploits of James Bond would become blockbuster films which made actors like Sean Connery and Daniel Craig into international stars. As legendary as Bond is, the women 007 found himself entangled with (in more ways than one) are just as legendary.

In 2003 trading card maker Rittenhouse put out a set of Bond trading cards called Bond Girls are Forever. Each pack contained twenty different black and white images of Bond girls along with their character name and another photo on the back. This collection was a companion set to the super groovy lenticular card set Women of James Bond in Motion. Additional cards related to the series saw the light of day in other Bond-themed card sets such as The Quotable James Bond, Dangerous Liaisons, and The Complete James Bond.

Here’s the thing—if you’re into collecting trading cards some of the ones I’ve mentioned in this post can be elusive and expensive once/if you track them down. This is especially true when it comes to the Bond Girls Are Forever set which I’ve seen going for nearly 500 bucks on eBay. In the case of Ursula Andress and her famous white bikini from Dr. No, Andress’ single card can run you more than 70 dollars—or roughly the price of an actual bikini.

A selection of Bond girl trading cards below—some are slightly NSFW.

The iconic Grace Jones as May Day from 1985’s ‘A View to a Kill.’

Bonita the belly dancer at the El Scorpio night club played by actress Nadja Regin in the pre-title sequence of the 1964 James Bond film ‘Goldfinger.’

The back of actress Jane Seymour’s ‘Bond Girls are Forever’ card as her character Solitaire in 1973’s ‘Live and Let Die.’

Famke Janssen as Xenia Onatopp from 1995’s ‘GoldenEye.’

Tsai Chin as Ling in 1967’s ‘You Only Live Twice.’

Molly Peters as Patricia Fearing in 1965’s ‘Thunderball.’

Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny. Maxwell portrayed Moneypenny in numerous Bond movies from ‘Dr. No’ to 1985’s ‘A View to a Kill.’

Sue Vanner who played a minor but memorable role as the Log Cabin Girl in 1977’s ‘The Spy Who Loved Me.’

Gloria Hendry as Rosie Carver in 1973’s ‘Live And Let Die.’ Hendry is notable not only for being a total badass but also for having the distinction as the first black on-screen love interest of James Bond.

Martine Beswick and Aliza Gur engaged in a cat fight in the 1963 film, ‘From Russia with Love.’

Swedish actress Kristina Wayborn as Magda in ‘Octopussy.’ This card was a part of the ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ series.

Naomi as played by Caroline Munro in 1977’s ‘The Spy Who Loved Me.’ Munro also had a small, uncredited role in 1967’s ‘Casino Royale.’

Madeline Smith as Miss Caruso (an Italian agent in the film) from the 1973 film ‘Live and Let Die.’

Lisa/Leila Guiraut in her role as a gypsy belly dancer named Leila in ‘From Russia With Love.’

Trina Parks as Thumper in 1971’s ‘Diamonds are Forever.’

Margaret Nolan as Dink in ‘Goldfinger.’ In the film Nolan played Bond’s masseuse and was immortalized as the bikini girl painted gold in Robert Brownjohn’s mythical title-sequence from the film.

One of two sets of ten trading cards in the ‘Bond Girls are Forever’ collection. To view a complete list of the actresses and the roles they played, click here.

The second set of ten trading cards from ‘Bond Girls are Forever.’ To view a complete list of the actresses and the roles they played, click here.