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Goldfinger
Oscar-winning Dubbing Editor Norman Wanstall photographed with
Oddjob lookalike and ‘Golden Girl’, courtesy of ‘Style
Lookalikes’, to promote the sale in auction at
Bonhams on December
10, 2015 of the ‘GOLDFINGER portfolio’ number #007, which
has been signed by a selection of artistes from behind and in
front of the camera of the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger,
and is being sold in aid of The Great Ormond Street Hospital
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‘GOLDFINGER Portfolio’ number #007
All proceeds of this
auction item will be received by The Great Ormond
Street Hospital Charity.
Goldfinger is without doubt the most famous, iconic
and memorable of all the James Bond 007 films, and on its original release
in 1964 it set movie screens alight around the world with a heady cocktail
of creativity that became an entertainment phenomenon; from its glittering
opening credit titles designed by Robert Brownjohn, accompanied by Shirley
Bassey belting out its brassy main title theme written by John Barry,
Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, through to the body of an unfortunate
woman painted gold, a man with a deadly steel-rimmed ‘flying’ bowler hat,
an Aston Martin DB5 ‘with modifications’, a Bond Girl whose feline name
caused much trepidation in the American media, death by laser beam, a
larger than life villain with the Midas touch, and the golden gleaming
cathedral-like interior of Fort Knox, as imagined by brilliant Production
Designer Ken Adam – with all these elements in place it is hardly
surprising that the heady concoction that is Goldfinger impressed
so many people in 1964, and now, over 50 years later, remains a popular
evergreen entertainment for successive generations of film fans and Bond
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The ‘GOLDFINGER portfolio’ is the ultimate
Goldfinger collectable and was co-written, designed and published in
2014 by Graham Rye, editor & publisher of 007 MAGAZINE. This 350-page
metal covered book was published as a Limited Numbered Edition of 350
copies (originally priced £350 per copy) and features over 1,000 rare and
never-before-published images from the 007 MAGAZINE ARCHIVE with detailed
informational photo captions throughout, and also includes: Call Sheets,
Production Documents, Press Releases, Gadget Blueprints, Ken Adam
Sketches, Press Ads, Contact Sheets, UK Front of House sets, the complete
UK theatrical Exhibitors’ Campaign Book; all-new interviews with the
Goldfinger girls: Nadja Regin, Margaret Nolan, Shirley Eaton, and the
‘Voice of the Bond Girls’, Nikki van der Zyl – and also includes images
from two scenes shot but cut from the film and featured here for the first
time! |
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Shirley Eaton |
Nikki van der Zyl |
Caron Gardner |
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The ‘GOLDFINGER
portfolio’ Limited Numbered Edition #007 has been signed by a
selection of artistes who worked on and appeared in the 1964 film
Goldfinger, including: Norman Wanstall, Dubbing Editor – the first
person to ever win an Oscar for a James Bond film; Sir Ken Adam – the
Oscar winning Production Designer who designed the sets for Dr. No,
Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice,
Diamonds Are Forever, The Spy Who Loved Me, and Moonraker;
Honor Blackman, the inimitable Pussy Galore, Shirley Eaton – whose gold
painted corpse Bond discovers in his Miami hotel bedroom; Tania Mallet who
as Tilly Masterson falls victim to Oddjob’s deadly bowler hat; Nikki van
der Zyl – who famously re-voiced Ursula Andress in Dr. No and other
actresses in the Bond series including the film Goldfinger; Nadja
Regin – the actress who appears with Sean Connery in Goldfinger’s
famous ‘shocking’ pre-credit sequence, and in whose eyes Bond spies an
oncoming assailant behind him; and Caron Gardner – the actress who
portrayed one of the squadron of femme fatales pilots in Pussy Galore’s
Flying Circus. |
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Nadja Regin |
Honor Blackman |
Tania Mallet |
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Sir Ken Adam kindly signed the ‘GOLDFINGER
portfolio’ when author Graham Rye recently visited his home. |
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For further information
please contact Graham Rye at
editor@007magazine.co.uk |
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