Goldfinger Jill Masterson, Shirley Eaton

Shirley Eaton was a glamorous blonde actress who appeared in many British black and white comedies in the fifties and onwards.

She was born in London. Throughout her career, she has appeared with many of the main British male comedy stars from the period including Jimmy Edwards, Max Bygraves, Bob Monkhouse and Arthur Askey. Her female co-stars included Peggy Mount, Thora Hird and Dora Bryan among others. In any British film featuring comedy actors like Kenneth Connor she's liable to turn up as the glamorous love interest.

Early roles include Three Men In A Boat (1956) and Date with Disaster (1957), starring with American Tom Drake. She also worked with The Crazy Gang in Life Is a Circus (1958). Later she starred in an entertaining version of Ten Little Indians (1965), co-starring American singer and actor Fabian. She also appeared in several early Carry On films, but did little TV work.

However, undoubtedly Eaton's most famous role was that of Jill Masterson in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger. Her character's demise, being painted head to toe in gold paint and suffering skin suffocation, became an iconic image of the film and inadvertantly lead to the creation of an urban legend concerning both the method of death and the actress' own fate. Ms. Eaton, very much alive, later appeared in a 2003 episode of the TV documentary series Mythbusters to help debunk the legend.

Shirley Eaton Facts

Occupation

Actress

Birthday

January, 12 1937

Sign

Capricorn

Birthplace

London, England United Kingdom

Height

5' 10" (1m78)

Shirley Eaton

Den "gyllene flickan" Shirley Eaton, Idén byggde på en verklig schweizisk modell som målade sig och dog av kvävning.

Hon är också känd för att vara den Bondbruden som snarare blev känd för sin makeup än sin rolltolkning. I filmen Goldfinger spelar hon figuren Jill Masterson som dör efter att över hela kroppen ha blivit målad med guldfärg. Det tog hela två timmar att måla artisten. Makeupartister var Basil Newall och Paul Rabiger. En annan intressant sak är att rolltolkaren i början av filmen är Margaret Nolan vilken även är den person som finns på filmposters. Hon var från början kontrakterad för den fem minuter långa insatsen.

Rykten har gått om att även Shirley Eaton skulle ha avlidit vilket är helt felaktigt. Vid inspelningen närvarade läkare som hela tiden övervakade henne - dessutom lämnade en fläck på magen utifall att. På Discovery Channel har man på tv-programmet Mythbusters testat om en människa avlider om huden är helt täckt av färg - det gör man inte. Denna hypotes ställd av Ian Fleming i boken Goldfinger var alltså falsk men gav till upphov att många trodde att den var sann.

The myth was further bolstered by rumors that Shirley Eaton had actually died on set from asphyxiation due to the gold paint	The belief depends on the incorrect supposition that respiration occurs, at least in part, through the skin, a fallacy that has been discredited in scientific circles since the Renaissance.	However, due to the fact that the skin is the main surface for temperature exchange, one can die from heat accumulation if it is locked tightly for too long.