The best Bond girl

I completely agree! Diana Rigg plays the part with such class and dignity. The scene in which she recites part of a play by James Elroy Flecker to Blofeld is unforgetable:

Thy dawn, O Master of the World, thy dawn;
For thee the sunlight creeps across the lawn,
For thee the ships are drawn down to the waves,
For thee the markets throng with myriad slaves,
For thee the hammer on the anvil rings,
For thee the poet of beguilement sings.

i was just going to mention the part where she recites the poem. only rigg could do that in a bond film

if only she did more big-budget films. anyone seen The Assasination Beareu?

I agree, that poem bit was great. Although truthfuly the end of the film still breaks my heart.

I have seen assasination Bureau, it was pretty good.

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Far and away my favorite Bond girl! My second favorite is Claudine Auger 'Domino' from Thunderball. OHMSS is not my favorite Bond film but I think it gets more of a bum rap than it deserves.

Without a doubt the finest actress to star in a Bond film until Judi Dench took over as M. I had wished that Ms Rigg could have been M but that's not to say anything negative about Ms Dench. It would be great if Diana Rigg finds a role in a Bond film in the future.

she has said on many occasion (rigg that is) that she would love to play a villian, in the big sets. the really bad type of villian. nasty. she is good at that! but with her being a bond girl already it might not happen. plus rigg isn't a bankable star.

i mean no future film projects. and as much as i LOVE her and her work she hasn't done anything spectacular in film. she has said this herself and says its one of her regrets.

True, she's always been more of a theatre actress. I wish she'd had more luck with her film career. Mind you, it's not like her film career's over, she was great in the painted veil.

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It might come as something of a surprise to many that screen actors do theater because it is the purest form of acting. It's not surprising that most screen personalities don't do theater since its so different. I happen to love theater, preferring it to any form of screen presentation. Rigg is perhaps the finest female theater actor if her generation and while she never made a big splash on screen that I believe has less to do with her and more to do with her unwillingness to take any roll offered.

I loved her performance in the sixth Bond film. While each of the Bond films has beautiful women in various rolls, Rigg's character Tracy is the only one I have ever really cared about. Perhaps this is because I've always liked Rigg but I have to think it is mostly owing to how this character was played. While other Bond women may have been more beautiful, Rigg brought such a well refined sense of style to her character. There are many women who are very beautiful but because that lack style they are unappealing except as sexual objects. Tracy's murder at the end of On Her Majesty's Secret Service felt like a personal loss and one could well understand Bond's emotional distress because he wasn't likely to meet another woman quite like her again.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service does get a bad rap and I'm sure this has to do with the fact that it was the first Bond movie without Sean Connery. Lazenby however did remarkably well in the roll. The story was compelling, there was a properly evil villain and villainess, and great stunts, and, it was certainly better than most of the Roger Moore Bond films that followed.