SWEET REST, SYLVIA TRENCH.......BQ REMEMBERS EUNICE GAYSON, BOND'S FIRST BOFF.......

            "I admire your courage....Mr......?"

            "Bond.......James Bond."

            And with that exchange at the baccarat table, Eunice Gayson and Sean Connery set in motion the cinema iconography of the James Bond series.......(the film clip of this lives forever in countless
retrospectives of the world's most unforgettable movie moments.......)

              Gayson played Sylvia Trench, the first of many, many stunning women who'd fall into bed with 007 in a heartbeat........and had fate (and the capricious nature of filmmaking) not intervened, her character might have become a regular member of the Bond repertory troupe, along with Lois Maxwell(Miss Moneypenny), M (Bernard Lee) and Q (Desmond Llewyellen)
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              It was director Terence Young's idea to make Gayson's character a running gag in the series......with Sylvia Trench always managing to score a one night quickie out of Bond before Her Majesty's Secret Service calls upon him to save the world......

               She did get to repeat the role in Young's second Bond, "From Russia With Love"  (with Bond managing to squeeze in some picnic afternoon delight with Sylvia before zipping off to Istanbul).......

             But when Guy Hamilton assumed direction of "Goldfinger", Gayson's Sylvia was gone, never to reappear...........leaving us only to imagine whether Sylvia moved on to a more stable relationship.....or maybe  still remained hanging around in Bond's apartment, dressed only in high heels and one of his dress shirts.....

             Rest In Piece  Eunice Gayson, forever a world class beauty and the very first girl entranced by cinema's most famous secret agent.....