Diana Rigg

The world’s most famous secret agent is open to anything, as long as there are cards involved. The card table is where we first meet 007 in Dr. No, when Sean Connery’s James Bond, resplendent in a dinner jacket and brimming with machismo, wins big at baccarat.

However, by 1969, the world of Bond was in a state of flux no card game could fix. After five films, Connery had stashed his Aston Martin in the garage. For , producers drafted in an Australian model named George Lazenby to play the cunning agent with a licence to kill. Lazenby had big shoes to fill. To give him the cinematic equivalent of scaffolding, producers searched for an established female lead to star as Tracy, the only woman in the 007 canon who finishes the film