In Memoriam: Julie Harris, costume designer of "Live and Let Die" and "Casino Royale" (1967) has passed away

007 Travelers is saddened to hear that costume designer Julie Harris has passed away.

Who: Julie Harris
Born: 26 March 1921, London, England
Died: 30 May 2015 London, England (Cause of death: Chest infection)

Harris designed clothes worn by the Beatles in the films "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!" and by Sir Roger Moore in the James Bond film "Live and Let Die" (1973).

She won an Oscar in 1966 for the Julie Christie film "Darling".

Her Bafta came the following year for her work on "The Wrong Box".

Bond credits of Julie Harris:

Costume designer in:

"Casino Royale" (1967) 
"Live and Let Die" (1973)

Source: BBC News
Photo: PA

Julie Harris (right) designed clothes worn by Ursula Andress (left)
in 1967's "Casino Royale"

Bond girl: Vesper Lynd (1967)

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Bond girl: Vesper Lynd
007 Film: Casino Royale (1967)
Actress: Ursula Andress

Bond connection: Vesper is depicted as a former secret agent who has since become a multi-millionaire with a penchant for wearing ridiculously extravagant outfits at her office ("because if I wore it in the street people might stare"). Bond now in the position of M at MI6, uses a discount for her past due taxes to bribe her into becoming another 007 agent, and to recruit baccarat expert Evelyn Tremble into stopping Le Chiffre.

Vesper and Tremble have an affair during which she eliminates an enemy agent sent to seduce Tremble ("Miss Goodthighs"). Ultimately, however, she betrays Tremble to Le Chiffre and SMERSH, declaring to Tremble, "Never trust a rich spy" before killing him with a machine gun hidden inside a bagpipe. Though her ultimate fate is not revealed in the film, in the closing credits she is shown as an angel playing a harp, showing her to be one of the "seven James Bonds at Casino Royale" killed by an atomic explosion.

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Bond girl: Honey Ryder

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Bond girl: Honey Ryder

007 Film: Dr. No (1962)
Actress: Ursula Andress

Bond connection: She is a beachcomber making a living selling seashells in Miami. she tells Bond how her father died when on Crab Key, and that she was raped by a local landlord. Honey relates how she got her revenge by putting a black widow spider in his mosquito net and causing his lingering death. After Bond kills Doctor No, James Bond saves her from the island and they make love in a towed boat.







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