RIP Miss Moneypenny
Mickles
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Lois Maxwell - who played Miss Moneypenny for over 20 years - has died aged 80.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7020553.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7020553.stm
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As Sir Roger has said: "She was always fun and she was wonderful to be with".
A part of my childhood is now gone forever.
Fare thee well, Lois Maxwell, the greatest Moneypenny ever.
Bond’s Beretta
The Handguns of Ian Fleming's James Bond
My thoughts and prayers go out to her friends and family.
Lois, you were the best! -{
Relive some of Lois's greatest moments as Miss Moneypenny here.
-Roger Moore
I was at a Bond convention in 1990 and she sat behind me for the showing of For Your Eyes Only and she was chuckling away and cracking jokes with a very elderly Geoffrey Keene (Minister of Defence) before the film started and singing its praises when it ended.
Lovely lady
You will be missed.
"You never take me to dinner looking like this, James...you never take me to dinner."
Can't believe she's gone , she was always around...I mean 14 freakin Bonds....
An absolutely iconic actress in an iconic role.
My condolences to her family and friends.
My Condolences to her friends and family.
the only good thing is that she will live on forever in the Bond movies. good bye Lois Maxwell you shall be missed.
So true. She will be indelibly known as the woman who cast the mold of Moneypenny
...no else even comes close.
You can listen to it here.
Roger and Lois had been close friends for years. He is no doubt distraught by this...
-Roger Moore
Some of our UK members are likely to find this offensive and even I will admit that I don't generally care for term, but Lois was one helluva classy broad. She will be sadly missed.
Thanks for sharing it.
Lois Maxwell's Moneypenny represented the only real home that James Bond ever had.
Before Bond went to see the Old Man he would share some flirtatious moments with an old friend who, as someone once pointed out, is "the only woman Bond won't sleep with."
When Bond tossed his hat on the rack it was more than a stylistic touch, it was a mark of turf.
Lois Maxwell, always warm, ever charming, was the girl next-door, whose destiny was not to become another Bond conquest. No, she became 007's closest female friend and ally.
There is not a Bond-fan alive who grew up on the series who did not feel a sense of joy whenever Moneypenny appeared. She represented an unbroken continuity throught the years.
The Bonds would come and go...as did her beloved M...but Lois Maxwell was always on the job (secretly running MI6, as a matter of fact).
Whenever Bond greeted Moneypenny everything was just right in the Bond universe, for, you see, Moneypenny became a touchstone not just for Bond and the series, but for all of us as well.
Farewell to a lovely lady.
GOODBYE MONEYPENNY, NEVER FORGOTTEN.
You'll Be Sadly Missed.
Nobody DID It Better.
Let us hope that the next film is dedicated in memoriam to her.
As I stated in the off topic forum, I cannot read a Bond novel without picturing her in the role. I remember her from Lolita and an early episode of the Avengers in which she played the
villainous nurse opposite Honor Blackman's Cathy Gale and Patrick Macnee's John Steed. Always classy, elegant and intelligent, she made Fleming's creation come to life. She will be missed.
She really got around acting wise from radio, to television to films, not many performers can say that about themselves. I would have loved to have meet her, she sounded like quite a person.
RIP Los Maxwell
She'll be missed.
I concur, and no offencee taken.
R.I.P.