Barbara Bach 75 -- August 27, 2022

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Actress Barbara Bach was born 75 years ago today, on 27-August-1947. I was impressed when I saw her in The Spy Who Loved Me with Roger Moore. She married Ringo Starr.

Lois Chiles 75 -- April 15, 2022

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Actress Lois Chiles was born 75 years ago today on April 15, 1947. She was good as Jordan Baker in the 1974 The Great Gatsby. The Bond movie Moonraker was not so good, and she received grief for playing a character named Holly Goodhead who was supposed to be a "space scientist."

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Sir Roger Moore, RIP -- May 24, 2017

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I was sad to learn of the death of Sir Roger Moore.  I enjoyed almost everything I saw him in.  I was very happy to read that he didn't like guns. 

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I didn't see The Saint when it was on its first run.  The first movie I saw him in was Live and Let Die at the Alexandria.  This was the first James Bond movie I saw in a theater.  I had seen Goldfinger on television, but I wasn't prejudiced in favor of Sean Connery.  It was interesting to see a different person play the part. 

I think the only other Moore/Bond movies I saw in the theater were The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker. 

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 In 1976, Roger Moore played Sherlock Holmes in a television movie, Sherlock Holmes in New York.  Patrick Macnee played Doctor Watson.  I made sure to watch it. 

He did a lot of work for UNICEF and was knighted for it.  Well deserved.