Pussy Galore (James Bond)

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James Bond character

Pussy Galore
Gender	Female
Role	Bond girl / Henchman
Affiliation	Auric Goldfinger (film) The Cement Mixers (novel)
Current status	Retired (film) Arrested (novel)
Portrayed by	Honor Blackman

Pussy Galore is a fictional character from the James Bond film and novel Goldfinger. In the film, she is played by Honor Blackman.

[edit] Film biography

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

In the film, Pussy Galore is Auric Goldfinger's personal pilot and commander of "Pussy Galore's Flying Circus". Her main objective in the film is to have her flying circus dispense an airborne nerve gas over Fort Knox so that Goldfinger and his communist Chinese allies can break into the U.S. gold bullion depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky and detonate a nuclear weapon.

Bond foils Goldfinger's plan by persuading her not to spray the nerve gas over Fort Knox, thus allowing the U.S. Army to close in around Goldfinger and stop his operation.

[edit] Novel biography

In the novel, Pussy Galore is the only woman in America that runs a gang. Initially a trapeze artist, her group of women, "Pussy Galore and her Abrocats" were unsuccessful and were later trained as cat burglars. Her group grew into a lesbian organization known as "The Cement Mixers." In fact, Galore is a lesbian until the end of the novel, at which point she falls in love with Bond.

Her group is enlisted by Goldfinger to aid in "Operation Grand Slam," an operation that, if successful, would rob the U.S. gold bullion depository at Fort Knox of fifteen billion in gold bullion.

After "Grand Slam" fails, she escapes with Bond after he kills Goldfinger and his henchman Oddjob.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Trivia

Pussy Galore's name is parodied in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery as Alotta Fagina.
Concerned about censors, the film's producers thought about changing Pussy Galore's name to "Kitty Galore". They kept the original name when British newspapers began to refer to Honor Blackman as "Pussy" in the lead up to production.
The typeface on the banner in Monty Python's Flying Circus is the same as in the banner of Pussy Galore's Flying Circus.
In the film Trainspotting, Sick Boy (who is a James Bond trivia expert) refers to her saying "Honor Blackman, a.k.a. "Pussy Galore". What a total fucking misnomer! I mean, I wouldn't touch her with yours. I'd sooner shag Col. Klebb."