Bond girl cast in "Tomorrow Never Dies". A few years after playing a Bond girl, she became one of the most highly paid actresses on television, starring in "Desperate Housewives". Jane Seymour was an unknown when she was cast in "Live and Let Die" (the opening credits read "Introducing Jane Seymour"), later won an Emmy Award for playing Maria Callas in a TV movie and then became a household name playing the title role in her TV series "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman". Kim Basinger had perhaps the most successful post-Bond career. After her break-out role in "Never Say Never Again", Basinger went
Nelson S. Bond his writing career, opening his own agency in 1959. He later became a noted antiquarian bookseller. Bond retired from writing in the late 1950s. After encouragement from fans and professionals, notably Harlan Ellison, he published a new story in 1995. Bond had an extensive correspondence with James Branch Cabell and after Cabell's death was his literary executor for a while. In 1998 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made Bond an Author Emeritus. In 2002 Bond donated his personal papers to the Marshall University library, which created a replica of his home office. Bond died of complications from