Honey Ryder entrance in the film, emerging from the ocean in a white bikini with two large seashells, while the sun shines on her wet blonde hair, is considered a classic James Bond moment. In the corresponding scene of the original novel, the character Honeychile Rider does not wear a bikini. As an homage, Halle Berry performed a similar scene in an orange bikini in the 20th James Bond film, "Die Another Day". Andress referred to the "Dr. No" bikini as the "secret of her success". Ursula Andress was later mentioned by name in the novel "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", and
James Bond (literary character) James Bond was created by 20th Century author and mentor to Fleming, Phyllis Bottome in her 1946 novel, "The Lifeline". Distinct similarities between the protagonist in "The Lifeline", Mark Chalmers and Bond have been highlighted by spy writer, Nigel West. Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide "Birds of the West Indies"; Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that "It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and