Lois Maxwell the character as the producers felt it important to incorporate the regular character and actress Lois Maxwell. Maxwell and Connery filmed their lines separately and were not present together for the short scene However, she stayed on as Moneypenny when her former classmate, Roger Moore, assumed the role of 007 in "Live and Let Die" (1973). She reprised her character, weeping for the death of Bond, in a short scene with Lee in the French comedy "Bons baisers de Hong Kong" (1975). During the filming of "A View to a Kill" (1985), her final appearance as Moneypenny, producer Cubby Broccoli
The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel Bond, there was some confusion and even deception prior to release as to whether the book was actually authorised by them. The trilogy had originally been touted as the secret journal of a "real" Miss Moneypenny and that James Bond was a possible pseudonym for a genuine intelligence officer, the idea of which was perhaps influenced similarly to John Pearson's 1973 authorised biography of James Bond. "" was based on the obituary in Ian Fleming's "You Only Live Twice" in which Fleming hints that Bond is perhaps a real man. An investigation by "The Sunday Times" into whether or not