Shirley Eaton the Crazy Gang in "Life Is a Circus" (1958) and with Mickey Spillane in "The Girl Hunters" (1963) in which Spillane played his own literary creation Mike Hammer. She appeared in several early "Carry On" films. She made three episodes of "The Saint," starring Roger Moore, including the pilot. Eaton participated in the British heat of the 1957 Eurovision Song Contest. But Eaton achieved the most recognition for her performance as Jill Masterson in the 1964 James Bond film "Goldfinger," gaining more recognition than actress Honor Blackman, who played famed Bond Girl Pussy Galore. She appeared on the cover of
Pussy Galore to force the pilot to fly him to Cuba. However, Bond defeats Goldfinger, who is blown out the window at high altitude, thus suffering what, in the novel, had been Oddjob's fate. Bond then saves Galore from the crashing plane: they both bail out (this is shown only on radar), land safely in an unidentified tropical region, and make love under their parachute. Pussy ranked second in a poll of favourite Bond girls by "Entertainment Weekly" in 2007, beaten only by Ursula Andress' character Honey Rider. Yahoo! Movies had her name included in the 2012 list of the best Bond