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
Goldfinger (film) Court, producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman turned to "Goldfinger" as the third Bond film. "Goldfinger" had what was then considered a large budget of $3 million (US$ million in dollars), the equivalent of the budgets of "Dr. No" and "From Russia with Love" combined, and was the first Bond film classified as a box-office blockbuster. "Goldfinger" was chosen with the American cinema market in mind, as the previous films had concentrated on the Caribbean and Europe. Terence Young, who directed the previous two films, chose to film "The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders" instead, after a pay dispute