While Loana may have been the most famous cave girl to visit the town, she wouldn't be the last. Just up the road in 1963 on the Bond stages at Pinewood studios in Buckinghamshire, Zora the catfighting gypsy girl was strutting her stuff on the set of From Russia with Love
Zora was played by the excellent Martine Beswick, the first woman to appear in 3 Bond movies, firstly in the opening credits of Dr No and then going on to play Paula Caplan in Thunderball. In '66 she was Nupondi, and would fight it out with Loana in maybe prehistoric man's first cat fight !
This famous fight may have been filmed in Borehamwood, as although most of principal shooting was on location in Spain the sets where built in borehamwood, and this scene looks to me like its on a set.
Martine returned to the 'wood in 1967 for Hammer Films Prehistoric Women (Slave Girls), this time in the staring role as Queen kari
I haven't seen this film (yet) but it looks excellent and i cant wait to see it. I'll be writing a lot more on Martine as she is for sure a legend of elstree studios and Borehamwood! If you want to see more pictures and read a little bit more about her ( and cave girls for that matter ) check out the excellent blog
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ending on a little bit of trivia - she came to town again in '65 for a small role in " such men are dangerous " and episode of Dangerman which was shot at MGM.
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