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When Dr. No, the first film version of Ian Fleming's 007 spy novels, appeared in 1962, it introduced swinging superspy James Bond and the cartoonish sensuality of a world populated by a willing-and-able cast of sexually aggressive women -- which would include Miss October 1961 Jean Cannon, who appeared as a bikini-clad beachcomber in the third Bond feature, Goldfinger.
By 1967 the supercool spy himself was ripe for send-up: The Bond parody Casino Royale, featuring Miss May 1966 Dolly Read, brought an irreverent twist to the Bond saga. Woody Allen's 1966 What's Up, Tiger Lily? was another typically outrageous Sixties stunt, in which a Japanese superspy movie was given an irreverent translation and re-dubbed as a comedy. In keeping with the winking sexual shenanigans of the time, the film ends with a tongue-in-cheek striptease by Playmate China Lee. "I promised I'd put her in the film...somewhere" camps Allen after Lee has stripped down to her bare essentials.
One of the best examples of this new jocular approach to sex was Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Film critic Roger Ebert and nudie-cutie kingpin Russ Meyer conceived the outrageous spoof on morals and morality as "a camp sexploitation horror musical that ends with a quadruple ritual murder and a triple wedding." Beyond featured Sixties Playmates Cynthia Myers and Dolly Read as two thirds of the all-girl rock group the Carrie Nations (after the turn-of-the-century temperance leader) who find drug addiction, porn stars, gigolos, lesbians, Nazis and assorted other obstacles awaiting them in LA's fast-paced entertainment business.
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