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Shirley Eaton (born January 12 1937) was a
glamorous blonde actress who appeared in many
British black and white comedies in the fifties
and onwards.

She was born in London.  Throughout her career,
she has appeared with many of the main British
male comedy stars from the period including Jimmy
Edwards, Max Bygraves, Bob Monkhouse and Arthur
Askey. Her female co-stars included Peggy Mount,
Thora Hird and Dora Bryan among others. In any
British film featuring comedy actors like Kenneth
Connor she's liable to turn up as the glamorous
love interest. 

Early roles include Three Men In A Boat (1956) and
Date with Disaster (1957), starring with American
Tom Drake. She also worked with The Crazy Gang in
Life Is a Circus (1958). Later she starred in an
entertaining version of Ten Little Indians (1965),
co-starring American singer and actor Fabian
(entertainer)|Fabian. She also appeared in several
early Carry On films, but did little TV work. 

However, undoubtedly Eaton's most famous role was
that of Jill Masterson in the 1964 James Bond film
Goldfinger. Her character's demise, being painted
head to toe in gold paint and suffering "skin
suffocation", became an iconic image of the film
and inadvertantly lead to the creation of an urban
legend concerning both the method of death and the
actress' own fate. Ms. Eaton, very much alive,
later appeared in a 2003 episode of the TV
documentary series Mythbusters to help debunk the
legend.

==External links==
*imdb name|id=0247881|name=Shirley Eaton
*http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/goldfing.htm
Snopes.com article concerning Goldfinger urban
legend