Life Magazine featuring James Bond: Museum Object and Cultural History
Life Magazine featuring James Bond: date made: 1964-11-06. Associated Name: Eaton, Shirley. maker: Life Magazine.
The object in the museum catalogue
Life magazine from 6 November 1964, featuring a gold-gilded Shirley Eaton on the cover. Eaton played Bond Girl Jill Masterson in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger, also starring Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, and Gert Fröbe. Goldfinger is the third in the James Bond series and according to this Life magazine cover, is the “funniest and money-makingest of the 007 movies.”
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1964-11-06
- Associated Name: Eaton, Shirley
- maker: Life Magazine
- Object Name: magazine
- Object Type: Photomechanical Relief Processes
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 34.7 cm x 26.6 cm; 13 21/32 in x 10 15/32 in
- place made: United States: Illinois, Chicago
- Subject: Movie
- Subject: Entertainment, Film
- Subject: James Bond
- Subject: Magazines
- ID Number: 2013.3095.04
- nonaccession number: 2013.3095
- catalog number: 2013.3095.04
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of American History through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed.
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