Lois Maxwell

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Lois Ruth Maxwell (born Hooker) was a Canadian actress best known for her role as Miss Moneypenny in all 14 Eon-produced James Bond films (1962–1985).

She was the first actress to play the role.

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(1962) No (1962); From Russia with Love (1963), Thunderball (1964), You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Diamonds Are Forever (1974), Only Live (1971), The Spy Who Loved Me (1980), The Spy With A Kill (1979), A View To A Kill (1985) In 1969), The Spy With Love (1967), Sherriff (1972), The Spy With A Kiss (1974), From Rome with Love (1979) (1968)

She did not appear in the 1954 and 1967 versions of Casino Royale nor in the 1983 version of Thunderball, Never Say Never Again, because the intention was not Eon's, even though she did appear in the spoof O.K. Connery. She began her film career in the late 1940s and received the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her role in That Hagen Girl (1947).

Maxwell became dissatisfied and relocated to Italy, where she appeared in film from 1951 to 1955.

She immigrated to the United Kingdom after her marriage, where she appeared in numerous television shows. As Maxwell's career came to an end, she lived in Canada, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

She was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2001 and moved to Western Australia, where she and her son survived until she died in 2005 at the age of 80.

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Life and career

Maxwell was born in Kitchener, Ontario, to Ruth Adelaide Wells, a nurse, and William Victor Hooker, a teacher. Maxwell was born in Toronto and attended Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute. On Bigwin Inn, Canada's biggest and most luxurious summer resort, she gained her first job as a waitress.

She ran away from home, aged 15, to join the Canadian Women's Army Corps, a unit that was established to free men from service during World War II. Secretaries, vehicle operators, and mechanics of the CWAC served every conceivable noncombat function. Maxwell was quickly adopted as part of the Army Show in Canada. She was sent to the United Kingdom later as part of the Canadian Auxiliary Services Entertainment Unit, where she performed music and dance numbers to entertain the troops, often alongside Canadian comedians Wayne and Shuster.

As the company entered London, Maxwell's true age was discovered. She was released after being repatriated to Canada; she continued to enroll at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she became friends with fellow student Roger Moore. Moore appeared in the James Bond film series from Live and Let Die (1973) to A View to a Kill (1985).

Maxwell was nominated for the role in the Shirley Temple drama That Hagen Girl (1947) in Hollywood at the age of 20. In 1949, she appeared in a later popular Life magazine photo album layout, in which she posed alongside Marilyn Monroe, Cathy Downs, Suzanne Dalbert, Enrica Soma, Laurette Luez, and Jane Nigh. She changed her surname from Hooker to Maxwell at this time, a name stolen from a ballet dancer friend. The rest of her family used this name.

The bulk of Maxwell's film consisted of minor roles in B films. Tiring of Hollywood, she returned to Europe and spent five years in Rome (1950–1955). She made a number of films and became an amateur racer at one point. Maxwell appeared in several scenes with the then unknown Sophia Loren in one of her Italian films.

She met her future husband, television executive Peter Marriott, while visiting Paris. They married in 1957 and then moved to London, where their daughter Melinda and son Christian were both born (in 1958 and 1959). In the 1959 episode "Position of Trust," Maxwell appeared alongside Patrick McGoohan as his accomplice.

Maxwell appeared in numerous television series and films outside of the Bond series in both the United Kingdom and Canada during the 1960s. She appeared in two episodes of The Saint and later in a single episode of The Persuaders. In both cases, she appeared alongside Roger Moore. She was the voice of Atlanta for the Supermarion science-fiction children's series Stingray, and she appeared on CBC's Adventures in Rainbow Country from 1970 to 1971.

In Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962), Maxwell appeared as a nurse for a brief period. Maxwell played a machine gun-firing nurse in the series The Avengers (episode "The Little Wonders"), which premiered on January 11, 1964. She appeared in an episode of The Baron ("Something for a Rainy Day") as an insurance investigator in 1965.

Maxwell lobbied for a part in the James Bond film Dr. No (1962). For her husband, he suffered a heart attack and they needed the money. Terence Young, a director who had previously turned her down on the grounds of "apparently smelling of soap," offered Miss Moneypenny or Bond's girlfriend Sylvia Trench either Miss Moneypenny or Bond's girlfriend, but she was dissatisfied with the prospect of a revealing scene depicted in the screenplay. M's secretary was supposed to do just two days' service per day; Maxwell was provided with her own clothes for the filming.

Maxwell appeared in Operation Kid Brother in 1967, alongside Bernard Lee (who played M) and Sean Connery's brother Neil. Welcome to Japan, Mr. nyan portrayed Moneypenny in a made-for-TV film special last year. Bond, in which she co-starred with Kate O'Mara and Desmond Llewelyn, was a film in which she costarred.

After Maxwell ordered that Diamonds Are Forever (1971), the position of Moneypenny was practically recast. However, the producers felt it was important to keep the regular look, and it was eventually decided during production that Bond was given his travel papers at the Port of Dover. Maxwell and Sean Connery shot their lines separately, and they were not able to appear together for the short scene. Maxwell's undercover policewoman's cap disguises her hair, which had already been dyed in preparation for another part.

Maxwell stayed on as Moneypenny after her former classmate Roger Moore took over as the role of 007 in Live and Let Die (1973). In a short scene with Bernard Lee in the French comedy Bons baisers de Hong Kong (1975), she reprised her role, mourning for Bond's death.

During the filming of A View to a Kill (1985), her last appearance as Moneypenny, producer Albert R. Broccoli, told her that they were the only cast or crew members from Dr. No. who had not yet departed the film. Moneypenny was supposed to be killed off, but Broccoli recast the role instead.

Maxwell's Moneypenny was seen as a "anchor" and her flirtatious friendship with Bond gave the films with dramatic authenticity and humanism, according to author Tom Lisanti; for Moneypenny, Bond was "unattainable," freeing the characters to make outrageous sexual double entendres.

Maxwell's husband died in 1973 after never fully recovered from his heart attack in the 1960s. Maxwell moved to Canada later, settling in Fort Erie, Ontario, where she lived on Oakes Drive. She spent her summers at a cottage outside Espanola, Ontario, where she wrote a weekly column for the Toronto Sun under the pseudonym "Miss Moneypenny" from 1979 to 1994, and then moved to become a businesswoman working in the textile industry. Melinda, her daughter's name, returned to the United Kingdom in 1994, retiring to a cottage in Frome, Somerset. The Frome Society of Local Study has placed a plaque on her house.

Maxwell died in Perth, Western Australia, following bowel cancer surgery in 2001. Christian's family is her son. She stayed there, writing about her autobiography, until she died at Fremantle Hospital on September 29.

Sir Roger Moore said about his friend's death on BBC Radio 5 Live, "It's rather a surprise." She was always fun and was a joy to be with, but they didn't want her to continue in the Timothy Dalton films, which was a sad shame. I think it was a huge surprise to her that she had not been invited to play M. She would have been a wonderful M."

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