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[H.M.Servant]

I never got over the fact that Brigitte Bardot didn't play a Bond girl

[DLibrasnow]

Wasn't she - along with Julie Christie and Racquel Welch - one of the actresses considered for TB?

[Triton]

According to the Her Majesty's Secret Servant web site in the article "On Her Majesty's Secret Service: A Missed Opportunity", Brigette Bardot was considered for the role of Tracy in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

It's also interesting that Ian Fleming's description of Dominetta "Domino" Vitali from the novel Thunderball mentions Brigette Bardot:

She had a gay, to-hell-with-you face that, Bond thought, would become animal in passion. In bed she would fight and bite and then suddenly melt into hot surrender. He could almost see the proud, sensual mouth bare away from the even white teeth in a snarl of desire and then, afterward, soften into a half-pout of loving slavery. In profile the eyes were soft charcoal slits ... fierce and direct with a golden flicker in the dark brown that held much the same message as the mouth ... a soft, muddled Brigitte Bardot haircut ... the sunburn was not overdone ... her breasts, high riding and deeply V-ed ... the general impression, Bond decided, was of a willful, high-tempered, sensual girl -- a beautiful Arab mare who would only allow herself to be ridden by a horseman with steel thighs and velvet hands.

[DLibrasnow]

Originally posted by Triton

It's also interesting that Ian Fleming's description of Dominetta "Domino" Vitali from the novel Thunderball mentions Brigette Bardot:

That is interesting....perhaps that is why the producers thought about her for the role.