{"id":3921,"date":"2016-09-26T11:46:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T11:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=3921"},"modified":"2016-09-26T11:46:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T11:46:38","slug":"happy-belated-birthday-diane-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/26\/happy-belated-birthday-diane-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Belated Birthday Diane Bond!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/adiane.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3922\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3922\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/adiane-300x225.gif\" alt=\"adiane\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Diane Bond was a real looker with long straight auburn hair, green eyes, and a distinctive look that set her apart from the young actresses of the day. The fact that she was extremely athletic and worked as a stunt woman also made her an atypical starlet. A shapely beauty (the press book for <em>A Swingin\u2019 Summer<\/em> extolled her measurements as being \u201c36-23-36\u201d), Bond was bikini-clad in practically all her film appearances from <em>Pajama Party<\/em> with Annette Funicello, to <em>Tickle Me<\/em> with Elvis Presley, <em>to A Swingin\u2019 Summer<\/em> as \u201cThe Girl in the Pink Polka Dot Bikini.\u201d However, her most memorable movie was the spy spoof <em>In Like Flint<\/em> playing one of the three shapely beauties (bikini-clad, of course) who work for super cool spy Derek Flint (James Coburn). Bond didn\u2019t take advantage of the movie\u2019s success and moved to Rome, ala Mimsy Farmer, where she made a few films including <em>Barbarella\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>House of a 1,000 Dolls <\/em>with Vincent Price.<\/p>\n<p>Read my interview with Diane Bond in my upcoming BearManor Media book <em>Talking Sixties Drive-in Movies<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"In Like Flint (1967) Trailer\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y1Bxoar17FY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diane Bond was a real looker with long straight auburn hair, green eyes, and a distinctive look that set her apart from the young actresses of the day. The fact that she was extremely athletic and worked as a stunt woman also made her an atypical starlet. A shapely beauty (the press book for A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}