Editing Claudine Auger (section)

== Career ==
Born in [[Paris]], France, Auger began her career as a [[Model (person)|model]] and earned the title of [[Miss France Monde]] 1958 (the French representative to the [[Miss World]] beauty pageant) and went on to finish as the first runner-up in the [[Miss World 1958|1958 Miss World]] contest.<ref name="bbc">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50864159 |title=Claudine Auger: French actress known for James Bond role dies aged 78 |work=BBC News |date=20 December 2019 |access-date=19 November 2024}}</ref><ref name="herald">{{cite web |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/james-bond-s-first-french-love-interest-played-domino-in-thunderball-20191223-p53mci.html |title=James Bond’s first French love interest played Domino in Thunderball |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=23 December 2019 |access-date=19 November 2024}}</ref> [[Jean Cocteau]] cast Auger in an uncredited role as a tall [[ballerina]] in ''[[Testament of Orpheus]]'' (1960). When she was 18, she married the 43-year-old writer-director [[Pierre Gaspard-Huit]], and he cast her in several films, including ''[[Le Masque de fer]]'' (1962) and ''[[Kali Yug: Goddess of Vengeance]]'' (1963).<ref>{{cite book |first1=Tom |last1=Lisanti |first2=Louis |last2=Paul |title=Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962–1973 |publisher=McFarland and Company |date=2002 |p=46}}</ref>

In 1965 she was cast in the 1965 [[James Bond]] film ''[[Thunderball (film)|Thunderball]]'', directed by [[Terence Young (director)|Terence Young]]. ''Thunderball'' launched Auger into a successful European movie career, but did little for her otherwise in the United States.<ref name="no boost">{{Cite news | title= Bond Was No Boost For Auger | url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-11-29-ca-16048-story.html | first= Roderick | last= Mann | date= 29 November 1986 | access-date= 21 July 2012 | work= Los Angeles Times | archive-date= 7 December 2010 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101207061511/http://articles.latimes.com/1986-11-29/entertainment/ca-16048_1_claudine-auger | url-status= live }}</ref> Though she performed in the movie, her French accent was considered too strong and her voice was dubbed by another actress.<ref name="herald"/> She did, however, star in a [[Danny Thomas]] special called ''The Road to Lebanon'' with [[Bing Crosby]], which was shown on [[NBC]] on 20 April 1966.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Pairpoint|first1=Lionel|title=The Chronological Bing Crosby on Television|url=http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/BingTV.htm|website=BING magazine|access-date=22 February 2016|archive-date=28 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628030554/http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/BingTV.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Le dolci signore Claudine Auger Marco Guglielmi.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Auger with [[Marco Guglielmi]] in ''[[Anyone Can Play]]'' (1968)]]
In 1966 she co-starred in the [[World War II]] drama ''[[Triple Cross (1966 film)|Triple Cross]]'' with [[Yul Brynner]] and [[Christopher Plummer]], that reunited her with her James Bond director Terence Young.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/triple-cross-1967 |title=Triple Cross |work=RogerEbert.com |date=11 July 1967 |access-date=19 November 2024}}</ref> Auger co-starred with another [[Bond girl]], [[Ursula Andress]], in the Italian comedy ''[[Anyone Can Play]]'' (1968). She starred with two future Bond girls, [[Barbara Bouchet]] and [[Barbara Bach]], in ''[[Black Belly of the Tarantula]]'' (1971), a [[giallo]] mystery. She had major roles in films such as ''[[The Killing Game (1967 film)|The Killing Game]]'' in 1967,<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/2828/Claudine-Auger/biography |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020060100/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/2828/Claudine-Auger/biography |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 October 2012 |title=Claudine Auger |first=Hal |work=[[The New York Times]] |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2012 |last=Erickson }}</ref> ''[[Flic Story]]'' in 1972,<ref name="herald"/> and filmed scenes for ''[[The Eiger Sanction (film)|The Eiger Sanction]]'' (1975), only to have her entire performance cut from the movie.<ref name="no boost" />

On television, she made an appearance in 1972 on the [[CBS]] series ''[[Medical Center (TV series)|Medical Center]]''. In the 1980s Auger starred ''[[The Man Who Married a French Wife]]'' which was broadcast on the [[BBC]] and shown as part of the "Great Performances" series that was broadcast on [[PBS]] in the United States. She also appeared in the 1994 British television series ''[[Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series)|The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes]]''.<ref name="herald"/>