Jumping in late as I am still recovering from my holiday weekend from hell.
This is what Ian Fleming says about Bond.
In
Casino Royale Vesper Lynd remarks, "Bond reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless."
Likewise, in
Moonraker, Special Branch Officer Gala Brand thinks that Bond is "certainly good-looking ... Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way. That black hair falling down over the right eyebrow. Much the same bones. But there was something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold."
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the composer, singer and actor, Hoagy Carmichael here are a couple of pics.
If anything Timothy Dalton's looks come the closest to Carmichael's, I think.
Bit of Bond Trivia. Did you know that the Cubby Broccoli's first choice to replace Sean Connery as Bond was Dalton but he was rejected in end for being too young and they rolled the dice with Lazenby who was a model and not an actor at the time.
It is a shame they came up craps because
On Her Majesty's Secret Service would likely have been the best Bond film ever if any other of the Bonds had been in it, it certainly had the best supporting cast. Telly Savalas, Diana Rigg and a song by Louis Armstrong and as it is most people have never seen it.
Not that anyone would care but I actually met Lazenby, at Dragon Con.
More Bond Trivia: Fleming hated Connery as Bond at first. But warmed up to him to the point that he mentions that Bond is a Scot in very last short story he wrote before his death.