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Linda Christian , the curvy Mexican movie star who is best remembered as the original Bond girl in a 1954 small-screen adaptation of Ian Fleming 's Casino Royale , died in Palm Desert, Calif.

The first screen adaptation of a James Bond book was telecast on October 21, 1954 on the anthology series, Climax! . Barry Nelson played CIA agent Jimmy Bond.

After the fiasco of their premier episode - a lavish live production of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye during which a corpse unwittingly got up and walked off stage on camera - CBS's Climax! Mystery Theater was looking to adapt something less high-profile. Say, the debut spy thriller by a struggling British journalist willing to let the rights ...

Casino Royale : one novel, two films. And the two films could not be more different.

Dear David: Back in the mid-1960s when the TV movie was first introduced, I remember seeing one about a couple who, I think, were secret agents living as suburbanites.