#Aliza Gur

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From Russia with Love

Fight scene between the gypsy girls Zora & Vida (played by Martine Beswick and Aliza Gur, respectively).

The picture is signed by Aliza Gur, “Vida”

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From Russia with Love, Italian lobby card (fotobusta), re-release 1970’s

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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE 1963

Terence Young directs Aliza Gur and Martine Beswick

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Tarzan and the Lost Boy (1968)

Director: Robert Gordon Starring: Mike Henry, Rafer Johnson, Aliza Gur A reporter and her fiance are conducting a search in the jungle for a wild boy, the lost son of a downed geologist. Allow me a moment to wipe the drool from my mouth, what with Mike Henry being such a delicious piece of prime beef! Even if the film was no good, it would still have been worth the watch. I could easily pause…

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Martine Beswick, Aliza Gur / production still from Terence Young’s From Russia With Love (1963)

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Aliza Gur “Kill a Dragon” 1967, de Michael D. Moore.

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(via JHALAL DRUT: Kill a Dragon - Trafic dans la terreur (1967))

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From Russia with Love (1963)

Director - Terence Young, Cinematography - Ted Moore

"Blood is the best security in this business."

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From Russia with Love (1963)

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From Russia With Love | dir. Terence Young, 1963

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From Russia with Love

Fight scene between the gypsy girls Zora & Vida (played by Martine Beswick and Aliza Gur, respectively).

The picture is signed by both Aliza Gur and Martine Beswick.

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Happy Birthday Martine Beswicke!

Martine Beswicke (born 26 September 1941) is an English-Jamaican actress and model perhaps best known for her roles in two James Bond films, From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965), who went on to appear in several other notable films in the 1960s. In 2019, she was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards' Monster Kid Hall of Fame.

Beswicke is best known for her two appearances in the James Bond film series. Although she auditioned for the first Bond film Dr. No (1962), she was cast in the second film From Russia with Love (1963) as the fiery gypsy girl, Zora. She engaged in a "catfight" scene with her rival Vida (played by former Miss Israel Aliza Gur). Beswicke later stated that there was as much bad feeling with Gur offscreen as well as on, with the film's director, Terence Young, encouraging Beswicke to get rough with Gur.

"I was a very nice girl but Aliza was a cow. We had terrible clashes and I was disgusted with her. I had a lot of anger inside of me so that [fight] scene was a perfect way to work it out. We rehearsed the fight for three weeks but when we shot it, Aliza was really fighting. Everyone encouraged me to fight back, so I did. We got into a real scrapping match." — Martine Beswicke[9]

Beswicke then appeared as the ill-fated Paula Caplan in Thunderball (1965). She had been away from the Caribbean so long that she was required to sunbathe constantly for two weeks before filming, to look like a local.

Beswicke went on to appear in One Million Years B.C. (1966) opposite Raquel Welch, with whom she also engaged in a catfight. She played Adelita in the well-regarded Spaghetti Western, A Bullet for the General (1966) opposite Klaus Kinski and Gian Maria Volonté and played a villainous role in the exploitation thriller The Penthouse (1967). She then appeared in various Hammer Films, most notably Prehistoric Women (1967) (aka Slave Girls) and the gender-bending horror Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971), in which she played the titular villainess.

She had a supporting role in the Italian sex comedy The Last Italian Tango (1973). She then starred as the Queen of Evil in Oliver Stone's 1974 directorial debut Seizure. In the 1970s, Beswicke moved to Hollywood and regularly appeared on both the big and small screens. She made numerous guest appearances on television series, including Sledge Hammer!, Fantasy Island, The Fall Guy, Mannix, The Six Million Dollar Man and Falcon Crest. In 1980, she played the lead role in the comedy film The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood.

Beswicke's career was active well into the 1990s. Since then, she has mainly participated in film documentaries, providing commentary and relating her experiences on the many films in which she has appeared. She owned a removals business in London, but is now semiretired except for her guest appearances at international film conventions.

After a 24 year absence from the screen, Beswicke came out of retirement in 2018 to appear in House of the Gorgon opposite fellow Hammer film actors Caroline Munro, Veronica Carlson, and Christopher Neame.

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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE 1963

Zora (Martine Beswick) and Vida (Aliza Gur)

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Aliza Gur and Martine Beswick in a Gypsy fight scene.

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Aliza Gur (Ramat Gan, Israel, 1/04/1944).