4. The Woman Painted Gold In Goldfinger Died Of Asphyxiation
Goldfinger directed by Guy Hamilton and released in 1964 is one of the most famous James Bond films ever released. It starred Sean Connery and Honor Blackman and features a famous scene in which one of Bond's many lovers (in this instance, a woman named Jill Masterson played by Shirley Eaton) is killed through epidermal suffocation (her entire body is painted gold). Shortly after the film's release, a lie was circulated claiming that the actress Shirley Eaton had only portrayed the character while living, and that the actress who was painted gold in order to portray the dead Jill actually died of the same method of suffocation that killed the character. You hear people talking about allowing the skin to breathe all of the time, so it's not surprising that this suggestion grew in popularity during the 60s, especially when there was no internet to quickly debunk that we genuinely don't breathe in any capacity through the skin. In actuality, it was Eaton who filmed the scene, and she was completely fine throughout (though there were doctors standing by, just in case).
