A sad day. Diana Rigg has passed away, too young, at age 82. She first came to my attention back in the Sixties during her star turn as Mrs. Emma Peel in the hilarious Avengers. She never gave a bad performance, and was always the epitome of effortless grace and urbanity. Faith came to her over the years and she became a Christian. Heaven calls Mrs. Peel, and the game is doubtless afoot.
Since boyhood, I always loved Diana Rigg – my fantasy girl, I guess. Beautiful, intelligent, poised, graceful, elegant, well-spoken. Always immaculately dressed whether in black leather or evening gown. Fearless, courageous and strong too. Able to give the bad guys exactly what they deserved. And the Avengers was a favorite of mine precisely because of her. Honor Blackman just wasn’t attractive for me, whether first in the Avengers or later in Goldfinger. But Diana Rigg always was drop dead gorgeous right from the start.
She was wonderful in “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, one of my favorite JB movies. (A Christmas movie BTW).
Sadly, I’ve never seen The Avengers. Many of my slightly older friends were big fans. Hopefully one day.
Broadcast in the early evening in our area – reruns of episodes produced during the previous three years. After dinner viewing on the old black and white kept in the breakfast nook. More than 50 years ago.
What gets you seeing them again is her elegance and reserve and how deftly the writers, directors, and actors handled the interplay between the characters. Long gone. Sigh.
She was such a classic beauty. So different from the trash we see today.
My favourite Bond Girl, in what should have been the greatest Bond film, ever.
Sadly, Sean Connery retired from the role.
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She was such a classic beauty. So different from the trash we see today.
I doubt she ever had ‘work done’ or that her hair was anything but it’s natural color. It was washed, trimmed, and combed and that was it. If you look at photo surveys of her taken in her prime, you can see she was generally resistant to putting too much on display.
Gentlemen.
There is no equal to a modest women. She exudes confidence, grace and beauty without effort.
That’s how I remember her.
Appealing without trying to be.
God have mercy on her soul.
Agree that she wasn’t one to show too much skin.
But some of those catsuits? And a figure like hers?
Who needs skin?
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I loved the Avengers, and she was the best part. RIP
Oh , she was a class act, someone to follow. So desirable in our youth. She played a role in Game of Thrones but I felt she was miscast. To me she will always be the best Bond girl and Mrs Emma Peel.
She was my first boyhood crush and luckily I later I was lucky enough to marry a woman with the same class, beauty and she had quite a mind too.
She also played a nun beautifully in “This House of Brede” .
Later on she was the hostess of Masterpiece Mystery. Her delivery and understated elegance
really set the tone. Succeeding female hosts couldn’t match her.