Happy 45th Anniversary to Diamonds Are Forever which had it's first premiere today. DAF was the seventh James Bond film and saw the return of Sean Connery to the role after he originally left following 1967's You Only Live Twice and was replaced by George Lazenby for 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. This was Connery's sixth Bond and his final "official" one with Eon Productions though he did a seventh Bond with the "unofficial" (not done by Eon Productions) 1983 Thunderball remake Never Say Never Again. The movie saw Shirley Bassey return to sing the theme song making her he first singer to do more than one theme (she previously did 1964's Goldfinger and would return for Moonraker in 1979) and she's the only one to do so as of 2016. The movie was also the final official time Bond's nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld and his group S.P.E.C.T.R.E. appeared in a Bond movie until last years Spectre (The Wheelchair Villain at the beginning of For Your Eyes Only was clearly supposed to be Blofeld but not named due to legal reasons).
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