FANS of the James Bond films mourned the death of Honor Blackman earlier this month - but did you know that the actress, best known for her role as Pussy Galore, appeared at the Brewhouse Theatre in Taunton?

Blackman, who starred alongside Sean Connery in Goldfinger in 1964, brought her one-woman show 'Dishonourable Ladies' to Taunton, on August 6 and 7, 1993.

In the show, "Honor explores the world of vamps and sirens through the centuries, from Delilah to Dietrich, Medusa to Madonna".

You might have thought that the County Gazette's reviewer, Rod Hancox, would be quite starstruck... but apparently not.

The rather lukewarm review from August 1993 read: "Blonde, lined, bosomy and elegant, Honor Blackman graced the stage at Taunton's Brewhouse Theatre last week - and needed all her experience to enliven some rather tame material (surprisingly tame when you consider the subject matter).

"Her one-woman show, 'Dishonourable Ladies', set out to explore the world of vamps, sirens and black widows through the ages... and yet remained decidedly unsexy.

"Instead the accent was on humour, with Honor at her best delivering a clutch of witty songs - the strongest an updated version of 'Let's Do It' (which she performed here for the first time) and 'Keeping My Love Alive' (both still terribly tame though).

"Honor gave us some classical acting and some melodrama, some French and some German, and yes, she knows how to present her material alright, but what was the point of it all?

"We saw Predatory Woman plotting man's downfall in the Garden of Eden and we got an eyeful of Lily Langtree, Marlene Dietrich and Mae West... yet strangely Marilyn Monroe and Madonna warranted merely a namecheck."