OUR JULIE

Consider, for a moment, life in Scandinavia in the fifties and sixties. We can’t say for sure, but it was probably about as jolly as a Jeremy Corbyn speech on renationalisation. And it might, therefore, account for the mid-century wave of beautiful Nordic women who left frost-licked homes to roll the dice on their cheekbones and icy allure in the British film industry.

Julie Ege was once such example. In fact, Ege was so prototypical that in 1969’s James Bond vehicle , she is credited only as ‘the Scandinavian girl’. Her story began in the Norwegian town of Sandnes