Miss Moneypenny is the private secretary of M, the head of MI6. ( May 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. The BBC has used the term 'Fleming's Miss Moneypenny' when referring to Jean Frampton, who typed out the manuscripts for Fleming's later works and made plot suggestions to him, even though the two never met. Other candidates for Moneypenny's inspiration include Vera Atkins of Special Operations Executive Paddy Ridsdale, a Naval Intelligence secretary Joan Bright Astley, whom Fleming dated during World War II, and who was noted for giving a warm and friendly reception to senior officers who visited her office to view confidential papers and Joan Howe, Fleming's red-haired secretary at The Times who had typed the manuscript of Casino Royale. In Ian Fleming's first draft of Casino Royale (1953), Moneypenny's name was originally 'Miss 'Petty' Pettaval', which was taken from Kathleen Pettigrew, the personal assistant to MI6 director Stewart Menzies. According to the film You Only Live Twice (1967), she holds the rank of second officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service. On that note, she is not always considered to be a Bond girl, having never had anything more than a professional relationship with Bond.Īlthough not given a first name by Fleming, the character was given the name Jane in the spin-off book series, The Moneypenny Diaries in the films, she received the first name of Eve in Skyfall (2012), which is set in the new continuity opened by 2006's Casino Royale, where the character spent time as a field officer before becoming secretary to M. She is secretary to M, who is Bond's superior officer and head of the British Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6).Īlthough she has a small part in most of the films, it is always highlighted by the underscored romantic tension between her and Bond (something that is virtually non-existent in Ian Fleming's novels, although it is somewhat more apparent in the Bond novels by John Gardner and Raymond Benson). Miss Moneypenny, later assigned the first names of Eve or Jane, is a fictional character in the James Bond novels and films.

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