Shirley Eaton underwent two hours of make-up application which involved being gold-painted to become a gold painted corpse. Author Ian Fleming had borrowed the notion of someone being suffocated to death by being covered in gold paint from the horror movie, Bedlam (1946). However, "skin suffocation" by being coated in gold is a complication that, contrary to popular belief, has no basis in fact. The belief depends on the incorrect supposition that respiration occurs, at least in part, through the skin, a fallacy that has been discredited in scientific circles since the Renaissance. Despite periodic debunking in the popular media (especially noteworthy is a 1978 column of the syndicated newspaper feature, "The Straight Dope", and a 2003 episode of the Discovery Channel series, MythBusters (2003)), a widespread belief in the myth of "skin suffocation" still exists, further bolstered by urban legends that Eaton had actually died on set from skin asphyxiation. In fact, careful precautions were taken during the shoot. A doctor was on set at all times, and Easton's stomach was left bare to allow for "breathing". Her shots lasted less than five minutes in the finished movie and the filming of them was shot quickly, wrapped in a morning's work. Then she was scrubbed down by the wardrobe mistress and the make-up girl, and sweated off the remaining gold in several Turkish baths. Eaton is still very much alive as of March 2019. Although skin suffocation is impossible, due to the fact that the skin is the main surface for temperature exchange through its pores, one can die from extreme overheating if the pores of the skin are covered for too long.