Luciana Paluzzi
The actress Luciana Paluzzi was one of many voluptuous Italian brunettes groomed for world-wide fame in the aftermath of the tragic Gina Lollobrigida. On both sides of Atlantic in the '50s in such movies as Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) and Sea Fury (1958), the actress. Paluzzi was given a chance to make it American TV stardom in the leading role in the role of Simone Genet on the 1959 spying weekly Five Fingers. She met with the Bond producers in 1965 to talk about possibilities of being cast as the leading girl Domino Derval in Thunderball. The role was eventually given to former Miss France, Claudine Auger who was the director, Terence Young offered her the Villainy role Fiona Volpe - one of the few women on this planet able to resist the charms of Mr. Bond; perhaps as punishment for this, Fiona is killed on the dance floor by her friends, and James takes her body to a nearby table and says "Do you think it's okay if my companion sits down with this body? It's dead." Luciana Paluzzi's fame as a European actor was further extended with this box office blockbuster. The actress was part of films including Captain Nemo and the Underwater City, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Klansman and The Greek Tycoon.



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