Luciana Paluzzi
The actress Luciana Paluzzi was one of several sexy Italian brunettes who were destined for fame on the international stage following the death of the Gina Lollobrigida. Working both sides of the Atlantic throughout the 1950s in such films 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 part in the role of Simone Genet on the 1959 spy-weekly Five Fingers. When she was in 1965, she was invited by Bond producers to discuss the possibility of being considered for the lead girl Domino Derval in Thunderball. Terence Young, the director was willing to offer Fiona Volpe the role as the villain. She was one of the only a handful of women who could resist Mr. Bond and, perhaps as punishment for this, Fiona is killed on the dance floor by her own colleagues, after which James places her body on the table nearby and tells her "Do you think it's okay if my colleague sits on this one? It's not her fault. The box-office smash enabled Luciana Paluzzi to extend her European star career to her 70s, in both the US as well as Europe as well, in films that included Captain Nemo And The Underwater City (1969), The Six Million Dollar Man (1973), The Klansman (1974) and The Greek Tycoon



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