Luciana Paluzzi

The actress Luciana Paluzzi was one of many voluptuous Italian brunettes destined to fame on the international stage following the death of Gina Lollobrigida. Involved on both sides of the Atlantic in the '50s in films like Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) and Sea Fury (1958), she was. Paluzzi was given a chance to experience American TV stardom in the leading role in the role of Simone Genet on the 1959 spying weekly Five Fingers. She met with Bond producers in the year 1965 to talk about the possibility of being considered as the leading girl Domino Derval in Thunderball. The role was eventually given to the former Miss France, Claudine Auger, director Terence Young offered her the part of the villain in Fiona Volpe - one of only a handful of women on this globe who could resist the attraction of Mr. Fiona and, in a retribution and is then fatally injured by the floor of the club by Bond's associates. James, who then places her body on a nearby dining table then asks "Does it bother you if I take this role out?" "She's dead." The box-office smash enabled Luciana Paluzzi to extend her European starring career well into the 1970s, both in the US as well as Europe and with movies including Captain Nemo And The Underwater City (1969), The Six Million Dollar Man (1973), The Klansman (1974) and The Greek Tycoon