Luciana Paluzzi
Actress Luciana Paluzzi was one of the many gorgeous Italian brunettes who were destined for world-wide fame in the aftermath of the tragic Gina Lollobrigida. After making appearances on both coasts of the Atlantic in the 1950s on films like Three Coins in the Fountain, (1954), and Sea Fury, (1958) Luciana Paluzzi was offered a chance at American TV fame in the role of Simone Genet in the spy weekly Five Fingers in 1959. 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. When the role ended up going to the former Miss France, Claudine Auger and 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. Bond Perhaps as a the punishment, Fiona is killed on the dance floor by her colleagues, after which James takes her body to the table next to it and asks "Do do you mind if your partner sits this one out? That's not the fault of Fiona. The box-office smash enabled Luciana Paluzzi to extend her European starring career well into the '70s in both the US and Europe as well, in films such as Captain Nemo And The Underwater City (1969), The Six Million Dollar Man (1973), The Klansman (1974) and The Greek Tycoon



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