Luciana Paluzzi
The actress Luciana Paluzzi was one of several sexy Italian brunettes preparing for international stardom in the wake of the tragic Gina Lollobrigida. Involved on both sides of the Atlantic through the '50s on films like Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) and Sea Fury (1958), the actress. Paluzzi was given a chance at American TV stardom in the leading role as Simone Genet on the 1959 espionage weekly Five Fingers. She met with the Bond producers in the year 1965 to consider possibilities of being cast as the leading girl Domino Derval in Thunderball. While that role eventually went to former Miss France, Claudine Auger who was the director, Terence Young offered her the villainess role of Fiona Volpe - one of the very few females on the planet able to resist the enticement of Mr. Fiona Volpe gets killed on the dancefloor by Bond's personal friends, probably to make her pay for her actions. James then places her dead body near a table, and then asks "Do you feel that it is okay if my companion stays at there at all times?" The fault is not with her. The blockbuster at the box office enabled Luciana Paluzzi to extend her European star career to the '70s in both the US and Europe, with films like Captain Nemo And The Underwater City (1969), The Six Million Dollar Man (1973), The Klansman (1974) as well as The Greek Tycoon
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