Luciana Paluzzi

Luciana Paluzzi is one of the many brunettes who were groomed to become international stars following the success of Gina Lollobrigida. Involved on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1950s, in such movies as Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) and Sea Fury (1958), she was. Paluzzi was given a opportunity to achieve American TV stardom in the role as Simone Genet on the 1959 espionage-themed weekly Five Fingers. She met with Bond producers in 1965 to talk about the possibility of being considered as the leading girl Domino Derval in Thunderball. While that role eventually went to the former Miss France, Claudine Auger and director Terence Young offered her the part of the villain in Fiona Volpe - one of the few women on the planet able to resist the attraction of Mr. Bond and, perhaps as the punishment, Fiona is killed on the dance floor by her own friends, and James puts her body in the table next to it and asks "Do you think it's okay if my partner sits this one out? It's not her fault. The blockbuster at the box office enabled Luciana Paluzzi to extend her European starring career well into her 70s, in both the US and Europe, with films that included Captain Nemo And The Underwater City (1969), The Six Million Dollar Man (1973), The Klansman (1974) as well as The Greek Tycoon