Luciana Paluzzi

Luciana Paluzzi, an Italian actress, who was a brunette with a lot of her body and a large smile, was a star following the success of Gina Lollobrigida. After working on both coasts of the Atlantic during the 1950s, in films like Three Coins in the Fountain, (1954), and Sea Fury, (1958) Luciana Paluzzi had a shot at American TV fame in the part of Simone Genet in the spy weekly Five Fingers in 1959. When she was in 1965, she met with the Bond producers and was a candidate to play the role of lead Domino Derval's role in Thunderball. Terence Young, the director was willing to offer Fiona Volpe the role as the villain. She was one of the many women who could resist the temptation of Mr. Fiona and, in a retribution she is killed to the ground of the club by Bond's companions. James, who then lay her dead body at a nearby dining table then asks "Does it bother you if I lay this body out?" "She's dead." The blockbuster at the box office enabled Luciana Paluzzi to extend her European acting career into the '70s in both 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