Daliah Lavi died at her home in Asheville, North Carolina (???) on May 3, at age 74.
Best known for her role as one of the many “James Bonds” in 1967’s CASINO ROYALE, she also starred in various other mid-'60s spy spoofs, as well as having serious roles such as “the Girl” in Peter O’Toole’s LORD JIM. When her movie career went tail up she became a popular singer in Germany.
Born in Israel, mentored by Kirk Douglas, actress in Swedish and US movies, pop star in Germany…how did she end up in Asheville, I wonder?
I wish her American films had been more successful; I would have liked to have seen a lot more of her onscreen. If you know what I mean.
A remarkable sculptural face and the most prominent cheekbones ever. In the short list of Israeli sex kittens I think she’d outpoint Gal Gadot for the lead in Wonder Woman. Tell me she doesn’t look regal in this photo.
Women have no idea of the power of an underboob. Cleavage is lovely, but it’s pedestrian, something you’d flash at an eighth-grader, unlike a sideboob, or the most deadly, the underboob. Not a girlish lightness and softness, but something of depth and heft, as God intended.
Um…er…I saw Casino Royale the day before I graduated from the eighth grade. At the time I was working on my Joanna Pettit fixation. Something to work with, though I was confused how.
I remember watching part of The Silencers on th’ teevee when I was a kid in the 1970s. All I can remember of it is the stupid Hugh Hefner-style mechanical round bed from the first scene, after which I shut it off, considering it a lousy rip-off of James Coburn’s Our Man Flint.
