# Daliah Lavi has passed away... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 8, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daliah-lavi-has-passed-away/786167 "2017-05-08T23:12:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daliah-lavi-has-passed-away/786167/1 "2017-05-08T23:12:16Z")
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. > **[Daliah Lavi](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daliah_Lavi)** > > Daliah Lavi (born Daliah Lewinbuk or Levenbuch, Hebrew: דליה לביא \[ˌdalja laˈvi\]; 12 October 1942 – 3 May 2017) was an Israeli actress, singer, and model. > Daliah Lewinbuk (or Levenbuch) was born in Shavei Tzion, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel), the daughter of Ruth and Reuben Lewinbuk (or Levenbuch), who were of German-Jewish and Russian-Jewish descent, respectively. > At age 10 she met Kirk Douglas, who was in Israel to film The Juggler, and told him she would like to be a dancer. Do... ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daliah-lavi-has-passed-away/786167/2 "2017-05-09T00:05:58Z")
Aww. I remember her underboob from _Casino Royale_. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daliah-lavi-has-passed-away/786167/3 "2017-05-09T02:20:29Z")
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](https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/ap_07101004201.jpg?w=446&h=299&crop=1). ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daliah-lavi-has-passed-away/786167/4 "2017-05-09T02:30:34Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daliah-lavi-has-passed-away/786167/5 "2017-05-09T19:09:24Z")
There is some woman who shops at my local grocery store that is a dead-ringer for her, circa _Casino Royale._ Drives me nuts! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daliah-lavi-has-passed-away/786167/6 "2017-05-10T03:08:15Z")
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_. Should I revisit it for delicious Daliah scenes? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daliah-lavi-has-passed-away/786167/7 "2017-05-10T03:10:36Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > There is some woman who shops at my local grocery store that is a dead-ringer for her, circa _Casino Royale._ Name and address of grocery store, please. I would be happy to squeeze the peaches and cantaloupes while waiting for her to show up. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daliah-lavi-has-passed-away/786167/8 "2017-05-10T13:25:54Z")
I liked her in this [60s style bob hairdo.](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/12/39/1d/12391d3ab5a866ec6a2eaaac5846a843.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daliah-lavi-has-passed-away/786167/9 "2017-05-10T19:18:44Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Name and address of grocery store, please. I would be happy to squeeze the peaches and cantaloupes while waiting for her to show up. 1. I saw her first. 2. Other side of the country, Bro! 3. The new produce displays are horrible! If you stand around loitering, no one will be able to get around you.