In her case, she found decorative, second-tier notice via tongue-in-cheek spy spoofs, crime mysteries, erotic thrillers and rugged adventures.

Like most of the others, Daliah was to be viewed as a viable sex symbol contender. The Israeli actress first became a star in Europe before making a dent in Hollywood as part of a wave of knockout foreign star imports that flooded Hollywood during the mid 1960s - Claudia Cardinale, Julie Christie, Jeanne Moreau, Liv Ullmann, Melina Mercouri, Ursula Andress, Jacqueline Bisset, Romy Schneider, Elke Sommer, Senta Berger, Rosanna Schiaffino, Geneviève Bujold, Capucine, Shirley Eaton, Sylva Koscina, Barbara Bouchet, Susannah York, Rita Tushingham, Monica Vitti, Vanessa Redgrave and her sister Lynn Redgrave, and Catherine Deneuve and her sister Françoise Dorléac. Believing that he could not compete with the Eon series, Feldman instead produced the movie as a spy satire.Stylish, slender-framed, raven-haired Daliah Lavi was made for alluring, exotic types and princess roles with her mesmerizing beauty, chiseled cheek bones and long, flowing mane. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman failed to come to terms. Feldman, the producer, had acquired the film rights in 1960 and had attempted to get Casino Royale made as an Eon Productions Bond film, however, Feldman and Eon Productions’ Albert R.

Note: This movie is considered an “unofficial” James Bond movie because it was not produced by Eon Productions. The world’s richest agent, Vesper Lynd, helps convince Tremble to masquerade as 007. Bond, hoping to clear his name from its current low repute, hires Evelyn Tremble to meet LeChiffre at the gambling tables at Casino Royale. 007’s nephew Jimmy Bond is supposedly incompetent. The current agent using the Bond name, Cooper, has his hands full, despite his assistance by beautiful secretary, Moneypenny. Bond’s illegitimate daughter, Mata Bond, whose mother was the late Mata Hari, is going to help out. Bond is taken in by Agent Mimi (alias Lady Fiona McTarry) who immediately falls in love with him. Sir James Bond is enjoying his retirement when four international agents press him into service again in hopes of smashing SMERSH and Topple LeChiffre at the baccarat tables.

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