Daliah Lavi

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Daliah Lavi (born Daliah Lewinbuk or Levenbuch, Template:Langx {{#invoke:IPA|main}}; 12 October 1942 – 3 May 2017) was an Israeli actress, singer, and model.

Early life

Daliah Lewinbuk (or Levenbuch) was born in Haifa,<ref>https://www.schlager.de/stars/daliah-lavi/</ref> British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel). Her mother Ruth Klammer was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) to Theodor Hermann Klammer and Gertrud Klammer and was of German-Jewish descent. Her father Reuben was born in Belarus to Yosef Lewinbuk and Michla Levine of Russian-Jewish descent. The family surname is Lewinbuk (or Levenbuch).<ref name="Severin">Template:Cite AV media</ref><ref name="varietyobit">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Daliah met Kirk Douglas when she was 10 years old. Kirk Douglas was in Israel in order to film The Juggler. Daliah told him that she would like to be a dancer. Douglas helped persuade her parents<ref name="slotnik">Template:Cite news</ref> to send her to Stockholm, Sweden to study ballet.<ref name="varietyobit"/> Daliah was not suited to the climate. Daliah gave up dancing, and she returned to Israel in order to be a model. A cheesecake photo of Daliah Lavi, while she was adjusting her bikini after it broke while at a Rio de Janeiro swimming pool, was circulated widely by the Associated Press in 1959.<ref>Horsley, Edith, The 1950s, Bison Books Ltd. London 1978, p. 236, picture and caption top left.</ref>

She performed her national service as a goodwill ambassador. Daliah appeared in several more films, Daliah was spotted on a beach during a trip to Rome. Daliah was offered a role in Two Weeks in Another Town, reuniting her with Douglas.<ref name="Severin"/>

Career

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Lavi in Il demonio, 1963

In 1955, Lavi appeared in her first film, Template:Interlanguage link,<ref name="varietyobit"/> a Swedish adaptation of August Strindberg's 1887 novel The People of Hemsö.<ref name=slotnik/> She eventually returned to Israel. Her career took off in 1960 when she started appearing in numerous European and American productions. Daliah was fluent in several languages; she acted in German, French, Italian, Spanish and English.<ref name="varietyobit"/> Lavi was reunited with Douglas in her first American film, Vincente Minnelli's Two Weeks in Another Town (1962).<ref name=slotnik/>

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Lavi in Leipzig, Germany in 2009

She appeared in Brunello Rondi's witch hunt-themed movie Il demonio (1963), which she considered her best performance.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> She also appeared in Mario Bava's Gothic classic La Frusta e il corpo (1963), and the first Matt Helm film, The Silencers (1966) opposite Dean Martin.<ref name="varietyobit"/> Her portrayal of The Girl, Peter O'Toole's love interest, in 1965's Lord Jim, was to have been her breakout American role. However, the tepid reaction of audiences prompted Lavi to accept a new career path.

Lavi frequently played a scantily clad or partly nude femme fatale,<ref name=slotnik/> but one nude scene was mainly done by a body double. In 1964, the French comedy The Troops of St. Tropez had recently opened; this featured nudism and also premiered in Croatia where the Western Old Shatterhand (film) was made by West German producers at the Krka National Park waterfalls. The second part of a skinny-dipping scene at the falls was made with Lavi during the summer, but the initial jump from the falls (filmed later in the year at low water levels for safety) used a local look-alike when Lavi became ill. The stand-in, Gordana Ceko, climbed over slippery rocks and jumped into the cold water.<ref>https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/in-den-schluchten-des-balkan-3793543.html</ref>

Lavi played European entertainer Ilona Bergen in the 1965 mystery Ten Little Indians, an adaptation of Agatha Christie's thriller. She also acted as "The Detainer/007" in Casino Royale (1967).<ref name="varietyobit"/><ref name="thehollywoodreporterbarnes">Template:Cite news</ref>

In 1970, she was discovered by record producer Jimmy Bowien and began a successful schlager singing career in Germany. Some of her biggest hits were Oh Wann Kommst Du (composed by John Kongos), Willst Du Mit Mir Gehn (Kongos), and "C'est ça, la vie (So ist das Leben)".<ref name="varietyobit"/> In August 1971, Daliah's single "Jerusalem" peaked at number 98 in Australia.<ref name=aus>Template:Cite book</ref>

Death

Lavi died on 3 May 2017, aged 74, from undisclosed causes<ref name="deadlineobit">Template:Cite news</ref> in Asheville, North Carolina, US.<ref name="deadlineobit"/><ref name="varietyobit"/> Her funeral and burial were in Israel.<ref name="thehollywoodreporterbarnes"/>

Filmography

Discography

References

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