Plenty O'Toole
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Plenty O'Toole is a fictional character from the film version of Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever. She was played by Lana Wood, younger sister of Natalie Wood.
The shapely dark haired, dark eyed, Plenty O'Toole is a very beautiful young woman, and her beauty is enhanced by a low cut purple satin dress that places emphasis on her cleavage, as does a golden and diamond necklace. When we first see her, she is at a craps table in Vegas and the man she is with, Maxy, is broke. He asks her back to his place, but she tells him off and walks away, but her attention is called back to the table by James Bond, played by Sean Connery. She is impressed by his gambling skills and latches herself onto his arm, thinking she's hit the jackpot with him. Bond uncharacteristically tries to send her away, but she proves quite difficult to ditch.
In a scene deleted from the theatrical film but now available on DVD, Plenty and Bond share a dinner together and she invites herself to his apartment.
-->Plenty accompanies Bond to his apartment and displays her affection for him by kissing him out of the blue. Bond characteristically responds by undressing her—unzipping her purple satin dress, stripping Plenty down to her necklace, her purple high heels and her transparent pink panties. Now almost completely naked, and anticipating a night of passion, Plenty, speaking in a fake throaty voice, excuses herself to her bedroom, where she takes off her necklace and prepares to remove her high heels and her panties, but discovers several thugs there instead. The nearly naked Plenty is forced out of the apartment by the "perverts convention" and is defenestrated, landing in the pool. Bond sarcastically compliments the thugs on their aim, to which one of them replies "I didn't know there was a pool down there," implying that they intended to kill her.
In a scene deleted from the film, a wet Plenty wearing nothing but a white towel returns to Bond's apartment in hopes of retrieving her clothes and is shocked to see Bond making love to Tiffany Case (Jill St. John). This scene has been restored on the DVD.
The next morning, Plenty visits Tiffany's house, presumably to confront her rival for Bond's attentions, although her precise motivation is never revealed. Instead, she encounters Mr. Wint & Mr. Kidd, who promptly drown her in Tiffany's swimming pool, either because they mistake her for Tiffany or because they want to silence an inconvenient witness. The discovery of O'Toole's body then becomes a major factor in winning Tiffany over to Bond's side.
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