1940s actress Linda Christian dies played Bondgirl in Casino Royale 1954 First ‘Bond girl’ dies.
Linda Christian, Actress: The Devil’s Hand. Born Blanca Rosa Welter, her father was an executive … Valerie Mathis. – Casino Royale (1954) … Valerie Mathis …
Linda Christian
Linda Christian, Actress: The Devil’s Hand. Born Blanca Rosa Welter, her father was an executive … Valerie Mathis. – Casino Royale (1954) … Valerie Mathis …Born Blanca Rosa Welter, her father was an executive with an important oil company and the future Linda Christian followed him from country to country: South Africa, Romania, Germany, France, Switzerland, England, Palestine. This was beneficial in that the little girl – a very good pupil at school – was eventually able to speak seven different foreign languages…Linda Christian, a 1940s Hollywood actress nicknamed ”anatomic bomb” by Life magazine for her stunning looks and famous for her marriage to actor Tyrone Power, has died aged 87, her daughter said here Saturday.Romina Power told journalists in Rome that her mother, who had been suffering from colon cancer, died in Palm Springs on Friday.Born in 1923 in Mexico, Christian — whose real name was Blanca Rosa Henrietta Stella Welter Vorhauer — was known for playing Mara in the last Tarzan film starring Johnny Weissmuller in 1948.She was also the first James Bond girl in the 1954 television adaption of ”Casino Royale”.
But she was perhaps most famous for her seven-year marriage to 20th Century Fox star Tyrone Power, with whom she had two children.
Thousands of people flocked to Rome to celebrate their wedding in 1949 in the Santa Francesca Romana church, a stone’s throw from the Colosseum. The newlyweds were later received by Pope Pius XII.
Linda Christian föddes den 13 November 1924 i Tampico, Mexico. Hon hette egentligen Blanca Rosa Welter och hennes far var född i Holland och hennes mor var av tysk-fransk-spansk härkomst. Hon upptäcktes av Errol Flynn.
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