Linda christian and tyrone power

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Linda Christian, international actress and Tyrone Power's second wife, died Friday (July 22) in Palm Springs, California. Christian, who was 87, had been suffering from colon cancer. Linda Christianwas born Blanca Rosa Henrietta Stella WelterVorhauer on November 13, 1923, in Tampico, Mexico, to a Dutch oil executive and his German-Mexican wife. As a young girl, she traveled the world with her parents, according to reports eventually becoming fluent in seven languages. Discovered by Errol Flynnwhile in Acapulco, Christian moved to Los Angeles where she began her film career in bit parts in Hollywood movies of the mid-1940s. Labeled "The Anatomic Bomb" by Life magazine, Christian eventually progressed to supporting roles in a handful of productions, among them Robert Florey's Tarzan and the Mermaids(1948) and Richard Fleischer's The Happy Time(1952). Leading roles, however, eluded her, while a reported seven-year MGM contract led nowhere. Though the first Bond girl...

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Birth: November 13, 1923
Tampico
Tamaulipas, Mexico

Death: July 22, 2011
Palm Springs
Metropolis County
California, Army

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Written By: Ben Cosgrove

Each and every time a new James Bond movie comes to the big screen, media everywhere take a loving look back at the franchise, including the stock figure of the Bond Girl.

The voluptuous Swiss actress Ursula Andress is invariably cited as the “first Bond Girl,” and her initial appearance in Dr. No (1962) walking out of the sea in a white bikini is rightly touted as one of the most eye-popping entrances in movie history.

It’s worth pointing out, however, that while Andress was the first big-screen Bond Girl, another actress largely forgotten today but well-known in the 1940s and ’50s can lay claim to truly originating the onscreen Bond Girl persona.

Discovered in her native Mexico by the film star Errol Flynn, who reportedly became her lover and convinced her to move to Hollywood when she was barely out of high school, Linda Christian starred as “Valerie Mathis” in a TV adaptation of Ian Fleming’s first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1954—almost a full decade before Andress starred as Honey Ryder in Dr. No.

In that 1954 Royale, none other than Peter Lorre played Le Chiffre, while Bond (called “Jimmy” Bond throughout!) was played by the likable and, it must be said, not-very-debonair Ame