1. Linda Christian's career reached its peak in the 1940s and 1950s.
15 Facts About Linda Christian
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Linda Christian played Mara in the last Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan film Tarzan and the Mermaids.
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Linda Christian is noted for being the first Bond girl, appearing in a 1954 television adaptation of the James Bond novel Casino Royale.
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The Welter family moved a great deal during Linda Christian's youth, living everywhere from South America and Europe to the Middle East and Africa.
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Linda Christian had three younger siblings: a sister, actress Ariadna Gloria Welter, and two brothers, Gerardus Jacob Welter and Edward Albert Welter.
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Linda Christian offered, and she accepted, a seven-year contract with MGM.
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Linda Christian made her film debut in the 1944 musical comedy Up in Arms, co-starring Danny Kaye and Dinah Shore.
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Linda Christian was the subject of a well-known photograph published in the January 1,1949 issue of Vogue.
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Linda Christian was the first Bond girl to appear on screen, playing Valerie Mathis in the 1954 TV adaptation of Casino Royale, beating Ursula Andress to the screen by eight years.
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Linda Christian's fame was largely derived from being married to the popular screen idol Tyrone Power between 1949 and 1956, and then from being divorced from him.
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Linda Christian wore a formfitting gold-damask gown, and the church was decorated with two thousand "Esther" carnations.
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Linda Christian was photographed with de Portago at the 1957 Mille Miglia car race.
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The photo shows Linda Christian leaning in to kiss Fon before he drove off and crashed his Ferrari, killing himself, his navigator Ed Nelson, and nine spectators in the process.
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Linda Christian was later married to the Rome-based British actor Edmund Purdom.
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Linda Christian had a relationship with Glenn Ford in the early 1960s.