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. ...
Discovered by Errol Flynn while 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 in the 1954 television production of Casino Royale, starring Barry Nelson as James Bond and a favorite subject of painter Diego Rivera, Linda Christian's chief claim to fame remains her marriage to 20th Century Fox superstar Tyrone Power, whom she met while Power was still married to wife no. 1, Annabella. ...
The couple were divorced in 1956. The previous year, Christian was called to testify at a Los Angeles court because she refused to return jewels given her by Milwaukee socialite Robert H. Schlesinger, whose check for $100,000 as partial payment for the jewels had bounced. ...
In 1962, four years after Power's death of a heart attack while filming Solomon and Sheba in Spain, Christian married Edmund Purdom, best-known for playing the title role in the 1954 MGM musical The Student Prince. (Mario Lanza provided the student prince's singing voice.) The marriage was terminated the following year. ...
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