Linda Christian

Linda Christian was a Mexican film actress, who appeared in Mexican and Hollywood films. Her career reached its peak in the 1940s and 1950s. She played Mara in the last Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan film Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948). She is also noted for being the first Bond girl, appearing in a 1954 television adaptation of the James Bond novel Casino Royale. In 1963 she starred as Eva Ashley in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour titled "An Out for Oscar". She was married to actor Tyrone Power from 1949 to 1956, and they had two daughters, Romina and Taryn, who also became actresses. She later married actor Edmund Purdom in 1962, but they divorced after a year. She had a romantic relationship with Errol Flynn, who gave her the surname of Fletcher Christian, one of his previous roles. She was also known as the "anatomic bomb" for her voluptuous figure. She died of colon cancer in 2011 at the age of 87.