Linda Christian a Mexican movie actress

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Linda Christian (November 13, 1923 -- July 22, 2011) was a Mexican movie actress, who filmed films in
Mexican cinema and in Hollywood, 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 TV adaptation of the James Bond novel Casino Royale.
In 1963 she starred in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, "An Out for Oscar".
Only a month after she divorced Tyrone Power, Christian was seen with Spanish athlete Alfonso de Portago, who was
married to American Carroll de Portago (later Carroll Petrie). Carroll had recently given birth to "Fon's" second
child Anthony. De Portago was also dating model Dorian Leigh, mother of his recently born illegitimate son Kim. Linda
was photographed with de Portago at the 1957 Mille Miglia car race. A famous photo shows Linda leaning in to kiss Fon
before he drove off and crashed his Ferrari, killing himself and at least ten spectators in the process. The press
labeled the photo, "The Kiss of Death." De Portago was only 28-years-old. Her ex-husabnd, Tyrone Power died the
following year of a heart attack at the age of 44.

Christian was later married to the Rome-based British actor (and movie heartthrob) Edmund Purdom.

On several occasions Christian and Power were offered the opportunity to work together, but for various
reasons each offer was refused or rescinded. The most notable opportunity to co-star together came
in 1953, when they were offered leading roles in From Here to Eternity. Power did not wish to do the
film, rejected the offer, and the roles went to Donna Reed and Montgomery Clift.
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