Linda Christian

Linda Christian

Nascimento : 1923-11-13, Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Morte : 2011-07-22

História

Linda Christian (born November 13, 1923) is 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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Linda Christian, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Linda Christian

Filmes

Hollywood : la vie rêvée de Lana Turner
(archive footage)
Portrait of Julia Jean Turner, from her childhood to her rise of fame as Lana Turner, to her last role.
The Road to Casino Royale
Documentary that traces the tangled rights to Ian Fleming's "Casino Royale," the first James Bond story, which took over a half century to reach the screen in recognizable form.
The One, the Only, the Real Tarzan
Herself
The One, The Only, The Real Tarzan is a compelling look at the turbulent life of Johnny Weissmuller, the Olympic champion who became the most famous Tarzan of the movies.
Cambiamento d'aria
Linda Christian
Delitti
The Narrator
A mysterious murderer has already killed seven people using the deadly venom of a snake from Martinique which causes immediate death with the victim's face turning into a horrible mask. A young and ingenious police lieutenant is called on the case
All the Gold in the World
Mother of Lorena
The son of a rich industrialist forces a woman to become his fiancée by threatening to bankrupt her parents — until an unlikely hero steps in.
The World's Gold
Laura Vivaldi
Aided by a chauffeur and a butler, a student of humble means pretends to be wealthy in order to attract the romantic interest of a rich girl.
How to Seduce a Playboy?
Lucy's Mother
A young man is chosen by a magazine company to be a modeled into a public heart-throb while being dogged by a persistant reporter out to expose the fraud the company is putting out.
10.32
Ellen Martens
Painter Peter Hartman is arrested at the scene of a murder. He soon turns out to have ties to the victim's young widow. As Inspector Stroomer begins to unravel the mystery, two very different sides of the story are presented to him. Now it is up to Stroomer to find enough photographic evidence to make out which version is the truth.
Os Bravos na Arena
Linda, American woman
Miguel, a poor young man living in Franco's Spain becomes a bull fighter to escape starvation.
The Beauty Jungle
Self - Rose of England Judge
A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.
Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
Minelli
A young German comes to Rome on vacation and is not slow to win female hearts. When the game become dangerous due to a possible marriage, the young man returns to his homeland.
Gente Muito Importante
Miriam Marshall
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
Passport for a Corpse
Eva
When a robbery goes wrong the only survivor tries to smuggle himself across the border by hiding in a coffin. When he gets out of the coffin he finds himself locked in a morgue freezer with three dead bodies. While trying to escape the morgue and his isolation he slowly starts going mad and hallucinating. Throughout the film he is haunted or menaced by a woman who may or may not be real. Unique and strange film that gets more and more weird as it goes along.
The Devil's Hand
Bianca Milan
Um homem constantemente tem visões com uma mulher misteriosa, ao encontrar essa mulher ele é a coloca em um ritual satânico
Das große Wunschkonzert
Vilma Cortini
Appuntamento a Ischia
Mercedes Barock
Peter Voss, der Held des Tages
Grace McNaughty
The House of the Seven Hawks
Elsa
A ship's captain gets mixed up with murder during the hunt for lost Nazi treasure.
A Mulher de Ninguém
Maria Ramon
A luminously beautiful, provocative young woman is rescued near a small fishing village on the Spanish coast. The scene is set for a drama of dangerous passion that threatens to tear apart the simple, tranquil life of the village forever.
Athena
Beth Hallson
A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.
Cassino Royale
Valerie Mathis
Jimmy Bond (Barry Nelson) deve vencer, no jogo, Le Chiffre (Peter Lorre), o chefe de uma organização terrorista soviética. O vilão usa o dinheiro dos seus empregados na mesa de apostas. "Casino Royale" é o terceiro episódio da primeira temporada da série de televisão "Climax!", sendo uma adaptação do romance homônimo escrito por Ian Fleming, e a primeira adaptação de um romance de James Bond.
Escravos da Babilônia
Princess Panthea
Os Judeus são levados de Jerusalém e feitos escravos pelo Rei Nebuchadnezzar. Entretanto Cyrus, rei dos Persas, que tem vivido como um pastor, é proclamado rei e derrota Nebuchadnezzar
The Happy Time
Mignonette Chappuis
A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.
Linha de Fogo
Jeanne
Two Marine Corps combat photographers compete for the love of a Red Cross nurse during the Korean War. During a secret mission behind the North Korean lines their rivalry reaches a boiling point.
O Barco das Ilusões
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Magnolia Hawks vive no Cotton Blossom, barco de shows de seu pai, o Capitão Andy. Ela conhece o jogador Gaylord Ravenal na cidade à beira do rio, e se apaixona por ele. Na mesma tarde, durante o ensaio para o show daquele dia, a estrela Julie e seu marido e co-estrela Steve são forçados a deixar a companhia. Gaylord é contratado para ocupar o lugar de Steve, enquanto Magnolia ocupa o lugar de Julie. Eles se apaixonam e casam. Deixando o barco de shows, 'Nola, Gay e sua pequena filha, Kim, se mudam para Chicago, onde sua fortuna cresce ou mingua dependendo da sorte de Gay. Enfim, ele abandona sua esposa e filha, e ela é forçada a retornar aos palcos, onde ela se torna uma estrela.
Tarzan e as Sereias
Mara
A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
A Rua do Delfim Verde
Hine-Moa
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite's sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and Edmund helps him flee to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a profitable business. One night, drunk, William writes Octavius, demanding his daughter's hand; but, being drunk, he asks for the wrong sister.
Club Havana
Cigarette Girl (uncredited)
A doctor answers a suicide call in a Latin nightclub.
Up in Arms
Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
The Spirit's Canyon
(uncredited)
The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.