Linda Christian was first featured in LIFE magazine in 1945 with the caption, 'Hollywood's 'Anatomic Bomb' soaks up solar energy.' For more on the actress and very first (television) Bond girl, check out:
Bob Landry The LIFE Picture Collection/ShutterstockBob Landry The LIFE Picture Collection/ShutterstockEach and every time a new James Bond movie comes to the big screen, media everywhere take a loving look back at the franchise, including the stock figure of the Bond Girl.
Discovered in her native Mexico by the film star Errol Flynn, who reportedly became her lover and convinced her to move to Hollywood when she was barely out of high school, Linda Christian starred as “Valerie Mathis” in a TV adaptation of Ian Fleming’s first Bond novel,In that 1954, none other than Peter Lorre played Le Chiffre, while Bond was played by the likable and, it must be said, not-very-debonair American actor, Barry Nelson.
Welter. Her father, an oil executive, traveled widely, taking his family with him. They were in Palestine in 1941 during a bomb scare. Linda was evacuated to Mexico with a bad case of malaria, recovered, went to Hollywood to join her brother, got a job modeling hats, was seen and singed by M-G-M. So far she has been in no pictures, the publicity role of the Anatomic Bomb being her first important assignment.
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