Linda Christian, R. I. P.

Obituaries: Michael Cacoyannis, Linda Christian - latimes.com: "Linda Christian, 87, a Hollywood starlet in the 1940s who married heartthrob Tyrone Power and went on to play the first Bond girl in a 1954 television production of 'Casino Royale,' died Friday at her Palm Desert home after battling colon cancer, according to her daughter Romina Power.

Born Nov. 13, 1923, in Tampico, Mexico, Christian pursued an acting career in Los Angeles and eventually signed a contract with MGM.

A year after appearing in 1948's 'Tarzan and the Mermaids,' Christian married Power, one of Hollywood's most popular leading men. She was the second of his three wives. They had two daughters, then divorced in 1956. Power died in 1958. She later had a brief marriage to British actor Edmund Purdom."

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.