Linda Christian, a 1940s Hollywood actress nicknamed "anatomic bomb" by Life magazine for her stunning looks and famous for her marriage to actor Tyrone Power, has died aged 87, her daughter said here Saturday. Romina Power told journalists in Rome that her mother, who had been suffering from colon cancer, died in Palm Springs on Friday.
Born in 1923 in Mexico, Christian - whose real name was Blanca Rosa Henrietta Stella Welter Vorhauer - was known for playing Mara in the last Tarzan film starring Johnny Weissmuller in 1948. She was also the first James Bond girl in the 1954 television adaption of "Casino Royale".