Acting

Linda Christian

Born November 13, 1923 · Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Died July 22, 2011 · aged 87

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 s…

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The V.I.P.s

The V.I.P.s · 1963

Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.

Show Boat

Show Boat · 1951

MovieRomanceDrama

A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.

Athena

MovieRomanceComedy

A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.

Tarzan and the Mermaids

Tarzan and the Mermaids · 1948

Tarzan and the Mermaids

MovieActionAdventure

A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.

Delitti

Delitti · 1987

MovieCrimeHorror

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

Casino Royale

Casino Royale · 1954

MovieDramaTV Movie

American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions.

Up in Arms

Up in Arms · 1944

MovieComedyRomance

Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.

Green Dolphin Street

Green Dolphin Street · 1947

Green Dolphin Street

MovieDramaHistory

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.

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The V.I.P.s

The V.I.P.s · 1963

Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.

Miriam Marshall

Show Boat

Show Boat · 1951

MovieRomanceDrama

A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.

Chorus Girl (uncredited)

Athena

MovieRomanceComedy

A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.

Beth Hallson

Tarzan and the Mermaids

Tarzan and the Mermaids · 1948

Tarzan and the Mermaids

MovieActionAdventure

A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.

Mara

Delitti

Delitti · 1987

MovieCrimeHorror

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

The Narrator

Casino Royale

Casino Royale · 1954

MovieDramaTV Movie

American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions.

Valerie Mathis

Up in Arms

Up in Arms · 1944

MovieComedyRomance

Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.

Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)

Green Dolphin Street

Green Dolphin Street · 1947

Green Dolphin Street

MovieDramaHistory

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.

Hine-Moa

Club Havana

Club Havana · 1945

MovieDramaMystery

A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.

Cigarette Girl (uncredited)

The Happy Time

The Happy Time · 1952

MovieComedyRomance

A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.

Mignonette Chappuis

Rebel Flight to Cuba

Rebel Flight to Cuba · 1959

Rebel Flight to Cuba

MovieThrillerAdventure

Peter escapes a firing squad and leaves the island of San Quinto on a commercial flight to Bermuda. The plane is hijacked by a Nazi and San Quinto's Ex-General Cordobas who shoot pilot Pink and damage the landing gear of the plane.

Gräfin Renée Colmar

All the Gold in the World

All the Gold in the World · 1968

All the Gold in the World

MovieComedyMusic

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.

Mother of Lorena

The Devil's Hand

The Devil's Hand · 1961

The Devil's Hand

MovieHorrorMystery

A man is haunted by visions of a beautiful woman. When he finally meets her, he winds up involved in a satanic cult.

Bianca Milan

Battle Zone

Battle Zone · 1952

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.

Jeanne

The House of the Seven Hawks

The House of the Seven Hawks · 1959

The House of the Seven Hawks

MovieAdventureDrama

A ship's captain gets mixed up with murder during the hunt for lost Nazi treasure.

Elsa

Full Hearts and Empty Pockets

Full Hearts and Empty Pockets · 1964

Full Hearts and Empty Pockets

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.

Minelli

The World's Gold

The World's Gold · 1967

The World's Gold

MovieMusicComedy

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.

Laura Vivaldi

How to Seduce a Playboy?

How to Seduce a Playboy? · 1966

How to Seduce a Playboy?

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.

Lucy's Mother

Slaves of Babylon

Slaves of Babylon · 1953

Slaves of Babylon

MovieHistoryAdventure

The Jews are taken from Jerusalem and made slaves by King Nebuchadnezzar. In the meantime Cyrus, king of the Persians, who has been living as a shepherd, is proclaimed king and defeats Nebuchadnezzar.

Princess Panthea

The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall

The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall · 1965

The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall

Not realizing the dangers he is facing, Young Dieter will do anything to get his ball back after it was thrown over the Berlin wall by a ruthless guar

Martha's mother

The Moment of Truth

The Moment of Truth · 1965

The Moment of Truth

Miguel, a poor young man living in Franco's Spain becomes a bull fighter to escape starvation.

Linda, American woman

Passport for a Corpse

Passport for a Corpse · 1962

Passport for a Corpse

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.

Eva

Appointment in Ischia

Appointment in Ischia · 1960

Appointment in Ischia

Famous singer Mimmo is a widower with a daughter, Letizia, to whom will give a mother. But the girl does not accept the current girlfriend of her father, growing fond of a young man, who wants as mother. The child creates many situations, such as coming to Ischia for treatment with mud, so that the two would meet and fall in love.

Mercedes Barock

The Rock of Souls

The Rock of Souls · 1943

The Rock of Souls

MovieDramaRomance

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.

(uncredited)

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour · 1962

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

SeriesCrimeMystery

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.

Eva Ashley

Climax!

Climax! · 1954

SeriesDramaMystery

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.

Valerie Mathis