When she came out of the sea bikini-clad, in the first James Bond film, Dr. No she set a trend for all Bond Girls for the rest of eternity; she didn’t realize it but she provided the swinging sixties with its splashy equivalent of “The Blue Lagoon”. Originally from Switzerland, a country that produces more than its share of beautiful woman, Ursula had appeared in several racy-for-their-time Italian pictures beginning with 1950s.

Her stoic beauty-and the Bond notoriety propelled her career in the 1960s, but she wasn’t exclusively Hollywood’s girl. Though out the 1970s she would bounce across the Atlantic to make films of all kinds and even star in a few made-for -TV movies that would make her a known and appreciated name. In the 1980s she would make films like “Clash of The Titans” but it wasn’t to be. Like so many other flowers imported from the Europe, her appeal to American audiences exhausted, Ursula would have to work for the rest on her own.

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