Birth: 19 March 1936, Ostermundigen, Bern, Switzerland
Ursula Andress started her movie career with small roles in Italian films. Eventually, she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures and came to the United States. She and married John Derek in 1957, and dropped out of movies for several years.
In the year 1962, she co-starred with Sean Connery in the first movie version of Ian Fleming's fanciful "James Bond" novels, "Dr. No".
The success of "Dr. No" established her screen presence and she was cast along with icons such as Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr.
Andress made many more movies in the United States and Europe from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. Casino Royale (1967) was another foray for her into the world of James Bond.
In 1979, she began her second romance with Harry Hamlin, her handsome young co-star from Clash of the Titans (1981). She and Hamlin had a child, who was named Dimitri Hamlin.
After the her son's birth, Andress scaled back her career and she raised Dimitri in Rome. She last worked on a film in 1997.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1079213/My-bones-like-glass-Why-Bond-Girl-Ursula-Andress-blames-ravaged-osteoporosis.html
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