Ursula Thiess
Ursula Thiess ( born May 15, 1924 as Ursula Schmidt in Hamburg, † June 19, 2010 in Burbank, California ) was a German - American actress.
Life
In 1942 she married the German film producer Georg Otto Thiess. Marriage, from a daughter and a son emerged, was divorced in 1947. After the divorce, Ursula Thiess worked successfully as a model and moved from Berlin to Munich. In 1949 she was awarded in the German feature film Night Watch, directed by Harald Braun their first small film role opposite Luise Ullrich, René Deltgen and Dieter Borsche.
In the spring of 1951, she went at the invitation of Howard Hughes with her two children to Hollywood. There they received a contract with the film studio RKO Pictures. Effective media presents as the most beautiful woman in the world, Thiess 1951 graced among others, the cover of an edition of the American magazine Life. She starred in several films, but without making the expected career. In her first Hollywood film, the 1952 turned adventure film Monsoon, George Nader was her co-star. In other films she played among other things on the side of Hollywood stars like Glenn Ford in Americano and Rock Hudson in rifles for Bengali, and with Robert Mitchum in Grenade Joe.
In 1954 she married the actor Robert Taylor. With the birth of the two children ( born 1955 ) and (* 1959), Ursula Thiess entirely devoted to family life on a ranch in the San Fernando Valley. As an actress, she appeared only sporadically in appearance. On the side of her husband, she appeared in two episodes of the TV series No case for the FBI in which Robert Taylor played the lead role. In 1963 she stood for an episode of the detective series 77 Sunset Strip in front of the camera. Robert Taylor died in 1969 from lung cancer, in the same year had Thiess also the death of her eldest son suffered. In the 1970s she married a third time, the marriage lasted until her husband's death in 1986. Their final years spent Thiess in an assisted living facility in California. In 2003, her autobiography entitled " ... but I have promises to keep. " My Life Before, With, and After Robert Taylor.
Thiess died of natural causes in a nursing facility Assisted Living in Burbank on June 19, 2010, at the age of 86 years.