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- Gorgeous was too tame a word for this foreigner stunner. Glamorous brunette beauty Ursula Thiess was born Ursula Schmidt in Hamburg, Germany on May 15, 1924, the daughter of Hans Schmidt, who managed a printing company, and Wilhelmine Lange, her turbulent childhood including working as compulsory farm laborer on the orders of the Nazi government when the teen refused to join the paramilitary Hitler Youth Movement. She later began her entertainment career in her native homeland appearing on the stage and dubbing female voices in American films.
Married to director Georg Thieß, the couple's marriage was a relatively unhappy one and they eventually divorced. With two children (Manuela and Michael) in tow, she found work in the late 1940s/early 1950s as a fashion model in Berlin. She left postwar Germany at the urging of Howard Hughes and signed up with his RKO company for film representation.
Billed as "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" during her initial build-up, her debut movie was as a mixed-race English/Indian girl in the outdoor drama Monsoon (1952) opposite the handsome, frequently bare-chested George Nader. While she failed to weave the same kind of foreign magic as that of Marlene Dietrich, she was far more beautiful and was voted "Most Promising Star of 1952" by Modern Screen Magazine and a Golden Globe the next year. This exotic temptation remained a fetching distraction amid the rugged scenery where, percentage-wise, the story and action remained strongly focused on her handsome he-man co-stars: Robert Stack in The Iron Glove (1954); Rock Hudson in Bengal Brigade (1954); and Glenn Ford in The Americano (1955); Robert Mitchum in Bandido! (1956), among others. Her Hollywood career wound up very short but sweet.
During her brief peak, Ursula met and eventually married the exceedingly handsome film star Robert Taylor (in 1954) and she subsequently abandoned her film career. Outside of her two children by her first marriage, Ursula had two more children (Terrance in 1955 and Tessa in 1959), by Taylor. Though she seemed quite content to be out of the limelight, she did appear with some regularity on her husband's TV series The Detectives (1959) during its first season, playing a police reporter who has a brief affair with Taylor's character. While raising her children was her prime job, she also became an active volunteer at a children's hospital.
Following her son Michael's tragic suicide from a drug overdose and husband Taylor's death shortly thereafter from lung cancer, both in 1969, Ursula was glimpsed here and there in a light sprinkling of film and TV appearances before bowing out completely. .
Surviving an operation for a benign brain tumor in 1979, the former actress married wealthily for a third time and lived in Hawaii during part of that marriage, but would find herself widowed again in 1987 after 12 years. Known to be an excellent home decorator and gourmet cook, she eventually wrote an autobiography entitled "But I Have Promises to Keep" in 2003. Living in the Los Angeles area for the remainder of her life, she eventually entered an assisted facility in Burbank and died on June 19, 2010, at the age of 86, survived by her three remaining children. - Danny Nelson was born on 16 March 1935 in LaFayette, Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), A Time to Kill (1996) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). He died on 19 June 2010 in New Liberty Trail, Georgia, USA.
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Nathalie Nattier was born on 19 May 1924 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Love Me If You Dare (2003), Moumou (1951) and L'idiot (1946). She was married to Sacha Weill and Jacques Torrens. She died on 19 June 2010 in Lagny-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, France.- Daisy D'Ora was born on 2 February 1913 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for Pandora's Box (1929), Nur am Rhein ... (1930) and Hungarian Nights (1929). She was married to Otto Schlitter. She died on 19 June 2010 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- János Horkay was born on 11 April 1924 in Keszthely, Hungary. He was an actor, known for A pénzcsináló (1964), Fürkész történetei (1983) and Kötelék (1968). He died on 19 June 2010 in Hungary.
- Manute Bol was born on 16 October 1962 in Gogrial, Sudan. He was an actor, known for NBA Hardwood Classics (1992), Famous: The Tom Gross Story and Hardcore TV (1992). He was married to Ajok Giugwol. He died on 19 June 2010 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
- Vince O'Brien was born on 11 January 1919 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for Quiz Show (1994), Annie Hall (1977) and Dark Shadows (1966). He was married to Kate. He died on 19 June 2010 in Haworth, New Jersey, USA.
- Vanna Brosio was born on 18 April 1943 in Turin, Italy. She was an actress, known for Safety Catch (1970), Dal sabato al lunedì (1962) and White Horses of Summer (1975). She died on 19 June 2010 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Joan Fairfax was born on 24 June 1926 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Wayne & Shuster Show (1954), The Denny Vaughan Show (1954) and The Wayne and Shuster Hour (1957). She died on 19 June 2010 in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA.
- Anthony Quinton was born on 25 March 1925 in Chatham, Kent, England, UK. He died on 19 June 2010 in England.
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Helmut Straßburger was born on 11 January 1930 in Dessau, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Unser kurzes Leben (1981), Emilia Galotti (1958) and Mohr und die Raben von London (1968). He was married to Erika Straßburger and Astrid Strassburger. He died on 19 June 2010 in Berlin, Germany.- Georgiy Engel was born on 18 February 1918 in Rostov-na-Donu. He was an actor, known for Semya Gribushinykh (1923) and Kochuyushchiy front (1972). He died on 19 June 2010 in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
- Gregory Scanlon was born on 3 September 1959 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Love Walked In (1997). He died on 19 June 2010 in Tiburon, California, USA.
- Carlos Monsivåis was born on 4 May 1938 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor and writer, known for En este pueblo no hay ladrones (1965), The Outsiders (1967) and Las visitaciones del diablo (1968). He died on 19 June 2010 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
- Angela Rumbold was born on 11 August 1932. She was married to John Marix Rumbold. She died on 19 June 2010.