Anecdotes

In his autobiography "My Wicked, Wicked Ways" Errol Flynn says he met Linda Welter in a Mexico City bar and took her to Acapulco. She told him she had never been to the US and wanted to go. He offered a contract and, after she got to Hollywood, paid Dr. Bill Wallace to fix her teeth. Flynn had once played Fletcher Christian, and changed her name to Linda Christian.

Was the very first "James Bond" girl, appearing in a TV adaptation of the Bond novel "Casino Royale" in 1954, Casino Royale (1954).

Mother of actress Taryn Power and actress Romina Power.

During the late 1940s she roomed with Ruth Roman and five other aspiring actresses. They called the residence "The House of Seven Garbos.".

Attended universities in Mexico, Venezuela, Palestine, South Africa, Holland and Italy.

Linda and her sister, Ariadne Welter, appeared in one movie together, The Devil's Hand (1961).

Both of Christian's husbands were contract players at 20th Century-Fox: Tyrone Power and Edmund Purdom.

Once worked as a plastic surgeon's assistant.

Worked for the British Censorship Bureau in Palestine.

Is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Palm Springs, CA.

Older sister of actress Ariadne Welter.

Her maternal grandmother Antonia Pascuala Villalobos Hinojosa was born in the city of Matamoros in the state of Tamaulipas in Mexico.

Former daughter-in-law of Tyrone Power Sr. Former sister-in-law of Anne Power.

Her mother María Blanca Rosa Vorhauer Villalobos was born in Ciudad Victoria in The state of Tamaulipas in Mexico.

Former mother-in-law of William Greendeer, Norman Seeff and Tony Fox Sales and Al Bano. Grandmother of Ylenia Carrisi, Yari Carrisi, Cristèl Carrisi and Romina Carrisi Power (Romina's children); Tai Dawn Seeff, Anthony Tyrone Sales, Valentina Fox Sales and Stella Bianca Greendeer (Taryn's children). Greatgrandmother of Kay Luksic (Cristèl's son).