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Ursula Andress was known for her beauty throughout the 1960s, mostly thanks to a little film named Dr. No.
Throughout her career, Ursula used her looks to her advantage and took over the silver screen across the world. But behind the scenes, she was just as mysterious and alluring as she was onscreen. She led a wild life and made the most of her time as a Hollywood heartbreaker. Get to know more about her with these 25 stunning facts about the first Bond Girl, Ursula Andress.
She is from Switzerland
Ursula Andress was born in Ostermundigen, Switzerland, on March 19, 1936. She was the third child born to Anna and Rolf Andress who would go on to have three more children together. Her father, Rolf, was a German diplomat, so they lived a privileged life in a large house.
However, he was expelled from Switzerland due to political reasons, and her grandfather became the guardian of Ursula and her siblings. Their grandfather wasn’t the doting type. He worked a busy job as a garden designer
She Worked Hard and Dreamed of Leaving
Ursula’s grandfather put her to work when she came to live with him. She did hard labor in his large nursery. She would work in the greenhouses during the day and clean out furnaces at night.
By the time she was 16, Ursula was going to school in Bern, Switzerland, and knew how to speak, German, French, and Italian. She wanted to travel the world and was more than ready to leave Switzerland behind. Her strict grandfather was the only obstacle standing in her way.
Her Big Break Came When She Was At School
A french film school visited Ursula’s school when she was 17. They were in the process of filming L’Affaire Maurizius, which starred the heartthrob Daniel Gélin. Upon meeting him, Ursula fell totally in love even though Gélin was 30 years old and married. Ursula’s infatuation with Gélin worried her mother.
And when Gélin finished his movie, they devised a way to get Ursula out of Switzerland. Gélin made a fake contract that stated Studios de Billancourt would get Ursula “into movies.” Her mother eventually relented and let her leave for Paris.
Her Family Had to Track Her Down
While in Paris, Ursula studied for a year. But things started to fall apart when she and Gélin ended up in Rome. Gélin’s issues became too much for Ursula thanks to his drug use, so she dumped him. But she didn’t tell anyone.
Her family realized she was AWOL, alone and abroad. To find her, they didn’t stop at contacting the local police. They got Interpol involved, too! Despite this, Ursula refused to be brought back to Switzerland and decided to try and hide.
She Hid With Bridgitte Bardot
Ursula was able to avoid Interpol for a while by hiding at the Hotel de la Ville with Bridgitte Bardot, an actress and model, and Roger Vadmin, a movie director. Vadim later stated that the trio “slept innocently naked, three to a bed.”
But Ursula couldn’t hide from Interpol forever. They eventually caught her and tried to bring her home. Somehow, she convinced her family to let her stay in Rome. For a while, she took nannying jobs to get by in Rome. But with her stunning good looks, it wasn’t long before Urseul got into modeling.
She Was a Jake-of-All-Trades At Times
Ursula began modeling by posting for artists around the area. Then, she found her way into the movie business. During this time, she appeared in three different movies that were filmed in Rome.
Upon the advice of Marlon Brando, an old friend of Gélin’s, Ursula stopped jumping from job to job and decided to try and make it in Hollywood. After doing a screentest for Paramount Pictures, she was offered a seven-year contract and uprooted her life in Rome to make it big on the silver screen!
Her Hollywood Training was Grueling
In January 1955, Ursula started her Hollywood education. Paramount began her training by getting her to study the movies of Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo. They were two of the most beautiful actresses of their time.
Paramount also sent her to learn English from the mother of Audrey Hepburn, though she was unsuccessful in the end. However, Ursula found this to be too confining for her free-spirited way. She said she felt like they “locked me up in a glass cage.”
Her Social Life Kept Her Career Afloat
Ursula was receiving weekly payments from Paramount, but her career was in jeopardy because she couldn’t speak English. But she found her ways to keep her name in the mouths of the public.
Her social life made her well known, especially since she had a fling with the incredibly famous actor, James Dean, for four months. Though it helped with her positive publicity, the fling did not advance her career. After ending her fling with Dean, Ursula met John Derek when she was 19 years old. He was handsome and a Hollywood actor who was also married with children.
Her Career Was Going Nowhere
Derek ended up walking out on his family for Ursula and the two got married in 1957 before going around the world on a four-year-long honeymoon. During this time, Derek became baffled at Ursula’s lack of ambition. She bought herself out of her Paramount contract and signed with Columbia Pictures.
However, her career continued going nowhere. She rejected the roles she was given and would not read the scripts the studio sent to her. Ursula’s career would have continued to go nowhere if it weren’t for a stroke of luck in 1962.
She Almost Refused to be Honey Ryder
A photo of Ursula, taken by Derek, found its way into the hands of the producers for a film titled Dr. No, the first James Bond movie.
Her looks sold the producers and they instantly gave her the role of Honey Ryder, the seductive love interest of James Bond. Filming was to being in two weeks. But this still wasn’t enough for Ursula. She turned down the role at first. But when her good friend and famous actor, Kirk Douglas, read her the script out loud, she fell in love with it and finally accepted the role.
Filming Could Be Difficult
Ursula set off for Jamaica and the set of Dr. No, only to become intimidated by Sean Connery upon first meeting him. However, she and Connery quickly hit it off. They had great onscreen chemistry, and developed a friendship offscreen, as well! Connery became “very protective” of Ursula who still did not know English and was relatively unknown. This helped her feel more comfortable on set. Especially with the issues she faced.
For starters, she was told she didn’t “look Jamaican enough” and was given a big spray tan. Then, her heavy Swiss-German accent made it impossible for anyone to know what she was saying. So, in the end, they had to dub over her singing and speaking parts. But, let’s be honest, this isn’t exactly what Honey Ryder was known for, anyway.
She Made The Bikini, Herself
What launched Ursula into fame was the scene in Dr. Nowhere Honey Ryder walked out of the ocean in that famous white bikini with a diving knife strapped to her hip. This one scene made Ursula an overnight icon in 1962. It was an unforgettable movie entrance. And Dr. No ended up doing much better than first anticipated. She began to get movie offers handed to her hand over fist.
And many don’t realize that Ursula made that bikini herself! She was offered many different bikinis when she got to set, but she didn’t like any of them. So she got to work and whipped the perfect one! That bikini ended up going up for sale at a James Bond auction, along with the 1965 Aston Martin DB5 driven in GoldenEye. Ursula’s bikini sold for £41,125, that’s over $46,000!
She Made a Movie With Elvis
The next film Ursula took on after Dr. No was Fun in Acapulco where she starred alongside Elvis Presley. Ursula was hesitant to do the movie at first, due to some gossip she had heard about the King of Rock and Roll. But, to be fair, Elvis was just as intimidated by her.
It is said that he wouldn’t take his shirt off for the movie because of her. Elvis wanted to get back together with his first love and wouldn’t even let himself be alone in the same room with her. Eventually, Ursula and Elvis warmed up to each other and went on to become lifelong friends, even if this did churn the rumor mill.
She Was Making Movies Left and Right
Ursula also filmed the movie 4 for Texas with Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Anita Ekberg while she filmed Fun in Acapulco.
During her screen tests for 4 for Texas, Ursula auditioned in the nude. The plan was to make that character much steamier. But censors wouldn’t allow it, and she appeared totally clothed in the movie. Next, Ursula filmed Once Before I Die with John Derek, her husband, in 1964. The two had been a couple for seven years at this point.
Her Marriage Dissolved On Set
Though they had been together for several years, Ursula and Derek’s relationship began to deteriorate on the set of Once Before I Die. Rumors about Ursula having an affair with Ron Ely, another actor in the movie, began to spread and got to Derek. To this day, Ursula has never confirmed or denied the rumor.
He got so mad that he kicked Ursula out of his home in the summer of 1965. After this, Ursula decided to head to England. That year, Ursula also shot racy photos that ended up in Playboy magazine. When asked why she did them, she simply answered, “because I’m beautiful.” She went on to do seven more shoots for them over the next 15 years.
She Moved On
In England, Ursula landed the leading role of an immortal queen in the film She. It was a successful movie, but she ended up hating it as she said she was “forced” to make the movie. But she did say, “The only thing I adored were the costumes. I was just lucky to look good in it because they photographed me beautifully."
While on the set of She, she met her next love in the form of actor John Richardson. Their relationship began quickly and since Ursula had not completely divorced Derek yet, their relationship made quite a stir. However, it did not last long and she lost interest in him after just a few months.
Her Love Life Was Becoming A Pattern
The same year she filmed She, Ursula filmed an Italian science-fiction movie called The 10th Victim. During filming, you guessed it, she started dating Marcello Mastroianni, her co-star. Their movie was very successful, but, as a couple, they were not. Again, Ursula lost interest and left Mastroianni after a few months.
Not one to let love get her down, Ursula went to Paris to film the movie Up to His Ears in 1965. There, she fell in love with her co-star (again). But this time, Jean-Paul Belmondo gave her the push she needed to finally finalize her divorce from Derek. Ursula even said Belmondo was “the love of her life.”
She was in another James Bond movie
When 1967 rolled around, Ursula was offered a part in another Jame Bond movie, Casino Royale. This time, she played Vesper Lynd.
She was paid a whopping £200,000 for the movie, but the movie studio was happy to do it. Director Val Guest said she was “universally loved by everyone in [the] studio.” Casino Royale became a huge success at the box office but Ursula soon slowed down with the number of movies she was making, choosing to take on more unique roles.
She Took On Roles That Were Different
The next movies Ursula made were not your typical leading lady parts for the era. She defied the expectations of a “soft and submissive” female lead.
Instead, she played the most sultry roles she could find, starting with Lady Britt Dorset in Perfect Friday in 1970 and a brother worker named Cristina in Red Sun in 1971. Both of these roles allowed Ursula to show off her… assets. Due to her level of undress in these movies, she also earned the moniker of “Ursula Undress.”
Her Relationships Were Becoming More Questionable
In 1972, Ursula’s seven-year-long relationship with Belmondo soured. Instead of getting caught up in heartbreak, Ursula went back to Hollywood and worked through her pain, briefly entering into a fling with actor Ryan O’Neal. O’Neal was perhaps the worst of all her partners. He had a reputation for being a womanizer and wouldn’t even send his daughter to her room until Ursula told him, “I don’t want to sleep with you while your daughter is in the bed.”
And, much like her most recent relationships, she met her next lover on the set of the Italian movie Stateline Motel. Fabio Testi was, you guessed it, her co-star. Their relationship lasted four years. Looking back on all her past relationships, she said that she still loved all of them in a deep, platonic way, and thought it would be fun for them all to live in one big house together.
She Won't Change to Meet Hollywood's Needs
At this point, Hollywood was changing and many actresses started to ditch their old roles to play “real” women instead. But Ursula wouldn’t change. She continued to play leading ladies that were gorgeous and seductive. However, this wasn’t what audiences wanted to see anymore. They wanted women that did more than flaunt their beauty. And between Ursula not taking on complex roles and the disaster of her next several movies, her career started to spiral.
Her next movie was Slave of the Cannibal God in 1978. She appeared in several graphic scenes and was once filmed completely nude. Plus, the film had several disturbing animal cruelty scenes. While the movie went on to become a cult classic, it was banned entirely in the UK at the time.
She Was Aphrodite, Literally
The next year, Ursula played the sultry character of Louise de La Valliére, the mistress of King Louis XIV of France. She wore eight different costumes, all of them showing off her beauty. But critics weren’t impressed. The movie received bland reviews
Her next movie was the classic Clash of the Titans where she naturally played the goddess of beauty and love, Aphrodite. She had top-billing, but only said one line in the entire movie. But that was enough for her to fall in love with yet another co-star.
She Had A Son And Began to Settle Down
Ursula started dating the star of Clash of the Titans, Harry Hamlin while filming the movie. But there was a large age gap between the two- 16 years to be exact! She soon became pregnant and was encouraged by Hamlin to have the baby at 44 years young. Their son, Dimitri Alexander Hamlin, was born on May 19, 1980. Shortly after, Ursula and Hamlin were engaged.
If her career had been floundering before, it nearly died after she gave birth. Until Dimitri was born, she was someone “who up until then refused even the responsibility of pets.” She took on roles much less frequently, only taking small parts in television series in the 80s.
She Made Some Even More Questionable Decisions
Unfortunately, Ursula’s relationship with Hamlin wasn’t meant to be. She described herself as “possessive” of him and this led to their eventual demise. 3 years after the birth of Dimitri, the couple called it quits in 1983. Hamlin moved on while Ursula continued working while taking care of her son and adding to the long list of lovers she never committed to.
Under another wild string of events, she began dating Fausto Fagone in 1986. He was a 20-year-old student studying economics in college while Ursula was already 50 years old. The age gap of 30 years was frowned upon, making Fagone’s parents enraged. And ever since they ended things in 1991, Ursula has kept her love life quiet.
She Misses Sean Connery
Nowadays, Ursula is basically retired from acting, only making a few appearances in the media here and there. She likes to split her time between her homes in Switzerland and Rome.
However, she took Sean Connery’s death in 2020 as a personal blow. She described him as “a fabulous actor,” “loyal,” and “a great friend.” She also said there would never be anyone quite like Connery. She said, “For me, Sean is not dead, he will always be alive, with me forever.”
Charlotte Beaudry : Get Drunk
au Wiels, Centre d'Art Contemporain, 354, Avenue Van Volxem, 1190 Bruxelles.
Du 28 mai au 14 août 2011.
Vernissage : vendredi 27 mai 2011.
All I wanna do is get drunk
I prefer the punk to the funk
Losing my time in a bar
That's not the way to be a star
But I don't care
I'm unaware when I get drunk *
Get drunk : c'est par ce titre aux accents punkoïdes que Charlotte Beaudry nous convie sans détour à cette exposition réunissant une trentaine d’oeuvres au premier étage du Wiels.
Issue d'une jeune génération d'artistes contemporains s'exprimant par la peinture et le dessin, Charlotte Beaudry explore depuis une dizaine d'années un large répertoire figuratif traversé simultanément par des questions liées à la révélation et à la dissimulation de la réalité représentée.
Dans un premier ensemble de grands dessins, l’artiste décline la gestualité d'une adolescente semblant éprouver à la fois les limites de l'espace pictural et de son propre corps. Tiraillée entre désir et frustration, elle incarne ce mélange de rage et de vulnérabilité propre à sa jeunesse, coincée entre deux âges. Le visage caché derrière sa chevelure ou dans un brouillard de peinture bombée, elle traduit le trouble d’une identité encore incertaine, d’un corps inachevé.
Le projet « Mademoiselle Nineteen » poursuit cette réflexion sur le portrait. Il s’articule autour d’une interview dans laquelle Charlotte Beaudry réinterprète une scène du film « Masculin Féminin » de Jean-Luc Godard (1966). Dans cette séquence marquante, Paul (Jean-Pierre Léaud) interroge une jeune fille dans les locaux du magazine « Mademoiselle Age Tendre » pour le compte d’un institut de sondage. Pour Mademoiselle Nineteen, à la demande de l’artiste, cinq filles ont été soumises au questionnaire du film sous le micro d’un acteur prétendument engagé pour réaliser un sondage d’opinion. Plus de quarante ans après, la similitude de leurs réponses est étonnante.
L'ensemble suivant donne un bel aperçu de la diversité des sujets abordés dans le travail de Charlotte Beaudry. S'agissant le plus souvent d'objets familiers (cabane, couteaux, masque, sacs, mobilier urbain...) isolés de leur contexte ou amplifiés dans des proportions incongrues, leur représentation catégorique et tranchante annule finalement toute narration, pour intensifier l'écart entre le réel et sa représentation peinte.
Un portrait de dos, un grand masque, une cible percée de trous ou une porte de garage suggèrent un « arrière de l’image », un désir de réversibilité provoqué puis aussitôt contrarié par l'artiste. Un rapport dynamique est établi avec le spectateur, frustré de ne pouvoir s’avancer plus loin dans l’image, la manipuler ou la contourner pour découvrir ce qu’elle cache.
Il en va de même des sacs à mains entrouverts sur un fragment d’intimité. Leurs proportions gigantesques en font tour à tour des bouches monstrueuses dont la béance semble vouloir nous happer, ou des cocons où l’on rêverait de pouvoir se lover. Cette perception ambiguë et changeante à mesure que l’on s’approche de la toile, de même que ses connotations sexuelles évidentes, déroutent et fascinent à la fois.
On retrouve cette ambivalence dans la plupart des oeuvres de Charlotte Beaudry. En témoigne encore le « Slip (orange) » agrandi à outrance, dont les formes galbées et la couleur flash évoquent irrésistiblement la carrosserie rutilante d’une voiture de sport. Si ce caleçon n’a ni jambes ni buste, il montre cependant bien davantage qu’il ne cache et concentre l’attention du spectateur précisément sur l’objet qu’il est sensé dissimuler. Allusion à l’hypocrisie médiatique ambiante en matière de sexualité ? Ou tentative effrontée de réduire l’homme à sa plus simple expression, égratignant au passage l’importance exagérée que les mâles accordent à leurs attributs ? Non dépourvue de tendresse, cette peinture tient pourtant davantage du clin d’oeil que de la provocation amère et revancharde, caractéristique d’un certain féminisme.
Empreinte de tension manifeste, la peinture de Charlotte Beaudry est aussi transcendée par une énergie pulsionnelle et une dérision qui lui donnent cette incroyable efficacité. Une ironie espiègle que l’on retrouve dans « Blind Gold », un poster tiré à trois mille exemplaires et mis librement à disposition des visiteurs. Il représente une paire de Ray-Ban bombée à la peinture dorée, symbole du luxe de pacotille d’une certaine culture populaire bling-bling.
Si les grandes toiles invitent à une réflexion sur notre rapport à l’image peinte en tant que traduction du réel, elles questionnent aussi notre place physique par rapport à la peinture et suscitent un dialogue mental autant que corporel. Tout l’oeuvre de Charlotte Beaudry est traversée par cette notion de « distance », propre et figurée, qui fait de ses images des icônes du quotidien, des fragments de réalité, à la fois proches et étranges.
Elles génèrent en nous une sensation paradoxale : tour à tour invitation à un être-au-monde viscéral et rageur, ou à un repli réconfortant aux confins de l’enfance qui s’éloigne.
Charlotte Beaudry est née à Huy (Belgique) en 1968. Elle vit et travaille à Bruxelles.
En 2005, elle remporte le prix de peinture Georges Collignon au Mamac (Liège). En 2007, elle obtient la bourse CERA du programme "Partners in Art". En 2008, elle est nominée en 2008 pour le Prix Ariane de Rothschild. Ses oeuvres figurent aujourd'hui parmi d'importantes collections internationales.
Wiels, Centre d'Art Contemporain
Avenue Van Volxem, 354
1190 Bruxelles.
* "Get Drunk" est le titre d'une chanson de l'album "Dot" (2006) du groupe hutois Showstar, dont la pochette mettait à l'honneur plusieurs images de Charlotte Beaudry. Showstar a par ailleurs joué lors des vernissages des expositions de Charlotte Beaudry à la galerie aliceday (Bruxelles) en 2006 et au STUK (Leuven) en 2008.
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almost done with the giant thing. Family is painting in the dining room today too. Lovin it.
A snowy scene as two horses huddle together in the corner of their frozen field - Dyserth nr. Prestatyn
Les Gets is a small, friendly resort that offers a good mix of slopes in its own right. However, Les Gets is part of the Portes du Soleil ski area (in the Haute Savoie region) which is huge. This will keep everyone happy and you can village hop for lunch. In total, there are over 650 km of piste to explore. However, it must be noted that this area lies on the fringe of the Alps at a lower elevation than most resorts. As a consequence, snow cannot be guaranteed and the season is somewhat shorter. The town is partly car free and traditional in style. There are plenty of places to eat and drink and the party can continue late into the night, if desired. Les Gets has 66 groomed trails that can be accessed by using the 52 lifts; 5 of these are gondolas. There is a terrain park at Les Gets and cross country skiing over 12 kms.
The planned diversions due to East Coast engineering work in Scotland, were thrown into chaos on 4 October 2014 after heavy rain caused a landslip and blocked the Tyne Valley line near Brampton. Here one of the East Coast HSTs to be halted by the blockage retreats from the area, running wrong line to the crossover at Low Row where it will gain the up line back to Newcastle. 43295 is now leading the set with 43299 at the rear.
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Now we're getting to the good stuff. I love the way that this shot turned out. I was wrapping up that day's excursion. I had shot many photos and I was ready for the return home. That's when I noticed that the evening light had finally settled enough to give the sky that husky bruised color that shoots so well. I was going to just leave it, though, I had taken enough photos, but then I saw this heron.
Silhouetted against the water, it was simply a case of knowing that a photo must be taken. Knowing that I had to release that shutter over and over again until I got this one shot. This photo, I realized, is what I was looking for that day.
I have a few more of this scene coming, including my favorite of that day. I hope that you'll enjoy them all!
This was the first time I had seen and photographed these guys.
This shot was taken with the 500mm and a Canon 1.4x teleconverter on a Wimberley head & Gitzo tripod set up. Amazing stuff.
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