Linda Christian and Romina Power at the Rome Airport: A Hollywood Tale

With his daughter Romina Power, at the Rome airport in 1966.

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After appearing in several uncredited films, in 1947 he participated in Green Dolphin Street next to Lana Turnerwhich was followed in 1948 Tarzan and the mermaidsthe last film in the Monkey King series starring Johnny Weissmuller. However, the event that would really change her life would not be a movie, but meeting Tyrone Powerwith whom he would begin a romantic relationship, despite the fact that, at that time, the actor was married to the French movie star Annabella.

In fact, Confirmation of Powell’s divorce decree came on the same day as the wedding with Christian, celebrated by the Catholic rite on January 27, 1949 in the church of Santa Francesca Romana in the Italian capital. Once the ceremony was over, they moved to the Vatican where, before starting their honeymoon in Austria, they were received by the Pope Pius XIIwho gave the couple the book Instructions for a Good Christian Family.

Despite the advice of the Holy Father, the marriage, from which two daughters were born, Taryn and Romina Power, ended up divorcing in 1956, at which time Christian combined her career as an actress with a busy love life in which she linked one romance after another. Among them, the one he had with the Spanish aristocrat and racing driver stood out. Alfonso de Portagothe one with the bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín and that of Francisco ‘Baby’ Pignatari, playboy Brazilian who, when he wanted to break off the relationship, placed posters in front of the hotel where the actress was staying that read “Linda go home!”

Wandering Star

“The ocean liner ‘Leonardo da Vinci’, replacement for the missing ‘Andrea Doria’, has arrived at this port [de Las Palmas] with an expedition of five hundred North American tourists on a grand gala cruise through the Mediterranean. The cruise began in New York, with stops in 18 ports, of which were Spanish, Las Palmas and Mallorca, only. Among the passengers of this ship are prominent celebrities, such as Zsa Zsa Gabor, Gloria Swanson, Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward, Linda Christian, etc. The North American tourists, using about a hundred cars in an impressive caravan, went on an excursion and upon returning to the city they were entertained by the authorities with a lunch at a hotel, where the folkloric rondallas offered a recital of typical dances,” he published. The vanguard in 1962.

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