This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Severa (talk | contribs) at 07:18, 12 June 2007 (Thiess is listed in Category:Living people - so the first sentence shouldn't refer to her in past tense. I take it "was" was intended to refer to her retirement from films. Copyedit for clarity.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
Revision as of 07:18, 12 June 2007 by Severa (talk | contribs) (Thiess is listed in Category:Living people - so the first sentence shouldn't refer to her in past tense. I take it "was" was intended to refer to her retirement from films. Copyedit for clarity.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Ursula Thiess (b. 15 May 1924, Hamburg, Germany) is a former German film actress who had a brief Hollywood career in the 1950s.
Thiess began her career on the stage in her native Germany and by dubbing female voices in American films. She left postwar Germany at the urging of Howard Hughes and signed up with RKO. She co-starred with Robert Stack in The Iron Glove (1954), Rock Hudson in Bengal Brigade (1954), Glenn Ford in The Americano (1955), Robert Mitchum in Bandido (1956).
She met and eventually married Robert Taylor in 1954 and virtually abandoned her film career. They had two children.
Ursula Thiess wrote her autobiography, ...but I Have Promises to Keep: My Life before, with and after Robert Taylor (ISBN 0-88739-546-5/ISBN 9781425744786).
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