page_title: Ursula Andress
section_title: Hollywood
hierarchical_section_title: Ursula Andress / Life and career / Hollywood
caption_attribution_description: Español: Ursula Andress y Vicenç Caraltó
context_page_description: Ursula Andress is a Swiss film and television actress, former model and sex symbol, who has appeared in American, British and Italian films. She is best known for her breakthrough role as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr. No. She later starred as Vesper Lynd in the Bond parody Casino Royale. Her other films include The Southern Star, Fun in Acapulco, She, The 10th Victim, The Blue Max, Perfect Friday, The Sensuous Nurse, Slave of the Cannibal God, The Fifth Musketeer and Clash of the Titans.
context_section_description: Andress arrived in Hollywood in January 1955. In March she was signed to a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures starting at $287 a week.  
  The contract resulted in no acting roles due to her inability to learn English at the time. "I spent most of my time watching old Marlene Dietrich movies," she said.
  Andress did receive some publicity for dating James Dean shortly before the actor's death. She bought herself out of her contract. In March 1956 it was announced she signed to Columbia Pictures. She made no films for them either but was Miss World Trade of 1956.  She stayed in Hollywood because she married John Derek in 1957. In 1959 it was announced she and Derek would star in a film, High Variety, but no movie resulted.
caption: Andress, c. 1971.
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