URSULA ANDRESS OSTIA BEACH ROME ' 50s 2 1/4 CAMERA NEGATIVE PETER BASCH
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:63852718 | Industry: Movies |
| Original/Reproduction: Original | Object Type: camera negative |
| Size: 2.25" |
PETER BASCH PHOTOGRAPHY PROVENANCE: The image offered in this listing comes directly from the personal archived library of PETER BASCH who was a celebrity and artistic nude Playboy photographer during the 1940s through the 1970s. Mr. Basch was a master in glamour and nude fine art photography having authored many books on the subject. In addition to photographer signed and/or stamped photographic images, we are only offering 100% guaranteed original camera images (B&W negatives and color tr...ansparencies) which have been stored away since he produced his first work. Many of the original camera film images (negatives and transparencies) have never been seen before and are one of a kind. Others have been published in the world's top celebrity and men's magazines. The rediscovery of the mastery of Peter Basch will reveal his respect and passion for photographing the world's top celebrities and most beautiful women such as BETTIE PAGE, JAYNE MANSFIELD, GRACE KELLY, SOPHIA LOREN, MARLON BRANDO, JANE FONDA, BRIGITTE BARDOT, ANITA EKBERG, FEDERICO FELLINI, URSULA ANDRESS, and many more. Please see a bio and additional notes on Peter Basch below.DESCRIPTION: Vintage 1950s original 2 1/4" camera negative of actress URSULA ANDRESS swimming at Ostia Beach in Rome, taken by the photographer PETER BASCH and from his personal archive.
Sequence number 278 handwritten by the photographer in the lower border.
This is the original negative (film) that was in the camera at the time of the photo shoot and is therefore the only one of its kind in existence. (Please note this listing is for a camera negative, not a photograph. The scan is of its positive view.)RIGHTS: The PETER BASCH FAMILY TRUST is the sole and exclusive copyright owner of the listed image(s). No rights are included in this offering. - SIZE: 2 1/4"- TONE: B&W- CONDITION: Fine, with some light spots._______________________________________________________________ CONDITION GRADING Excellent: Very nearly pristine, with no more than trivial flaws. Very Fine: One or two minor defects and only the slightest handling wear. Fine: Minor flaws, with slight handling or surface flaws. Very Good: Slight scuffing, rippling, minor surface impressions. Good: Visibly used with small areas of wear, which may include surface impressions and spotting. Fair: Visibly damaged with extensive wear. SHIPPING TERMS - I ship all items using, what I call, triple protection packing. The photos are inserted into a display bag with a white board, then packed in between thick packaging boards and lastly wrapped with plastic film for weather protection before being placed into the shipping envelope. - The shipping cost for U.S. shipments includes USPS "Delivery Confirmation" tracking. - I am happy to combine multiple wins at no additional cost. Please wait for me to issue the invoice before making payment. PAYMENT TERMS - Please pay within three (3) days of purchase. - I reserve the right to re-list the item(s) if payment is not received within seven (7) days. eBay SALES TAX COLLECTION - In November 2019, eBay and PayPal changed the way taxes are collected and remitted.
When a buyer purchases an item on eBay, and the ship to address is one of the states listed below, eBay will calculate and add the applicable sales tax at checkout. The buyer will pay both the cost of the item along with the sales tax. eBay will collect and remit the tax.
Sellers are not able to opt out of selling items into the states listed above or opt out of eBay automatically collecting sales tax.
Based on applicable tax laws, eBay will calculate, collect, and remit sales tax on behalf of sellers for items shipped to customers in the following states: AL, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, ID, IL, IN, IA, KY, ME, MD, MA, MN, NE, NV, NJ, NM, NY, ND, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, and WY. CUSTOMER SERVICE - I will respond to all inquiries within 24 hours. ________________________________________________________________ PETER BASCH (1921-2004) was a German/American glamour photographer who captured thousands of images of the most prominent stars of the 50s and 60s. Peter Basch was born in Berlin, Germany, the only child of Felix Basch and Grete Basch-Freund, both prominent theater and film personalities of the German-speaking world. In 1933 the family came to New York due to fears of rising anti-Jewish sentiment and laws in Germany. The family had US citizenship because Felix's father, Arthur Basch, was a wine trader who lived in San Francisco. After moving back to Germany, Arthur Basch kept his American citizenship, and passed it to his children and, thence, to his grandchildren. When the Basch family arrived in New York in 1933, they opened a restaurant on Central Park South in the Navarro Hotel. The restaurant, Gretel's Viennese, became a hangout for the Austrian expatriate community. Peter Basch had his first job there as a waiter. While in New York, Basch attended the De Witt Clinton High School. The family moved to Los Angeles to assist in Basch's father's career, during which time Basch went to school in England. Upon returning to the United States, Basch joined the Army. He was mobilized in the US Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit, where he worked as a script boy. After the war, he started attending UCLA and started taking photographs of young starlets working with other photographers and film studios. His mother asked him to join her back in New York after she and his father decided that Basch should be a photographer and they obtained a photography studio for their son. For over twenty years, Peter Basch had a successful career as a magazine photographer. He was known for his images of celebrities, artists, dancers, actors, starlets, and glamour-girls in America and Europe. His photos appeared in many major magazines such as Life, Look and Playboy.The Peter Basch Collection includes iconic images of all the major midcentury stars, from Europe and America. These masterful images are a window onto a time we cannot forget, when movie stars stepped out of the studio’s control, and we began to see these larger-than-life performers as full, three-dimensional personalities. Basch’s images capture the heart and spirit of these glamorous performers. Taking pictures in natural light, out in the world, we see these stars as full human beings, not the carefully made-up, studio-approved icons of oldfashioned Hollywood. Basch was able to capture the moments of a human being’s spirit, their mercurial reactions, all the facets that made these magnetic individuals the stars they were. Basch authored and co-authored a number of books containing his photographs including: Candid Photography (1958 with Peter Gowland Basch and Don Ornitz Basch) Peter Basch's Glamour Photography (A Fawcett How-To Book) (1958) Peter Basch photographs beauties of the world (1958) Camera in Rome (1963 with Nathan and Simon Basch) Peter Basch Photographs 100 Famous Beauties (1965) The nude as form & figure (1966) Put a Girl in Your Pocket: The Artful Camera of Peter Basch (1969) Peter Basch's Guide to Figure Photography (1975 with Jack Rey) Thoughts on Peter Basch by his daughter: "My Father, Peter Basch, saw. He looked and he saw. He taught me to see. He taught me to listen and hear. We used to play a game when I was little. He’d say, Michele, look at the street then look at me, what did you see? I would list the cars, red, black, navy; people, fat, tall, thin; children, parents; trees and plants. He would add the detail. A blue car with New York plates, a black car with New Jersey plates. The people were not just tall or small, thin or fat, they wore coats or sweaters, they laughed or were sad. The trees had leaves, were close together, the green was dark, vivid, the sun playing with the shadow. My Father saw. He captured in his mind and on film the unexpected moment in time, the interaction between two people, the look, the thought, the breath that punctuated the decision. My Father was one of the great romantics. He had a true love and appreciation of beauty in its purest form. We would talk about BEAUTY and her differences: natural, Hollywood, young, old and the beauty of communication, interaction, the Beauty of the moment. He recorded the breath in time on film: two ladies in Paris reading the paper, a Dachshund looking around the corner, a chair in front of the Eiffel Tower. My Father saw the thought and seized it for posterity. My Father understood the language light speaks to shadow. He showed me how the sun plays with dark. His favorite moment was at Sunrise when the shadows were long and soft. He saw every hue from white to black and everything in between. He understood the language, taught and published books on Light and Shadow, Form and Figure. I traveled through Europe with my Father. I was his assistant! And proud of it! I was the camera person! Changed the film, made sure the lens was clean, stood in during special poses, helped in the dark room, retouched to refine and perfect. I loved watching him talk and listen. He listened to Jane Fonda, Ursula Andress, Brigit Bardot, Fellini, Mastroiani and so many more. He listened and recorded the answer, the thought, that moment of indecision, realization and Seduction." Film Assignments: 8½ - Fellini Jules et Jim - Truffaut Bijoutiers du Clair de Lune - Vadim The Vice and the Virtue - Vadim Fearless Vampire Killers - Polanski Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - De Sica Une Femme Est Une Femme Goddard Fear - Rosselini Cartouche - De Broca Giant - Stevens Anne Frank - Stevens Guys and Dolls - Mankiewicz Horse Soldiers - Ford Majority of One - Leroy Walk on the Wild Side - Dmytryk Wild in the Streets - Spear Leonidas - Matte The Day the Fish Came Out - Cocayannis The Pawnbroker - Lumet La Verite - Clouzot La Loi Sacree - Pabst Baby Doll - Kazan Summertime - Lean The 13 Most Beautiful Girls - Warhol The Three Sisters - Bogart Francis of Assissi - Curtiz The Swimmer Perry Cape Fear The Man Who Had Power Over Women The Spy With The Cold Nose Winnetou Mata Hari Exhibitions: 2002 Jewish Museum - Vienna Austria “Vom Grossvater vertrieben” 2002 LEICA Gallery, NYC Portrait of Al Hirschfeld 2001 National Portrait Gallery -- London Dame Elizabeth (Taylor) 2001 Fahey-Klein Gallery, LA Group Show/Great Directors 2001 Museum/City of New York, Al Hirschfeld Exhibit 2000 Museum of Modern Art, NY, Brigitte Bardot 1999 Vienna, Austria – “übersee” 1999 Stadt Museum, Munich, Germany “TWEN” exhibit 1997 Museum of the Moving Image – Grace Kelly 1996 Staley Wise Gallery, NY “Shooting Stars” – one man show 1980s Museum of Modern Art, NY, Sophia Loren LA County Museum "Masters of Starlight" (subsequently traveled to Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan) Stadt Museum, Munich, Germany “AKT” (nudes) __________________________________________________________________URSULA ANDRESS BIO Ursula Andress (born 19 March 1936) is a Swiss actress and sex symbol of the 1960s. She is known for her role as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond movie, Dr. No (1962), for which she won a Golden Globe. She later starred as Vesper Lynd in the Bond-parody Casino Royale (1967).Andress was born in Ostermundigen, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, the daughter of Anna, who was Swiss, and Rolf Andress, a Germandiplomat who was expelled from Switzerland for political reasons. He disappeared during World War II.Andress became famous as Honey Ryder, a shell diver and James Bond's object of desire in Dr. No (1962), the first Bond movie. In a well-known scene, she rises out of the Caribbean Sea in a white bikini. The scene made Andress the "quintessential" Bond girl, and is now considered iconic. "My entrance in the film wearing the bikini on that beautiful beach made me world famous as 'the Bond girl'", she said, and the bikini from this "classic moment in cinema and Bond history" sold at auction in 2001 for £41, 125 ($59, 755) including commissions and tax. In 2003, in a UK Survey by Channel 4, her entrance in Dr. No was voted #1 in "the 100 Greatest Sexy Moments".Andress won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year in 1964 for her performance in Dr. No. Due to her heavy Swiss-German accent, her character's voice was provided by Nikki van der Zyl, while the calypso was sung by Diana Coupland. In 1965, she posed nude for Playboy. When asked why she had agreed to do the Playboy shoot she replied coolly, "Because I'm beautiful."Andress co-starred with Elvis Presley in the 1963 musical film, Fun in Acapulco, with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in 4 for Texas(1963), opposite Marcello Mastroianni in The 10th Victim (1965), alongside John Richardson in She (1965), and as the countess in The Blue Max (1966). She also appeared in the Bond satire Casino Royale (1967) as Vesper Lynd, an occasional spy who persuades Evelyn Tremble, as played by Peter Sellers, to carry out a mission. Her heavy accent was dubbed over in Dr. No, but she used her own voice in Casino Royale.In 1967, Andress turned down the role of Matilda in the British-thriller Berserk!, a role that eventually went to English actress, Diana Dors. In 1981's Clash of the Titans she co-starred with Laurence Olivier. In 1995, Andress was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars in film history."After her son's birth, Andress scaled back her career, which focused mostly on European TV and films.In 1957, Andress married actor/director, John Derek; they divorced in 1966. Andress dated many of Hollywood's leading men, including co-stars Marlon Brando, and James Dean. One of her longest affairs was with Jean-Paul Belmondo while he was still married to his first wife. In 1980, she had a son, Dimitri, with American actor Harry Hamlin, her co-star in the film Clash of the Titans.On 18 May 2006, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Swiss Consulate General in Scotland, Ursula Andress celebrated her 70th birthday on board the Royal Yacht Britannia in Edinburgh in the presence of an international crowd of celebrities. Film Year Role Notes Un americano a Roma 1954 Unknown La catena dell'odio 1955 Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova 1955 Dr. No 1962 Honey Ryder Fun in Acapulco 1963 Marguerita Dauphin 4 for Texas 1963 Maxine Richter Once Before I Die 1965 Alex Nightmare in the Sun 1965 Wife She 1965 Ayesha What's New Pussycat? 1965 Rita Les Tribulations d'un chinois en Chine 1965 Alexandrine Pinardel The 10th Victim 1965 Caroline Meredith The Blue Max 1966 Countess Kaeti von Klugermann Casino Royale 1967 Vesper Lynd/007 Le dolci signore 1968 Norma The Southern Star 1969 Erica Kramer Perfect Friday 1970 Britt Red Sun 1971 Cristina Five Against Capricorn 1972 L'ultima chance 1973 Michelle Nolton Colpo in canna 1974 Nora Green L'infermiera 1975 Anna Africa Express 1975 Madeleine Cooper Le avventure e gli amori di Scaramouche 1975 Josephine De Beauharnais Safari Express 1976 Miriam Spogliamoci così senza pudor 1976 English title: Sex With a Smile II La montagna del dio cannibale 1978 Susan Stevenson English title: The Mountain of the Cannibal God Doppio delitto 1978 Principessa Dell'Orso English title: Double Murder The Fifth Musketeer 1979 Louise de la Vallière Letti selvaggi 1979 The Stroller and the Widow English title: Tigers in Lipstick Clash of the Titans 1981 Aphrodite Red Bells 1982 Mabel Dodge Manimal 1983 Karen TV series Liberté, égalité, choucroute 1985 Marie-Antoinette Peter the Great 1986 Athalie TV series Falcon Crest 1987–88 Madame Malec TV series Klassäzämekunft 1988 Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders 1989 Betty Starr TV movie Il Professore – Diva 1989 Susy Kaminski TV Fantaghirò 3 1993 Xellesia TV series Fantaghirò 4 1994 Xellesia TV series Alles gelogen 1996 Cremaster 5 1997 Queen of Chain Vogelpredigt, Die 2005 courtesy of Wikipedia
Sequence number 278 handwritten by the photographer in the lower border.
This is the original negative (film) that was in the camera at the time of the photo shoot and is therefore the only one of its kind in existence. (Please note this listing is for a camera negative, not a photograph. The scan is of its positive view.)RIGHTS: The PETER BASCH FAMILY TRUST is the sole and exclusive copyright owner of the listed image(s). No rights are included in this offering. - SIZE: 2 1/4"- TONE: B&W- CONDITION: Fine, with some light spots._______________________________________________________________ CONDITION GRADING Excellent: Very nearly pristine, with no more than trivial flaws. Very Fine: One or two minor defects and only the slightest handling wear. Fine: Minor flaws, with slight handling or surface flaws. Very Good: Slight scuffing, rippling, minor surface impressions. Good: Visibly used with small areas of wear, which may include surface impressions and spotting. Fair: Visibly damaged with extensive wear. SHIPPING TERMS - I ship all items using, what I call, triple protection packing. The photos are inserted into a display bag with a white board, then packed in between thick packaging boards and lastly wrapped with plastic film for weather protection before being placed into the shipping envelope. - The shipping cost for U.S. shipments includes USPS "Delivery Confirmation" tracking. - I am happy to combine multiple wins at no additional cost. Please wait for me to issue the invoice before making payment. PAYMENT TERMS - Please pay within three (3) days of purchase. - I reserve the right to re-list the item(s) if payment is not received within seven (7) days. eBay SALES TAX COLLECTION - In November 2019, eBay and PayPal changed the way taxes are collected and remitted.
When a buyer purchases an item on eBay, and the ship to address is one of the states listed below, eBay will calculate and add the applicable sales tax at checkout. The buyer will pay both the cost of the item along with the sales tax. eBay will collect and remit the tax.
Sellers are not able to opt out of selling items into the states listed above or opt out of eBay automatically collecting sales tax.
Based on applicable tax laws, eBay will calculate, collect, and remit sales tax on behalf of sellers for items shipped to customers in the following states: AL, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, ID, IL, IN, IA, KY, ME, MD, MA, MN, NE, NV, NJ, NM, NY, ND, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, and WY. CUSTOMER SERVICE - I will respond to all inquiries within 24 hours. ________________________________________________________________ PETER BASCH (1921-2004) was a German/American glamour photographer who captured thousands of images of the most prominent stars of the 50s and 60s. Peter Basch was born in Berlin, Germany, the only child of Felix Basch and Grete Basch-Freund, both prominent theater and film personalities of the German-speaking world. In 1933 the family came to New York due to fears of rising anti-Jewish sentiment and laws in Germany. The family had US citizenship because Felix's father, Arthur Basch, was a wine trader who lived in San Francisco. After moving back to Germany, Arthur Basch kept his American citizenship, and passed it to his children and, thence, to his grandchildren. When the Basch family arrived in New York in 1933, they opened a restaurant on Central Park South in the Navarro Hotel. The restaurant, Gretel's Viennese, became a hangout for the Austrian expatriate community. Peter Basch had his first job there as a waiter. While in New York, Basch attended the De Witt Clinton High School. The family moved to Los Angeles to assist in Basch's father's career, during which time Basch went to school in England. Upon returning to the United States, Basch joined the Army. He was mobilized in the US Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit, where he worked as a script boy. After the war, he started attending UCLA and started taking photographs of young starlets working with other photographers and film studios. His mother asked him to join her back in New York after she and his father decided that Basch should be a photographer and they obtained a photography studio for their son. For over twenty years, Peter Basch had a successful career as a magazine photographer. He was known for his images of celebrities, artists, dancers, actors, starlets, and glamour-girls in America and Europe. His photos appeared in many major magazines such as Life, Look and Playboy.The Peter Basch Collection includes iconic images of all the major midcentury stars, from Europe and America. These masterful images are a window onto a time we cannot forget, when movie stars stepped out of the studio’s control, and we began to see these larger-than-life performers as full, three-dimensional personalities. Basch’s images capture the heart and spirit of these glamorous performers. Taking pictures in natural light, out in the world, we see these stars as full human beings, not the carefully made-up, studio-approved icons of oldfashioned Hollywood. Basch was able to capture the moments of a human being’s spirit, their mercurial reactions, all the facets that made these magnetic individuals the stars they were. Basch authored and co-authored a number of books containing his photographs including: Candid Photography (1958 with Peter Gowland Basch and Don Ornitz Basch) Peter Basch's Glamour Photography (A Fawcett How-To Book) (1958) Peter Basch photographs beauties of the world (1958) Camera in Rome (1963 with Nathan and Simon Basch) Peter Basch Photographs 100 Famous Beauties (1965) The nude as form & figure (1966) Put a Girl in Your Pocket: The Artful Camera of Peter Basch (1969) Peter Basch's Guide to Figure Photography (1975 with Jack Rey) Thoughts on Peter Basch by his daughter: "My Father, Peter Basch, saw. He looked and he saw. He taught me to see. He taught me to listen and hear. We used to play a game when I was little. He’d say, Michele, look at the street then look at me, what did you see? I would list the cars, red, black, navy; people, fat, tall, thin; children, parents; trees and plants. He would add the detail. A blue car with New York plates, a black car with New Jersey plates. The people were not just tall or small, thin or fat, they wore coats or sweaters, they laughed or were sad. The trees had leaves, were close together, the green was dark, vivid, the sun playing with the shadow. My Father saw. He captured in his mind and on film the unexpected moment in time, the interaction between two people, the look, the thought, the breath that punctuated the decision. My Father was one of the great romantics. He had a true love and appreciation of beauty in its purest form. We would talk about BEAUTY and her differences: natural, Hollywood, young, old and the beauty of communication, interaction, the Beauty of the moment. He recorded the breath in time on film: two ladies in Paris reading the paper, a Dachshund looking around the corner, a chair in front of the Eiffel Tower. My Father saw the thought and seized it for posterity. My Father understood the language light speaks to shadow. He showed me how the sun plays with dark. His favorite moment was at Sunrise when the shadows were long and soft. He saw every hue from white to black and everything in between. He understood the language, taught and published books on Light and Shadow, Form and Figure. I traveled through Europe with my Father. I was his assistant! And proud of it! I was the camera person! Changed the film, made sure the lens was clean, stood in during special poses, helped in the dark room, retouched to refine and perfect. I loved watching him talk and listen. He listened to Jane Fonda, Ursula Andress, Brigit Bardot, Fellini, Mastroiani and so many more. He listened and recorded the answer, the thought, that moment of indecision, realization and Seduction." Film Assignments: 8½ - Fellini Jules et Jim - Truffaut Bijoutiers du Clair de Lune - Vadim The Vice and the Virtue - Vadim Fearless Vampire Killers - Polanski Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - De Sica Une Femme Est Une Femme Goddard Fear - Rosselini Cartouche - De Broca Giant - Stevens Anne Frank - Stevens Guys and Dolls - Mankiewicz Horse Soldiers - Ford Majority of One - Leroy Walk on the Wild Side - Dmytryk Wild in the Streets - Spear Leonidas - Matte The Day the Fish Came Out - Cocayannis The Pawnbroker - Lumet La Verite - Clouzot La Loi Sacree - Pabst Baby Doll - Kazan Summertime - Lean The 13 Most Beautiful Girls - Warhol The Three Sisters - Bogart Francis of Assissi - Curtiz The Swimmer Perry Cape Fear The Man Who Had Power Over Women The Spy With The Cold Nose Winnetou Mata Hari Exhibitions: 2002 Jewish Museum - Vienna Austria “Vom Grossvater vertrieben” 2002 LEICA Gallery, NYC Portrait of Al Hirschfeld 2001 National Portrait Gallery -- London Dame Elizabeth (Taylor) 2001 Fahey-Klein Gallery, LA Group Show/Great Directors 2001 Museum/City of New York, Al Hirschfeld Exhibit 2000 Museum of Modern Art, NY, Brigitte Bardot 1999 Vienna, Austria – “übersee” 1999 Stadt Museum, Munich, Germany “TWEN” exhibit 1997 Museum of the Moving Image – Grace Kelly 1996 Staley Wise Gallery, NY “Shooting Stars” – one man show 1980s Museum of Modern Art, NY, Sophia Loren LA County Museum "Masters of Starlight" (subsequently traveled to Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan) Stadt Museum, Munich, Germany “AKT” (nudes) __________________________________________________________________URSULA ANDRESS BIO Ursula Andress (born 19 March 1936) is a Swiss actress and sex symbol of the 1960s. She is known for her role as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond movie, Dr. No (1962), for which she won a Golden Globe. She later starred as Vesper Lynd in the Bond-parody Casino Royale (1967).Andress was born in Ostermundigen, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, the daughter of Anna, who was Swiss, and Rolf Andress, a Germandiplomat who was expelled from Switzerland for political reasons. He disappeared during World War II.Andress became famous as Honey Ryder, a shell diver and James Bond's object of desire in Dr. No (1962), the first Bond movie. In a well-known scene, she rises out of the Caribbean Sea in a white bikini. The scene made Andress the "quintessential" Bond girl, and is now considered iconic. "My entrance in the film wearing the bikini on that beautiful beach made me world famous as 'the Bond girl'", she said, and the bikini from this "classic moment in cinema and Bond history" sold at auction in 2001 for £41, 125 ($59, 755) including commissions and tax. In 2003, in a UK Survey by Channel 4, her entrance in Dr. No was voted #1 in "the 100 Greatest Sexy Moments".Andress won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year in 1964 for her performance in Dr. No. Due to her heavy Swiss-German accent, her character's voice was provided by Nikki van der Zyl, while the calypso was sung by Diana Coupland. In 1965, she posed nude for Playboy. When asked why she had agreed to do the Playboy shoot she replied coolly, "Because I'm beautiful."Andress co-starred with Elvis Presley in the 1963 musical film, Fun in Acapulco, with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in 4 for Texas(1963), opposite Marcello Mastroianni in The 10th Victim (1965), alongside John Richardson in She (1965), and as the countess in The Blue Max (1966). She also appeared in the Bond satire Casino Royale (1967) as Vesper Lynd, an occasional spy who persuades Evelyn Tremble, as played by Peter Sellers, to carry out a mission. Her heavy accent was dubbed over in Dr. No, but she used her own voice in Casino Royale.In 1967, Andress turned down the role of Matilda in the British-thriller Berserk!, a role that eventually went to English actress, Diana Dors. In 1981's Clash of the Titans she co-starred with Laurence Olivier. In 1995, Andress was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars in film history."After her son's birth, Andress scaled back her career, which focused mostly on European TV and films.In 1957, Andress married actor/director, John Derek; they divorced in 1966. Andress dated many of Hollywood's leading men, including co-stars Marlon Brando, and James Dean. One of her longest affairs was with Jean-Paul Belmondo while he was still married to his first wife. In 1980, she had a son, Dimitri, with American actor Harry Hamlin, her co-star in the film Clash of the Titans.On 18 May 2006, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Swiss Consulate General in Scotland, Ursula Andress celebrated her 70th birthday on board the Royal Yacht Britannia in Edinburgh in the presence of an international crowd of celebrities. Film Year Role Notes Un americano a Roma 1954 Unknown La catena dell'odio 1955 Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova 1955 Dr. No 1962 Honey Ryder Fun in Acapulco 1963 Marguerita Dauphin 4 for Texas 1963 Maxine Richter Once Before I Die 1965 Alex Nightmare in the Sun 1965 Wife She 1965 Ayesha What's New Pussycat? 1965 Rita Les Tribulations d'un chinois en Chine 1965 Alexandrine Pinardel The 10th Victim 1965 Caroline Meredith The Blue Max 1966 Countess Kaeti von Klugermann Casino Royale 1967 Vesper Lynd/007 Le dolci signore 1968 Norma The Southern Star 1969 Erica Kramer Perfect Friday 1970 Britt Red Sun 1971 Cristina Five Against Capricorn 1972 L'ultima chance 1973 Michelle Nolton Colpo in canna 1974 Nora Green L'infermiera 1975 Anna Africa Express 1975 Madeleine Cooper Le avventure e gli amori di Scaramouche 1975 Josephine De Beauharnais Safari Express 1976 Miriam Spogliamoci così senza pudor 1976 English title: Sex With a Smile II La montagna del dio cannibale 1978 Susan Stevenson English title: The Mountain of the Cannibal God Doppio delitto 1978 Principessa Dell'Orso English title: Double Murder The Fifth Musketeer 1979 Louise de la Vallière Letti selvaggi 1979 The Stroller and the Widow English title: Tigers in Lipstick Clash of the Titans 1981 Aphrodite Red Bells 1982 Mabel Dodge Manimal 1983 Karen TV series Liberté, égalité, choucroute 1985 Marie-Antoinette Peter the Great 1986 Athalie TV series Falcon Crest 1987–88 Madame Malec TV series Klassäzämekunft 1988 Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders 1989 Betty Starr TV movie Il Professore – Diva 1989 Susy Kaminski TV Fantaghirò 3 1993 Xellesia TV series Fantaghirò 4 1994 Xellesia TV series Alles gelogen 1996 Cremaster 5 1997 Queen of Chain Vogelpredigt, Die 2005 courtesy of Wikipedia
