Ursula Thiess Profile

Ursula Thiess

15 May 26	is born in Hamburg, Germany
41	has to leave school for a year of compulsory farm labor, which is required by the Nazi government
?	marries German director Georg Thiess. He's about 11 years her senior.
44	gives birth to her daughter Manuela
May 45	is bombed out of her home in Hamburg and has to flee from the advancing Russian troops
4 June 45	gives birth to her son Michael
Fall 50	lands a modeling job with Heute magazine in Munich and plays at the Kammerspiele Theater. She was unhappily married to German director Georg Thiess.
51	while making her screen tests, she stays at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
June 51	gets an option from RKO and a trip to the U.S. for screen tests
52	attends all parties in Hollywood dateless
	is voted "Most Promising Star of 1952" by Modern Screen
24 April 52 / 53	meets actor Robert Taylor, the ex of Barbara Stanwyck, on a studio-arranged date
?	is off to India for the filming of Monsoon. She stays at the Taj Mahal Hotel, and director Rod Amateau becomes a lifelong friend.
August 52	will star in the upcoming Size 12
53	receives the Golden Globe Award
	dates Taylor off and on, but he won’t make a commitment
May 53	was left alone by Taylor at the opening of The Sands in Las Vegas. In the meantime, he was out with Yvonne De Carlo, who would like him to do it more often.
June 53	is to be seen in Son of Sinbad
November 53	if Robert Taylor won't marry her until New Year's, they won't marry at all, because she's tired of waiting
December 53	plans to bring her two kiddies from Berlin to Hollywood. There are rumors Robert Taylor will now wed her.
54	becomes good friends with co-star Robert Stack during the filming of The Iron Glove
	because of her beauty, she becomes the object of Arlene Dahl’s jealousy during the filming of Bengal Brigade
January 54	she will remain in Hollywood while Taylor returns to England soon for the filming of Knights of the Round Table
March 54	lovely ballerina Ludmilla Tcherina breaks up with Robert Taylor before he breaks up with Ursula
4 May 54	marries Robert Taylor aboard a boat on Jackson Lake, Wyoming
?	films The Americano on location in Brazil and in Riverside, California
	gets her driving license
	has a social life with the David Nivens, Ray Milland, George Sanders, Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding, Lita Baron and Rory Calhoun, Peggy Moran and Henry Koster, and Lana Turner and Lex Barker
	Clark Gable gives her shooting lessons
	pregnant, she accompanies Taylor to England for the filming of Quentin Durward. They stay at the Dorchester Hotel in London.
May 55	is one of only three stars under contract by RKO
Mid-55	her son Terrence is born
56	films Bandido in Mexico City and on location in Tepoztian. Co-star Gilbert Roland takes her out and tells her all about bullfighting.
August 56	Robert Taylor refuses to pose for publicity pictures with her
	meets Taylor and the Bob Mitchums in Acapulco
	she and Taylor are guests of honor at a party thrown at Romanoff’s, Los Angeles, by the Mitchums. A drunken and uninvited Barbara Stanwyck tries to crash the party, looking for "Taylor and his German broad"
April 58	goes with her husband to the High Sierras for The Law and Jack Wade
16 August 59	her daughter Theresa is born
8 June 69	her marriage ends with Taylor's death from cancer in Santa Monica
c. May 69	her son Michael Thiess dies at age 23 from a drug overdose two weeks before Taylor
11 June 69	attends Taylor’s funeral services at the Church of the Recessional in Glendale, California. Governor Ronald Reagan delivers the eulogy. With the governor is his wife, Nancy Reagan.
c. 73	marries Marshall Schacker, an international film distributor, and spends her time between Hawaii and Los Angeles
86	becomes the widow of Schacker
03	publishes But I Have Promises to Keep... My Life Before, With & After Robert Taylor
	her address is 1940 Bel Road, Los Angeles, CA 90077
19 June 10	dies at age 86 in an assisted living care facility in Burbank. She is survived by three of her four children, Manuela, Terry, and Tessa.
?	is interred alongside Robert Taylor and her son Michael at the Garden of Honor, Columbarium of the Evening Star, Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California

Sources: Life, Picture Show Who's Who on the Screen, Made in Heaven by Victoria Houseman, Photoplay, Modern Screen, Screen, Screenland, Motion Picture, Silver Screen, "Ursula Thiess - The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" by Michael Fitzgerald in Classic Images
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