Glamorous, incredible-looking brunette Ursula Thiess began her career in her native Germany on the stage and by dubbing female voices in American films. Married and divorced from director Georg Thieß and with two children in tow, she left postwar Germany at the urging of Howard Hughes and signed up with RKO. Billed as "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" during the initial build-up of her debut movie Monsoon (1952), she failed to ignite the same kind of magic on audiences as Marlene Dietrich once did in her bid for stardom. More beautiful than Dietrich, this exotic beauty remained primarily in rugged adventures where, percentage-wise, the story and focus remained on her he-man co-stars Robert Stack, Glenn Ford and Robert Mitchum, among others. Ursula met and eventually married handsome star Robert Taylor in 1954 and subsequently abandoned her film career. She had two more children by Taylor. Though she seemed quite content to be out of the limelight, she did appear regularly on her husband`s TV series "The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor" (1959) during its first season, playing a police reporter who has a brief affair with Taylor`s character. Following Taylor`s death from lung cancer in 1969, she made a few more film and TV appearances, but little came of them. She married for the third time, to a very wealthy man, and lived in Hawaii during part of that time, but would find herself widowed once more. Most recently, she wrote an autobiography entitled "But I Have Promises to Keep."