Tessa Prendergast
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Marie Therese "Tessa" Prendergast, also known as Tessa Welborn, was a Jamaican actress, fashion designer, businesswoman, and socialite. A renowned beauty and movie starlet in the 1950s, she is best-re
Prendergast, publicity photo, c. 1953
Ursula Andress
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Ursula Andress is a Swiss retired actress who has appeared in American, British, and Italian films. Her breakthrough role was as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr. No. She later s
Tessa Prendergast
…socialite. A renowned beauty and movie starlet in the 1950s, she is best-remembered today as the designer of the taboo-breaking white bikini worn by Ursula Andress in the 1962 film Dr. No. Welborn was born in Kingston, Jamaica on 17 October 1928. Her father, Luke Welborn, was a wealthy plantation owner who died…
Andress in 2004
Andress in the 1950s
Andress circa 1972
Andress in Loaded Guns (1975)