Clark Gable taught her how to shoot.
After being offered a movie contract with RKO Pictures, she relocated to the United States in 1951, the same year she was featured on the June 4 cover of Life Magazine.
Daughter Manuela (born in 1944), and son Michael (born in 1946) with first husband Georg Thieß.
Did volunteer work at Children's Hospital associated with the University of California at Los Angeles.
Her father was manager of a print shop in her native Hamburg, Germany.
Her husband died less than two weeks after May 26, 1969, when Ursula found her son Michael's dead body.
Her son, Michael, spent a year in jail for trying to poison his father. He committed suicide by overdose in a motel at the age of 24. She found his body.
In 1955, she was one of only three people under long-term contract at RKO.
Received the Golden Key Award from the Foreign Press Association in 1952.
She was widowed twice. Her second husband, Robert Taylor, and her third husband both died of lung cancer.
Son, Terrance ("Terry"), and daughter, Tessa, with Robert Taylor.
Son, Terrance "Terry" (b. June 18, 1955), and daughter, Theresa "Tessa" (born on August 16, 1959), with 2nd husband Taylor.
Underwent surgery for a benign brain tumor in 1979, and recovered.
Voted the year's "Most Promising Star" by Modern Screen Magazine in 1952 along with Marilyn Monroe.
Was a farm laborer before she became an actress.
Was up to co-star with Clark Gable in The King and Four Queens (1956) at Gable's request, but turned it down to focus on her family.
While handsome Robert Taylor was squiring her about town, the press quipped that he was *finally* dating someone prettier than he was (Taylor was previously married to Barbara Stanwyck).