The Independent - London, January 21st, 2000
WITHOUT FEAR or favour, MGM's publicity department called Hedy Lamarr "the most beautiful woman in the world". Cinemagoers might have argued who was second - Vivien Leigh or Ingrid Bergman or Rita Hayworth - but they did not dispute MGM's claim. Lamarr had flawless features, a long black mane and eyes which suggested that she was not really of this world - neither diabolic nor angelic, but, because of her luscious appearance, dangerous rather than saintly.
She was not in the first flush of youth, or even popularity, when Cecil B. DeMille came to make Samson and Delilah, but by common consent ...
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