THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD
(Malenotti-20th Century Fox) Y Cert. HE Most Beautiful Woman in the World-for those of you who imagined it was Ava Gardner, or Lana Turner-is none other than our little friend Gina Lollobrigida, and if your taste runs to 17-inch waists I suppose she’s at least a contender for the title. My taste doesn’t run.that way-lI keep wondering whert the waist will collapse under the strain and the effect is un-nerving-but there’s no doubt the silhouette fits neatly enough into the pre1914 milieu of this particular movie Nominally it’s genuine old-time theayter stuff ---chorus-girl "meets Prince, chorus-girl loses Prince, chorus-girl wins Prince. But since the show runs for some 10,000 feet the Prince has to get mislaid a couple of times extra, and there’s room for two other lovers and a crime passione! into the bargain. Of course, the Prince and the others are really supernumerary. The film (as the title suggests) is simply another excursion into torsolatry, but while Gina has enough torso for two (except amidships) it wasn’t enough to keep me from dozing fitfully.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 949, 18 October 1957, Page 17
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183THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 949, 18 October 1957, Page 17
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