Orlando - The Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr (above), an Austrian banker's daughter billed as "the world's most beautiful woman" when she rose to silver screen stardom in the 1930s and 1940s, has died near Orlando, Florida. She was 86.
She was found dead in bed at her Altamonte Springs home, just north of Orlando, by friends who were unable to reach her by phone.
Ms Lamarr became a sensation before her arrival in Hollywood when she did a nude scene in Ecstasy, one of her first European films. She later starred in Samson and Delilah, one of her biggest hits.