Hedy Lamarr - How do we love thee let us count the ways.

Hedy Lamarr was, in every sense of the word, a superstar.  She was a groundbreaking actress, a libertine, a bon vivant, a marvelously inteligent woman who during her lifetime had six husbands.

She was the co-inventor of the frquency swithching technology that we still use in mobile phones and wireless internet today.  She was the first actress to appear completely nude in a main stream feature. The film was a Czech production made in 1933 entitled Ecstacy.

Aside from all the groundbreaking pioneering work she did in the area of motion pictures and her work in spread frequency radio she was incredibly hot.  She was once referred to as the World's Most Beautiful Woman and not without cause.

Theda Bara - How do we love thee let us count the ways.

Theda Bara is not a name familiar to most in the 21st Century but had you been around in the 1920s her name was inescapable particularly if you were a fan of the movies.

Theda Bara was a movie star in every sense of the word.  She was a scandal, a sensation and one of the most bankable stars of the silent era.

Yvonne De Carlo - How do we love thee let us count the ways.

Yvonne De Carlo had a career in film and television spanning six decades.  She was the recipient of not one but two stars on the Hollywood Boulevard walk of fame one for her contribution to the film industry and the second for her contribution to television.

De Carlo was reputedly an intimate of Howard Hughes and played opposite some of the most desirable and bankable leading men in the Hollywood of the 1940s and 50s including But Lancaster and Charlton Heston.  She was a glamorous pin up girl who helped raise the morale of troops in the second world war but to most people she will forever be remembered as Lilly Munster in the 1960s monster comedy series.

All of these achievements, appearances and accolades, however fail to underscore the most obvious attribute Yvonne De Carlo possessed in abundance and that is that in her prime, which lasted quite a while, she was smoking hot.