Denise Perrier

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Denise Perrier Lanfranchi (* 1935 ) is a former French model and actress. To this day she is the only French woman who could achieve the title of Miss World .

Life

Victory in the Miss World election and work as an actress

The boarding school student originally wanted to become an archaeologist before taking part in the Miss World election at the age of 18. In the third edition of the beauty pageant on October 19, 1953 in the Lyceum Theater in London , Denise Perrier prevailed against 14 competitors and won the title in front of the Greek Alexandra Ladikou and Marina Papaelia from Egypt. Six referees judged the women according to their appearance, behavior and clothing. Perrier received a prize of $ 1,400 and a silver trophy. When asked about her victory decades later, she gave the swimwear competition as her secret of success. “I tried to swim a lot and do a lot of sports. I was very tall, ” Perrier said in a 2009 interview with The Times . In the same year her compatriot Christiane Martel won the title of Miss Universe . Both Perrier and Martel are the only French women who have won the beauty pageants to this day.

"The title changed my life forever," said Perrier. At the age of 19 she began to pursue a career as a photo model and later to organize fashion shows in the south of France. At the end of the 1960s she switched to the film business and was represented with small roles in French feature film productions. 1966 followed an appearance in an episode of the West German television series The Squids . Her last film role was in the James Bond film Diamond Fever (1971). At the side of Sean Connery , the dark-haired French woman was seen in a short scene as Marie, the little talkative friend of the film villain Blofeld . Bond pulls Perrier's figure in a lonely bay with a swirling grip off the bikini top and wraps it around her neck in order to squeeze information out of her.

In addition to working as a model, Perrier began painting. Her works were exhibited in public and she counted such well-known personalities as the Egyptian King Faruq or the Aga Khan to her circle of buyers. She later worked as a publicist and moved to Nice . From the 1980s she was a city councilor there for 16 years. Among other things, she organized art exhibitions and barter deals between museums. She retired in 2000.

Denise Perrier Lanfranchi is married and has one son.

Work for Miss World

As a former beauty queen, she regularly attends events organized by Miss World . At the end of November 2000 she attended a meeting of 16 former titleholders in London as part of the Miss World election. Five years later, Perrier Lanfranchi and seven other former titleholders formed the jury of the Miss World election 2005 in Sanya , China , in which the Icelander Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir triumphed. In the run-up to the beauty contest, in which the jury consisted entirely of former beauty queens for the first time, there was a dispute between some jury members and the organizers due to new voting modalities. For the first time, these had introduced a public vote, in which twelve of the 15 finalists could be selected by viewers via SMS, telephone or email. “To be able to decide, you have to see the girls. We know what to look out for, ” said Perrier Lanfranchi, who was one of those who denied qualifications to television viewers. “We can see it almost immediately. We know what separates the wheat from the chaff. The way a girl moves already shows whether she is intelligent before she opens her mouth, ” she explains.

Perrier Lanfranchi last took part in October 2010 as a juror in the 60th Miss World election in Sanya , China . There she chose, among others, together with the former titleholders Ann Sidney (Miss World 1964), Mary Stävin (Miss World 1977), Agbani Darego (Miss World 2001), María Julia Mantilla (Miss World 2004), Zhang Zilin (Miss World 2007) and Xenia Sukhinova (Miss World 2008) won the 18-year-old American Alexandria Mills .

Filmography

  • 1967: Toutes folles de lui
  • 1968: The Squids (Episode: Three Miles from Marseille )
  • 1969: Kasimir, I dread you ( Le bourgeois gentil mec )
  • 1971: Diamonds Are Forever ( Diamonds Are Forever )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d cf. Wood, Gaby: Review: the bottom line; Miss World is 50 . In: The Observer , April 15, 2001, Observer Review Pages, p. 1
  2. ↑ a b c cf. Low, Valentine: Work with children, achieve world peace ... and do some grouting . In: The Times, May 7, 2009, pp. 8-9
  3. ↑ cf. Davies, Barbara: World Class . In: The Mirror , November 29, 2000, pp. 12-13
  4. ↑ a b cf. Jewels who won the crown dating back almost half a century gather for a remarkable picture . In: Daily Mail , November 29, 2000, pp. 10-11
  5. ↑ cf. AFP : To vote or not to vote: former Miss World queens ask the question . December 9, 2005, 3:02 AM GMT (accessed January 19, 2010 via LexisNexis Wirtschaft)
predecessor Office Successor
May Louise Flodin Miss World
1953 		Antigone Costanda
personal data
SURNAME Perrier, Denise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perrier Lanfranchi, Denise (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French model and actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1935